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02-21-2019, 11:48 AM #1326
Back to the Dairyland zone for another hit it and quit it milk crate product testing night mission.
Ventured into previously sluffed out/wind affected terrain and suffered a bit on the uphill...so did the milk crates. Torque from leading edge angulated foot placements caused minor bowing and cracking in the plastic. It appears that structural reinforcement will be required for durability. Kinda thinkin' 1/8 or 1/4 thick alu L shaped beams along the leading edge will do the trick. Mods to commence shortly.
Ski quality was interesting...steep pitch with dust on ice or hard crust strewn with previous tree bomb landmines. Some pockets/turns of soft old decomposed windslab and four turns of settled old facets with 10cms of fresh on top. Fun, techy, one-turn-at-a-time skiing.
Full moon created an amazing winter ambiance...stoked to bear witness to a true highlight of winter...full moon night skiing.
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03-09-2019, 01:40 PM #1327Registered User
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03-09-2019, 06:19 PM #1328
Stunning.
Is that the King Louis face?Master of mediocrity.
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03-09-2019, 11:38 PM #1329Registered User
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03-10-2019, 08:01 AM #1330
Damn... 'tis a nice part of the neighborhood you guys live in there. Heart swells for quality of NWBC life...we really do have it all when it comes to diversity of ski terrain, snowpacks and microbreweries.
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03-10-2019, 08:32 PM #1331
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03-11-2019, 12:09 AM #1332Master of mediocrity.
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03-11-2019, 08:55 AM #1333
Snow keeps piling up in the Stewart townsite. 70cms since around noon yesterday. Town is buried.
No match for the GAME CHANGER Stewart style custom vehicle snow rake. Cleaned off our vans like it was a light Terrace dusting.
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03-20-2019, 12:37 PM #1334Registered User
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I'm scared too ask, but anyone care to inform me as to how HBM is holding up with this heat?
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03-20-2019, 07:33 PM #1335Registered User
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really good spring skiing/beer drinking
the weather site sez it isnt freezing at night but the snow is still pretty crunchy till aboiut noonLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-20-2019, 08:29 PM #1336Registered User
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03-21-2019, 08:07 AM #1337
Minus 1 @ 2000m on glaciers in the Howsons still
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03-21-2019, 09:02 AM #1338
The long wave radiation game is strong atm. Cool natural phenomena that occurs well into may/early june based on personal experience gained from past overnighter camps at altitude...I recall a ski tour camping trip on may long weekend back in 2004ish where we camped at 6 500 feet in really warm conditions. Daytime highs on solar aspects were into the low/mid teens, upper snowpack was water saturated wet grains. Night time lows only got to around 7 degrees C and we woke up with a barely supportive refreeze crust every morning.
My strategy for these conditions is work the open slope, afternoon shading, long wave radiation cooled snow. Use the google earth "show sunlight" feature to find the shadow lines on terrain of interest and time the afternoon to early evening outing to ski that specific terrain and exact ski lines to hedge bets for the best skiing feel and glide in the either micro refreezing wet grains, or, not yet refreezing but slicker skiing snow due to the arresting of the free water percolating down from the surface grains.
Factors that negate the cooling/refreeze are; obviously any cloud cover which greenhouses the snowpack, warm rock radiating heat in couloirs or at sides of open slopes, large tree trunks and longwave blocking tree canopy sections. Ideally, I look for generally polar aspect, open slopes with a bit lower angle of pitch.
Here's an example of a zone I ski in early to mid may and the ski line that hugs the shade line in the early evening. Nice little 2000 vert foot shot that always provides a tight ending to a pleasant spring day if the weather/snow stars align.
It's all about strateski, contrarskian tactics: leave late, get back home even later...here's what my spring line will look like on may 5th at 7:30pm.
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03-21-2019, 09:20 AM #1339Registered User
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03-21-2019, 06:18 PM #1340Registered User
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03-21-2019, 06:18 PM #1341
Awesome views of the Waddington and the Tiedeman Glacier on the way up north to Smithers
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03-21-2019, 09:14 PM #1342Registered User
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03-22-2019, 10:28 PM #1343
Burnie views
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03-23-2019, 09:02 AM #1344Registered User
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you and Shar are the only married couple on the Burnie trip so you would have got the " Conception room " cooler and quieter what with all that heat the Amish maid puts out but going at it like Pine Martens every night is a lot to live up to you know La
might leave you too depleted to be on the A team eh ?Last edited by XXX-er; 03-23-2019 at 12:52 PM.
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04-01-2019, 11:49 PM #1345Registered User
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Thin and getting thinner but hard freezes make for green light conditions. By my count 13 people skied the 5000 face between Friday and today, including a group who gave Lee's group a special salute on their way out from Burnie.
The 2000 or Headwall of Big Simpson. A shorter but often more interesting piece of skiing compared to the showcase 5000.
The Hour Glass. I really want to ski this line and a few others in it's vicinity. Unfortunately I only seem to find myself in this neck of the woods on my way elsewhere.Last edited by Angle Parking; 04-02-2019 at 07:30 AM.
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04-02-2019, 12:14 AM #1346Registered User
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04-02-2019, 11:34 AM #1347Registered User
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Yeah its an up route rather than a line to ski, good to see the Hourglass at extreme low tide, thinking back 4 yrs ago I can see where those rocks on the lookers right would have probably anchored the snow pack > the boot pack up the left
http://www.schussboomerdownhill.com/
On the other side of the hill we were rocking the skin suits and drinking lotsa beer, I think the Shussboomer might be the only citizen DH race left in CanadaLast edited by XXX-er; 04-02-2019 at 12:06 PM.
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04-02-2019, 03:47 PM #1348
Awesome work AP, congrats! First "D"s are a beautiful thing.
Al, they still run the over the hill in Vernon. Plan is to be skiing in the boomer again next year. Only cause I look so good in a DH suit Haha.
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04-02-2019, 05:04 PM #1349Registered User
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I heard a comment on saturday that the skin suit squeezes the massive quad muscles of old DH racers up to be redistributed around the gut, I had some shorter GS skis but I splurged on a piece of toko HF tribloc and managed to win the old guy wreckreational class
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04-03-2019, 12:33 AM #1350Registered User
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