Results 1,701 to 1,725 of 2903
Thread: Snow in the PNW 2019-20
-
02-10-2020, 07:49 PM #1701
-
02-10-2020, 08:28 PM #1702
Pretty much in the center of hemispheres, as it faces c6, just to the left of where the trees at the top of elf chutes ends, and the wide open slopes begin. That person is very lucky and our response was about as perfect as it can get. They were 5ft down, where the snow piled up at a windfeature at the bottom of the slope.
Lotta gapers up here for weekends like last. Our boundary policy if very laissez faire, you may leave, at any time as long as you have beacon, shovel, probe, partner and brains. Weekends like LBS/MLK/Presidents etc. is when the hoardes come out that somehow miss the 8ft tall multicolored sign at their entrance to the national forest.
Anyone that rides here regularly learns to get a clue. Definitely agree with the cavelier though
-
02-10-2020, 08:45 PM #1703wickstad
- Join Date
- Jan 2008
- Posts
- 1,241
-
02-10-2020, 10:16 PM #1704
Hypothetical here and for future reference. If crustal is closed, what's the uphill policy say for someone hypothetically skinning up and over bear gap from the nachos side of things?
Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
-
02-11-2020, 02:33 AM #1705Banned
- Join Date
- Feb 2013
- Location
- Highyak
- Posts
- 592
Originally Posted by KOMO
-
02-11-2020, 08:13 AM #1706
Per Scottsman, no uphill or downhill travel allowed at resort during the current closure. But anywhere outside of the ski area boundary is fair game, so still could come over Bear Gap for turns or go to Bullion Basin to get to the base.
Oh, and after saying they were opening this morning, they are still not open (no power).
-
02-11-2020, 09:14 AM #1707
-
02-11-2020, 09:17 AM #1708Registered User
- Join Date
- Dec 2010
- Posts
- 3,896
Pretty insane that an out of bounds full burial under 5' of debris was uncovered by ski patrol quickly enough for the victim to have no significant injuries. I wonder what the response was like from the victims group, and/or the person above who kicked off the avalanche.
-
02-11-2020, 09:18 AM #1709Registered User
- Join Date
- Oct 2017
- Posts
- 181
-
02-11-2020, 09:27 AM #1710
-
02-11-2020, 10:29 AM #1711Banned
- Join Date
- Feb 2013
- Location
- Highyak
- Posts
- 592
Takes one to know one, Brit.
Has everyone already forgotten about Dec. 2015 when the power was out for a week, I-90 was closed more than it was open and it snowed 9 feet in 7 days? Seems so
-
02-11-2020, 10:32 AM #1712
Sure but who's dad would win a fistfight on skis?
-
02-11-2020, 10:35 AM #1713
-
02-11-2020, 10:41 AM #1714
Yes
Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
-
02-11-2020, 10:43 AM #1715
-
02-11-2020, 10:43 AM #1716
I’m not positive, but I think he was referring to the folks having to cook over fire and deal with power outages, not property damage. No of us here are immune to being douchey.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
-
02-11-2020, 11:23 AM #1717
-
02-11-2020, 12:48 PM #1718Banned
- Join Date
- Feb 2013
- Location
- Highyak
- Posts
- 592
My dad apparently can ski switch on tele skis, so that counts for something
And I wasn't referring to the property damage and overall mess, but rather the whole whiny, "We got trapped here without power and our food was going bad and we had to cook over a fire" line from the person the news interviewed.
Power's out? Put your food in a cooler. It's not winter? Put the cooler in the creek. Cooking over a fire? Sounds nice. Some of my best life experiences have been being stranded somewhere for days. Really builds character and community. Sorry to pee on your umbrella, Brit, I hope things are okay around your place and you get the assistance you need
-
02-11-2020, 01:06 PM #1719
As far as I know from friends checking on it my place is fine, thanks.
Plenty in my neighborhood are pretty badly damaged though.
But some concern for others is always appreciated from the lofty moral highlands of the padded seats.
Even if it comes with an umbrella joke...
-
02-11-2020, 01:07 PM #1720
-
02-11-2020, 01:52 PM #1721
-
02-11-2020, 02:34 PM #1722
-
02-11-2020, 02:41 PM #1723
-
02-11-2020, 03:51 PM #1724
Going back to this...
I agree, props to BC and his colleagues. And everyone should have the patrol number saved on their phone 360-300-7070
I don't know how well you know Baker, but that guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time, yet in one of the better places in terms of being seen. Hemispheres is sandwiched between the two inbounds areas. It's a giant terrain trap, so patrol does control work in mornings, and there are eyes on it all day from the Pan Dome side.
The gate is by the top of chair 8 patrol shack, so everyone leaving the area there has ridden the chair, and they're all going to re-enter the inbounds below The Elbow on the chair 5 side or one of the many lines into Razor Hone Creek aka The Canyon, which itself is inbounds.
ETA: On a nice day Hemis can be a real shitshow.
Last edited by Ted Striker; 02-11-2020 at 04:16 PM.
-
02-11-2020, 04:08 PM #1725
Bookmarks