Official '08-'09 Midwest Chatter Thread

**Fear Of A Flat Planet** · 12-29-2008, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by pbourdon

MQT doesn't count...I rode there all through college, its still family owned, and I'd bet a substantial part of their income is derived from hundreds if not thousands of NMU students that take on a double major in "skiing/snowboarding" in addition to their regular academic classes...not hatin' on MM, I love that place, but you're comparing apples to Gaper Mountain...

wasn't comparing it to anything.. but whatever..

**pbourdon** · 12-29-2008, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by Fear Of A Flat Planet

wasn't comparing it to anything.. but whatever..

Sorry 'bout that man...its the lack of snow and the fact that I hate Crystal so much....

**Fear Of A Flat Planet** · 12-29-2008, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by pbourdon

Sorry 'bout that man...its the lack of snow and the fact that I hate Crystal so much....

ah, don't worry, theres another storm headed your way. if'n you're tired of the small michigan hills, you can always move. it's not like the economy is exactly booming in michigan, eh?

**emtnate** · 12-29-2008, 11:28 PM

Yeah, we could move. My wife and I want to get near real mountains when I'm done with school.

**pbourdon** · 12-30-2008, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by Fear Of A Flat Planet

ah, don't worry, theres another storm headed your way. if'n you're tired of the small michigan hills, you can always move. it's not like the economy is exactly booming in michigan, eh?

Its all good man, I lived out west for a couple of seasons. Spent about 6months at Stevens pass in '04-'05(never really snowed that year there) and then moved to Tahoe to work at Sugarbowl for the remainder of '05 (it was how you say...epic?) Spent all of 05-06 at the 'bowl and had a blast but began to realize with college bills rolling in that ski bumming was not really fiscally possible any more. Moved back to MI to sort out my life and got into substitute teaching and coaching soccer around here. I'm working on getting my education certification and hope to be done with that by April 2010 at which point I will promptly pack my bags for WA, or AK or any other state with good riding and available earth science teaching jobs...I love the summers here in Michigan, don't get me wrong, but fuck the winters here...they would be so much better if we had mountains, but we don't so I must leave ASAP.....

**Yukonrider** · 12-30-2008, 01:07 AM

You Michiganders (<that word is in the spell check in Firefox, wow) don't have it too bad, think of all the poor people in say Wisconsin, or Illinois, or even Indiana.

**emtnate** · 12-30-2008, 07:43 AM

At least here in Northern Indiana, the state line is only an hour away. The skiing sucks, but the biking isn't that bad. There's only 1 or 2 months out of the year the trails are too wet to ride.

**yooper** · 12-30-2008, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by emtnate

At least here in Northern Indiana, the state line is only an hour away.

Of course the disadvantage to that is... once you cross that state line, you are still in SOUTHERN Michigan.

**fonixmunkee** · 12-30-2008, 10:17 AM

Hey all...

...just put together a few people to head to the UP and hit up Bohemia this weekend.

1) Any new no-shit conditions update? Guess that don't really matter since we're heading up there no matter what...but I'm wondering how much this past week's warm weather has hosed everything.
2) Any one going to be around this weekend up there?

Originally Posted by Jer

Some parts of the backside like Pooping Vampire, Pissed-Off Mummy, Douchebag Chute and that short steep glade between those two cut runs off to the west were considerably deeper. I also poached Your Anus in the Outer Limits and that was pretty deep. There were a ton of Houghton guys there.

^^ I like those names for those runs better. A LOT.

**pbourdon** · 12-30-2008, 01:32 PM

As much as I've been grumbling about the weather on here lately, I think it would be worse to be out in Jackson, UT, or CO right now and have to look at all that terrain and good snow only to know full well that heading out there (BC) would be a bit like a game of Russian Roulette with an extra slug or two in the chamber....I hope shit settles down for the Mags out there.

**Nohillsnearby** · 01-01-2009, 06:35 PM

Bump with a who's skiing where this Saturday?

**emtnate** · 01-01-2009, 06:42 PM

My wife and I were just talking about a Swiss trip on Saturday.

**Nohillsnearby** · 01-01-2009, 06:45 PM

keep me posted. I might get out there. gotta road test the new car!

**fonixmunkee** · 01-01-2009, 10:15 PM

I'll be at Bohemia Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend. I'll be wearing gray pants with a greenish jacket, on either Pimps w/Dukes or old Elizabeths. Hit me up if you're out.

**pbourdon** · 01-02-2009, 01:59 PM

Hopefully Fonix will grace us with some photos of the Bohemia gamble. They claim that they've had 5" over night with another 3-5" on the way today, but I highly doubt it....probably more like 1-2" last night with 2-4" on the way...we'll see I guess....A friend of mine was up in the UP visiting her boyfriend and she said that Eben had about 2ft on the ground with no real crusty layer...mostly fluffy snow, but that's a ways from the Keewenaw...

In other news....THIS WEATHER SUCKS, WHERE IS THE SNOW????

**yooper** · 01-02-2009, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by pbourdon

Hopefully Fonix will grace us with some photos of the Bohemia gamble. They claim that they've had 5" over night with another 3-5" on the way today, but I highly doubt it....probably more like 1-2" last night with 2-4" on the way...we'll see I guess....A friend of mine was up in the UP visiting her boyfriend and she said that Eben had about 2ft on the ground with no real crusty layer...mostly fluffy snow, but that's a ways from the Keewenaw...

In other news....THIS WEATHER SUCKS, WHERE IS THE SNOW????

Dude.... the weather sucks because you live in FUCKIN' MUSKEGON!!! What the hell do you expect? Move North, South, or West. You basically live in the worst spot. (other than Indiana)

**Jer** · 01-02-2009, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by fonixmunkee

I'll be at Bohemia Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend. I'll be wearing gray pants with a greenish jacket, on either Pimps w/Dukes or old Elizabeths. Hit me up if you're out.

Dammit! I just got back. Did you see the idiot with the Praxis Powders? Oh wait - you're up there yet. Nevermind...

edit - Update: Boho had about 3" on top of a firmer layer (I wouldn't call it "crust") on Thu. Got about 5" of Supafluff overnite and was snowing all day today. There was also quite a bit of good snow (like knee-deep) in areas less traveled by gapers and exreme skiers. Today (Fri) was actually pretty fun. I'm guessing Fonix will probably have a pretty good time.

**pbourdon** · 01-02-2009, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by yooper

Dude.... the weather sucks because you live in FUCKIN' MUSKEGON!!! What the hell do you expect? Move North, South, or West. You basically live in the worst spot. (other than Indiana)

Nah man, it could be a lot worse...I could live on the east side of lower Michigan. Besides, its not like its been puking up north lately either...I just have to make it through the rest of this winter and all of next and then I will be once again free of the bullshit winters here in the midwest.

**yooper** · 01-02-2009, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by pbourdon

Nah man, it could be a lot worse...I could live on the east side of lower Michigan. Besides, its not like its been puking up north lately either...I just have to make it through the rest of this winter and all of next and then I will be once again free of the bullshit winters here in the midwest.

Marquette has now had 26 straight days of measurable snowfall.... But you're right.... you could live in Flint!

**pbourdon** · 01-02-2009, 06:52 PM

How much snow is in the ground in MQT right now?

**pbourdon** · 01-02-2009, 06:53 PM

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**Nohillsnearby** · 01-02-2009, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by emtnate

My wife and I were just talking about a Swiss trip on Saturday.

Trigger pulled. Swiss on Sat. Be there. I look like my avatar. Holla.

**yooper** · 01-02-2009, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by pbourdon

How much snow is in the ground in MQT right now?

Depends where you look, but I would say anywhere between 16 and 36 inches. 16 or 18 in my yard in Harvey. Up to 36 out in the woods toward Negaunee. Probably 24+ in the woods around Marquette Mountain.

There is a drift behind my garage that is about 5 feet deep.... I had plans to wrap myself up in some sort of battery powered christmas lights and huck off the roof at midnight, but it lost some of its appeal as the night wore on...

Here is a snowshoeing picture from Christmas day in my back yard. We live in a relatively low snow area.... too close to the lake.