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Thread: Eastside Conditions Thread

  1. #726
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    [QUOTE=jskierpx;4957956]Mammoth is absolutely burried right now. More snow than is even in the Norden/Soda Springs area. Got to enjoy some sun and one day in the resort with one day BC around Red Cone Bowl. Fired up for the spring!



    Nice we were admiring your turns from afar

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    Those Cochise you got coming had their first turns on Chair 23. They'll be right at home at ol Mammy
    sproing!

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    Norman Clyde from Thursday. Snow was mostly crap, but what a line.

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    Good stuff boys
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

  6. #731
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    Nice job and sweet photos, whatsupdoc!

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    Skied Birch on Wednesday. What a hill! Found just about every type of snow from affected powder to quite a bit of breakable on the bottom flanks of the mountain.

    Tinemaha and Birch seeing full sun early in the day. Pictures simply do not do justice of the scale.

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    Looking at the N face of Tinemaha, Cardinal in the back, the N couloirs looked amazing from this vantage and Split.

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    A couple shots of the Palisade Crest, the Sierra interior and to the north from the summit of Birch.

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    Not a great shot but proof of decent quality snow above 13k+

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    This shot gives a bit of scale with the shadows of the mountains and how far down the snow line/car are. This is well below the summit.

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    Thursday: With our asses fully kicked we got an extremely leisurely start and actually found some corn to farm for a couple laps on a slightly smaller hill.

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    First corn turns of the season...may as well do another.

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  8. #733
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    Excellent stuff.
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    Big day, somethingclever! I believe someone here did Tinemaha that day.

    In late January, whatsupdoc and I spied a non-guidebook couloir from Mt. Tom that looked, well, incredible. 5,500+ vertical feet! It also looked a lot better than the better known guidebook line. I thought about it. A lot.


    So whatsupdoc, BS, and I arrived at the trailhead the night before and bivied in our respective vehicles. Fun Fact: An iPhone in airplane mode will update the time at daylight savings at 2 a.m. Unfun Fact: Daylight saving's time is terrible. Anyhow, we agreed to a 3:30 a.m. wake-up time yesterday's time. But I messed up my iPhone timer and woke whatsupdoc and BS up at 3:30 a.m. today's time. We booted from the car.

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    Why, hello there, Mt. Tom's north ridge.


    The very bottom was not-quite frozen shit snow, but it was otherwise pretty efficient booting. Unfortunately, we decided to follow a line that had nice snow but, 800 vertical feet or so later, reached a crux with some blue ice and mixed climbing. Whatsupdoc downclimbs after discovering the limits of aluminum crampons and a lightweight ice axe.


    So we skied down and booted up another line that went to the top but had more debris. More booting.


    Sadly, we had to turn around a few hundred feet from the top because it was 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the snow was getting a little sketchy. It was 10 a.m. (I don't remember whether it was 10 a.m. yesterday or today's time.) The top part was maybe 40 degrees.



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    Conditions were actually pretty good. I'd say it was 80% corn, 10% manageable debris, and 10% shitshow debris.


    It actually wasn't that steep. The top was maybe 40 degrees but most of it was in the low 30's. And long.


    So long.


    So very, very long.


    Long and pretty.


    Huh.


    And we've reached the 10% shitshow portion of the descent. In fact, in a frightening moment, whatsupdoc broke through a crevasse-like bit of snow and nearly down an 18-foot sub-snow waterfall. Thankfully he wedged/chimneyed himself above the abyss and lost only a pair of sunglasses.


    There's often a point in a tour when I forsake all sense of style and grace and simply try to get downhill without hurting myself (survival skiing), whether with a massive power wedge/pizza, long traverses with exaggerated jump turns, etc. This was one of those times.


    6,400 feet of couloir and a very good day.


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    That line looks out fucking standing.
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    Great looking line for sure. Good work fellas

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    Quote Originally Posted by AKbruin View Post
    Huh.
    hmmm, i wonder how long it takes to sidestep 4k vertical
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    Bravo
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

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    Nice!

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    Wow, nice line!

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    I'm really looking forward to spring and summer Eastside skiing with young Owen.
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

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    worth getting up at 3:30 for
    off your knees Louie

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    Sweet guys!!!!

  19. #744
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    Absofuckinglutely crazy long coolies and big ass mountains. Fuck the hippy pow I've been skiing I want some of that action!
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    Nice write up AKbruin. Some pics:




















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    Quote Originally Posted by AKbruin View Post
    Nice work fellas!
    Just found some IG posts that show some dude's hitting this line a week or so ago.

  23. #748
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    nice roadside coolies

    thx for the TR

  24. #749
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    There are so many beautiful lines in the pine creek drainage....

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