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Thread: SNOW IN THE PNW 2010!
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12-28-2010, 06:54 PM #751
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12-28-2010, 07:11 PM #752.
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12-28-2010, 09:02 PM #753
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12-28-2010, 09:07 PM #754
tomorrow is gonna be nuts. and Thursday. And Friday.
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12-28-2010, 09:14 PM #755
Is chair 2 of alpy safe from the crust? It was awful lower down...
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12-28-2010, 09:21 PM #756
no, equally awful.
so resort skiing in wa is going to suck for the next few days, but weather looks good to get some touring in. any ideas on what might be good and not have the crust? even paradise telemetry at 5500 shows a good amount of rain from early this morning.
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12-28-2010, 09:39 PM #757Registered User
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I was hoping to get a few days of good hiking around the area later this week during the high pressure. One of the benefits of the storm shifting more southward is that we got colder after the warming earlier and with less rain overall. Up to ~4500 was rained on and will be crusty, but the top half of the area stayed decently cold.
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12-28-2010, 10:24 PM #758
Big thanks to Steve on the 191 lhasa's and his crew Paul and I'm sorry but I'm not sure about the other guys name. First day at xtal and no way would I have found the shots we skied without being shown the way. Just goes to show that if you're at a new resort just follow the dudes on bros and you'll get the goods.
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12-28-2010, 10:49 PM #759Registered User
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Good people up there. And thanks to Mike from Tacoma, who gave me a beer on the Rex lift to share with his 2 buddies (um I mean we each got our own). That was the highlight of my day actually, aside from all the kill powder I slayed in the AM.
BTW - am considering Crystal, or maybe less crowded White Pass trees tomorrow. Or maybe stay home and hide from the masses.
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12-29-2010, 12:18 AM #760
Summit Snow-phone propaganda called this "Variable Conditions" and they lured a lot of people in by acting upbeat about it but never giving the actual info.
Took one lap, then bailed. Swore the whole way home I'd NEVER check Snow-phone or conditions on their website again. I got suckered.
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12-29-2010, 02:17 AM #761
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12-29-2010, 09:10 AM #762"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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12-29-2010, 09:35 AM #763
We ride down through the trees until you hit the old railroad grade/pct trail. From there it's a perfectly flat 15 minute skin back to the parking lot. The only problem is that you need a pretty good base for the lower treed section to be skiable due to the high amount of slide alder. It's just now getting filled in.
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12-29-2010, 10:01 AM #764
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12-29-2010, 11:40 AM #765.
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12-29-2010, 03:32 PM #766doughboyshredder Guest
just got back from an hour or two up on the hill. Skipped out on alpy and hit silver fir. Ice layer is bad on anything even remotely not flat. New snow is getting deep, but it's so dry that it's not helping at all.
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12-29-2010, 04:02 PM #767Registered User
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It's getting deeep in NW Montuckistan, wind blew 2 feet of snow into the trees and non North facing slopes. Ten degrees throughout the whole strorm, just sick sick pow, crust is gone.
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12-29-2010, 05:17 PM #768Registered User
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I wish I had gone out today, but some errands popped up... Bluebird mass pow! I'm sure the lift lines were significant tho. Crystal and White Pass, blessed are those who made it (based on radar last night).
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12-29-2010, 06:01 PM #769
best day i've had in years up at Mt Spokane today. got sick of the wind up at Schweitzer the last few days and decided to mix things up. even with the mountain losing power at 1130 i got more good turns in than i have in the last two years it seems. a nice reminder of why i live for this sport.
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12-29-2010, 06:23 PM #770
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12-29-2010, 06:30 PM #771Registered User
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Dry sunny and cold tomorrow for sure, flurries tonight. Spokane rocked, eh? Nice to hear. Haven't been there, I'm told 49 degrees has better tree runs? Love Schweitzer, it treated me so well last year - but constantly whited out and windy. They can get some wicked quality snow though.
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12-29-2010, 06:32 PM #772
This is what it's been like at Mission everyday for the past two weeks-
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaGlunif0KU"]YouTube - mo slomo at Mission Ridge[/nomedia]
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjQtkqzjUhc&feature=related"]YouTube - slomo in paradise[/nomedia]
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12-29-2010, 06:39 PM #773Registered User
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anybody ski alpental late in the day today?
is there enough snow to stay above the crust?
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12-29-2010, 07:02 PM #774
yes... and sometimes.
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A mixed bag of faceshots and scraping loud snow with a bit of uncertainty on which you would get on the next turn. Super light stuff, it's going to take another 10" to bury the crust on the steeper stuff. Still 1,000,000x better than Tuesday which may have been all time on the suck meter.
FlowingAlpy, I'm inviting myself over to watch the Holiday Bowl tomorrow night.Move upside and let the man go through...
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12-29-2010, 07:26 PM #775Registered User
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were the bc gates open/worth skiing?
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