Results 1,776 to 1,800 of 2628
Thread: 14/?? The OFFICIAL Tahoe Thread
-
02-10-2015, 08:40 PM #1776WestCoastPDR Guest
14/?? The OFFICIAL Tahoe Thread
Yes. North side. I thought it was a little risky too with all the loading and the cornice's along the ridge. Decided to ski off the ridge to the East. Tons of sled necks high marking. It's nice that they stayed away from the rocks / small chutes. Greats snow and still skied great at 12:30 on my last lap. Didn't see anything moving, cracking or hear any whomping. Was very warm and I could see some wet slides happen tomorrow or Thursday with the daytime warming.Last edited by WestCoastPDR; 02-10-2015 at 10:14 PM.
-
02-10-2015, 08:49 PM #1777
we did get a few unfettered turns in though
powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
-
02-10-2015, 08:50 PM #1778Registered User
- Join Date
- May 2010
- Location
- large triangle
- Posts
- 278
-
02-10-2015, 09:36 PM #1779
As someone who is frequently attempting to "Work from Chairlift", much like the past two days... bout fucking time.
Upper Beav and Idiots opened at around Noon today. Got 2 laps in before things got heavy. The rest of the mountain stayed surprisingly chalky all day, winds were definitely keeping the temps down.
thefrush, I think we were on opposite cycles the entire day, either saw you heading up or heading down, and I was having too much to wait, sorry. :P Also saw Wobby in his technicolor dream coat.
-
02-10-2015, 11:49 PM #1780
-
02-10-2015, 11:53 PM #1781Registered User
- Join Date
- Oct 2013
- Location
- CA
- Posts
- 195
I hit upper Beaver shortly after it opened, good stuff. I'm probably in that picture, the guy bent over about to puke. I don't have Tahoe lungs at the moment.
Agreed that the chalky-ness lasted pretty much all day and everywhere we went skied surprisingly well, save for semi-sketchy traverse to High(?) Yellow.
-
02-11-2015, 04:03 AM #1782
I think they close terrain because they don't want people to ski on it.
-
02-11-2015, 09:01 AM #1783Banned
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
- Location
- Reno
- Posts
- 1,344
Good thing they opened it at fucking noon after things warmed up!!!. It would have been dangerous anytime before that :sarcasm: I had a group of buddies that took the morning off to ride AM with hopes it would be open. Whoever runs mountain operations at AM has large amounts of sand in their vag. They need someone with some balls making the decisions around there.
-
02-11-2015, 09:12 AM #1784
Rode up with Patrol in the morning and asked if it and/or Estelle would open. They said the winds/rain had made the backside a sheet of glass and they had to wait a bit to cut a road in, otherwise people could slide off the back. He wasn't sure if they were gonna get it open that day, so I appreciate the effort even if it was later than we would have liked.
When I was traversing over around noon, there was a female snowboarder who had fell and was literally being held by another snowboarder, while patrol used a shovel to chop up the snow around them. So I think there concerns were definitely valid.
They also said Estelle wasn't gonna open as the bottom is burnt and they can't get a toboggan down.
Yeah that was pretty damn sketchy (similar to parts of the High Beav traverse). Someone apparently took a slide for life over there and hit a tree. Got choppered out around 3pm.
-
02-11-2015, 09:23 AM #1785
Good call on hitting the slopes above Red Lake. Up higher most of RT is covered with an ice layer...and then firm windpack on top of that. There is decent skiing around the ice patches (pebbly clear ice) but I think even where there is a nice layer of 2-8 (or more) inches of windpack, there is an ice layer underneath...not a crust...ice. What will happen to that as the slopes transition to corn conditions? Disturbing.
Last edited by Baaahb; 02-11-2015 at 09:35 AM.
It's not my fault you can't telemark.
-
02-11-2015, 09:34 AM #1786
I love when people like you who know nothing about snow safety and running a mountain spew about what patrol should do. Maybe you should get some balls and ask a patroller what's up. Go unto the office and complain. Maybe you'll learn something. Sorry but it's not just about you and your bros.
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
-
02-11-2015, 09:35 AM #1787Torn Edge
- Join Date
- Dec 2007
- Location
- Tahoe
- Posts
- 92
I was over high yellow to get to Our Father. It turned out to be easier, safer, to hike up on the ridge, but even there it was icy booting. In places that gator back ice was so difficult to edge, you just had to calculate how much vert you were going to lose, and aim for some chalk somewhere below you. I once lost my edge and just tried to sideslip on a fall line that had no trees or rocks below. You can start in a walled chute with chalk and powder, and ski to the second half which is gator back ice. good to scope it first, when that's possible.
-
02-11-2015, 10:18 AM #1788
-
02-11-2015, 10:21 AM #1789
-
02-11-2015, 10:33 AM #1790((. The joy I get from skiing...
.))
((. That's worth living for.
.))
-
02-11-2015, 10:42 AM #1791Torn Edge
- Join Date
- Dec 2007
- Location
- Tahoe
- Posts
- 92
-
02-11-2015, 10:53 AM #1792
The situation in Europe gives much greater importance to personal responsibility and decision making, but I cannot give you a legal analysis.Here, there are a lot of skier/snowboarder/snowmobiler injuries that are settled or are sued but do not get reported in the press.
It's not my fault you can't telemark.
-
02-11-2015, 11:42 AM #1793
I guess my more exact question was:
- is it more likely closed due to bad coverage, because that probably won't improve over the next days
or
- is it close due to avy danger/no patrolling done yet because that will change over the course of the week.
My apologies for the initial dumb question...
-
02-11-2015, 03:12 PM #1794
Let me join the chorus of people who think you are an idiot. Patrol shoveled a track through the boiler plate to make the traverse reasonably safe. I hope if you saw a patroller you thanked them for the effort but somehow I doubt you did. High Beaver traverse is where a snowboarder slid to her death trying to retrieve the board she dropped. In the last half dozen years or so two patrollers have died trying to make the slopes safe for the likes of you, which strikes me as a huge waste.
A run may close because of bad coverage, avy danger, hasn't been controlled yet, too icy, running a free ride event, the only lift out of there is broken or too windy to run it, poor visibility, trying to keep the corn in good shape (high T at AM, smoothie at SV in the spring). I could probably think of a few more if I tried. Which is more common? this year definitely not avy danger. IME and IMO patrollers are avid skiers--they damn well better be for the shit they get paid-- and they like to open the good stuff whenever they can. Rumor has it that they once tried to open Tram Face but closed it after spending the morning doing technical rescues.
-
02-11-2015, 04:24 PM #1795Banned
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
- Location
- Reno
- Posts
- 1,344
Ur all pussies. Go to Chamonix once in your lives.
-
02-11-2015, 04:39 PM #1796
But on a serious note, the Summit Chair isn't the fucking Midi, so what's your point?
-
02-11-2015, 04:45 PM #1797Banned
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
- Location
- Reno
- Posts
- 1,344
Nope. I was too busy walking the ridge where it was smooth as an ice rink. Snowboarders don't use the traverse. And wow, a patroller used a shovel. A real american hero. Your average lift op isn't impressed. Patrollers have a hard job but no one forces them to do it and some outfits are heads and shoulders above others. i.e. Squaw vs AM ski patrol. I see a lot of older dudes with beer bellies at AM.
My point is they don't shut down the mountain because a gaper might lose their footing.
-
02-11-2015, 05:29 PM #1798Registered User
- Join Date
- Apr 2006
- Location
- SF & the Ho
- Posts
- 9,428
-
02-11-2015, 05:35 PM #1799
-
02-11-2015, 06:06 PM #1800
Yes
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
Bookmarks