Alaska 2014-2015 Conditions & Stoke Thread

[Mike_Records]

A place to post conditions, observations, stoke, and adventures from the 49th state. As goldenboy once said, "maybe Ullr has been waiting for this thread to start snowing, rather than us waiting for snow to start this thread."

Got up to the Jewel today. Seems the rest of Alaska had already been there. Looking across the Milk at the awesome west wall of Goat Mountain.


Despite all the traffic, no one had hit the headwall above the Jewel.


Approximately a two foot base on the Jewel. Managed to ski all the way back down to the parking lot with the exception of a few short walking sections. Observed slides on suncrusts, depth hoar, and the ground. Primarily on south and west aspects. Lots of crossloading in the Crow Creek drainage.

[Franz]

SICK!
Nothing worth skiing in WY. Yet. Consider this an official attempted thread hijack.

[the_big_lepowski]

Got four days in a row in early october thanks to a couple of storms that came through Fairbanks. It's been slow lately though

[adrenalated]

Dear Mike,

You suck.

[Chugachjed]

Why did I have to move to Seattle!!! WHY!

[ak_powder_monkey]

Cry me a river Jed doesn't Baker have like 150 inches already?

[Mike_Records]

Dear Mike,

You suck.

Dear Jeff, this thread is meant solely as a place that Franz and I can blow up your favorite and most secret surfs spots.

[Franz]

Adrenalated hearts keystone. It snows like 700" a year there.

[adrenalated]

Please don't blow up Keystone, they really do have fantastic groomers.

Now post more AK pics you punter. For instance, did you ski back down or just wallow around in the snow?

[Chugachjed]

Cry me a river Jed doesn't Baker have like 150 inches already?

Baker is lame with all the rain and it's too far. The snow is above the lifts anyhow I don't have enough time to go deep.

[Lindahl]

Now post more AK pics you punter. For instance, did you ski back down or just wallow around in the snow?

This

[Lindahl]

Baker is lame with all the rain and it's too far. The snow is above the lifts anyhow I don't have enough time to go deep.

Baker is pretty lame... way better mountains out of WA.

[cat in january]

Nice to see winter. It has been real slow peaking around these parts.

Wait Jed you moved to Seattle? What I saw of Alaska that would be a hard state to leave so long as you could find work.

[Chugachjed]

My wife is getting her phd so we're here for 4-5 years.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Paging Carpathian. Please return to tgr, Carpathian.

[abraham]

Isn't he in Hawaii now?

[Chugachjed]

Pretty sure Carpathian is in Girdwood. Was last time I checked.

[abraham]

Pretty sure Carpathian is in Girdwood. Was last time I checked.

Oh Maybe I got confused I thought somewhere he said he'd moved.

[Franz]

Now post more AK pics you punter. For instance, did you ski back down or just wallow around in the snow?

Thirded

[ak_powder_monkey]

Oh Maybe I got confused I thought somewhere he said he'd moved.

he was in Maui, not sure his current location

[Mike_Records]

Now post more AK pics you punter. For instance, did you ski back down or just wallow around in the snow?

This

Thirded

Sorry gentlemen, but the lack of skiing pictures is because I do not currently own a camera. I think it fell out of a helicopter. I have some stuff from last season I have yet to dig thru, will post it up soon.

[Mike_Records]

Still catching up on last winter's adventures. In light of the snow that's coming, here's a quick blog post from last March at the Snowbird.

[the_big_lepowski]

Some stoke from last weekend to get you off the couch this weekend

[Mike_Records]

Some stoke from last weekend to get you off the couch this weekend

Cool! Wanna give any insight with ~50 km of where that is? Or is the first picture the hint?

[the_big_lepowski]

Picture #1 would be a good hint if you had intimate knowledge of the Delta Range *hint*