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11-28-2016, 07:22 PM #101
Some good vis today. Patrol got little results from control so they let us have at er. Glory peak laps from the t-bar walking up, a bit firmer in the alpine where it was exposed, still plenty of pow. Only thing I could get to move was on w cirque high, feels solid. More difficult than usual entrance in to Excitation. Spun a couple easy laps off Harmony when they cracked it. Don't see them getting the peak open tomorrow, lots of work to be done. From what I saw it was fairly slow up there today
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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11-28-2016, 08:51 PM #102Registered User
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they let you hike up to peak with unrestricted access to everything? didn't think they'd allow sullying of the product for the masses. i would have lapped shale slope and wrecked it for everyone. surprised they got no results after this dump
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11-28-2016, 09:38 PM #103
What an opening week. Finally slowed down today so a bit of catch up could be done. Nice to see the sun come out. Beautiful sunrise and sunset, it's hard to forget days like today. Big payoff for anyone who got their sweat on.
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11-29-2016, 12:16 AM #104
got my work done today, hoping to grovel for scraps tomorrow morning for a few hours
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11-29-2016, 12:21 PM #105
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11-29-2016, 02:32 PM #106
Well that was lit... taken me a while to chime in here, and I'm more or less speechless. Seems most people have already covered the main points.
This looks to keep up for the foreseeable future too!! I'm excited.The skills of evaluating evidence, posing questions and answering them, of writing, of mobilizing information in order to make an argument. I think all of that is important in a democratic society if people are actually going to be active citizens - Eric Foner
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11-29-2016, 02:38 PM #107
They got a size 3.5 off the Hanging Roll from heli bombing on Thurs or Friday last week, good pics on Wayne Flann's blog. In the few years I've been around, I've never seen them try to limit early season in-bounds touring to "save" it for chair openings or weekends... which is pretty awesome in my books and I hope nothing changes operations wise with Vail.
I will also use this post to make my annual comment about how awesome it would be if the entire alpine was just hike/skinning access.
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11-29-2016, 02:42 PM #108
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11-29-2016, 03:33 PM #109Registered User
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So they literally told you you could go wherever you wanted in all of the terrain accessible from top of peak chair? I must have the worst luck ever.
Every time I try to tour inbounds early season, I always somehow get screwed by patrollers that don't know wtf is going on. One patroller will tell us that we can tour in an area and then we'll get there and another will tell us avy control is about to start and we need to get out of there, or we'll be told that the lifts won't be running in a certain area and that we can tour there and then all of a sudden the lifts start running and we're the retards skinning up a run that the lift-served hordes are shredding. Or like on Sunday, a patroller told us that all of Harmony and Symphony/Flute would be off limits for the whole day for AC, but apparently you were allowed into Harmony... BASTARDS!!
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11-30-2016, 07:10 AM #110
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11-30-2016, 12:21 PM #111Registered User
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12-01-2016, 02:54 PM #112
Anyone got the scoop on Blackcomb alpine lifts and Symphony? Making weekend plans and kind of hoping they stay closed...
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12-01-2016, 03:06 PM #113Registered User
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12-01-2016, 03:10 PM #114Banned
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12-01-2016, 08:29 PM #115Registered User
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Absolutely, it gave me enough time to calm down and collect myself.
Big day, lots of side/bc.
Friends went home.
Really tired but, but I need one last run. Searching for the soft, nobody's been over here.
Flopped over in a bad spot. Could have been bad.
We've all done it.
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12-01-2016, 09:49 PM #116
Ski quality average. Fast light snow on SE facing slopes with ski pen approx 30cms on Flute Shoulder. Also blower on N facing slopes on Oboe with coverage fat at 1900m and then creeks showing at 1700m; quite the variation.
Hint of windslab on Nfaces which then became a stout supportive slab below a wind and powder skin on NW slopes on Lesser Flute reentering ski area. Still fun fast snow.
Its so obvious as to not need be stated but conditions down low would be character building. Cornices already large! Winds light from SE. Temps - 5.
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12-01-2016, 11:08 PM #117
Was in the same areas. Nice of the sunshine to poke out long enough and often enough to keep viz good. Very fun day.
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12-02-2016, 05:11 PM #118
^^ Nice pics Lee, looks like a stellar day. Probably going out that way on Sunday depending on the weather.
Looks like no alpine lifts due to wind today, but not really any snow falling either. Debating sandbagging the company xmas party tonight to ski tomorrow but maybe i'll just wait and tour Sunday.
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12-02-2016, 05:37 PM #119Registered User
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ha, same dilemma here with work xmas party. i was thinking of getting into the spearhead zone if it's sunny on sunday. anyone know what alpine lifts are supposed to open on bcomb?
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12-03-2016, 01:15 PM #120
Glacier and Seventh are running now fyi. Pretty windy from SE
Some condtions from Duffey
195cms HS at 1850m and -3 deg. Right side up snowpack. 5-10cms of fist (probably some wind transport as it hadn't snowed that much. Top 5-10 was reactive with CTE and CTM results on a N facing 32deg slope resistant planar. Nil reactions below with pronounced MF layer 65cms down.
Ski quality acceptable with supportive stout crust at approx 1550m elevation but not enough to trip you up.
Creek crossing from Pascall over Cerise Crk is character building.
Winds light to moderate gusts from SW. Snowing lightly.
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12-03-2016, 01:18 PM #121
Pic for above
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12-03-2016, 03:14 PM #122Minion
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couldn't make it up today...did they open spankys?
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12-03-2016, 06:27 PM #123
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12-03-2016, 07:37 PM #124Registered User
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12-03-2016, 11:35 PM #125
Spankys was skiing ok. Coverage was quite good at the top, but many parts wind affected. Was temp boundary.
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