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11-06-2019, 09:44 PM #26
Absofuckinglutely!
Thank you Djongo my friend for the finest trip ever last season!
This year I will be back in JH for a week and then a week in BS (bring sacrificial skis?).
Stoke meter is climbing and quiver is growing.
What's the typical deepness time?
Early February? (my B-Day in the 7th!).
edit: Page top bitches!
In search of the elusive artic powder weasel ...
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11-06-2019, 10:03 PM #27
I’ll be up (mostly w wife and kids) for couple weeks Xmas/nye, last week of March, plus a couple other shorter trips mid winter. The twin daughters (12) are stoked to break into the backcountry, Corbets etc. Look forward to connecting w schwerty again and whoever else is around... it’ll be our 20th consecutive year and hopefully many deep days will be had.
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11-06-2019, 10:17 PM #28frothing and fishy
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Thanks for the tips and stoke. Gonna brave the intimidating ikonics wave last week of March before it becomes tidal. Haven't been since 98 from the east coast and now dumb enough to drive it from the PNW. I hope its not 50° and boilerplate 7/8ths of the day again when I get in town. Fingers crossed. Alarms will be set for 5am each morn.
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11-06-2019, 10:19 PM #29
Playing it fast and loose but definately thinking a long weekend is in order.
Bunny Don't Surf
Have you seen a one armed man around here?
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11-07-2019, 12:15 AM #30
Hey DJ, nice intro to the season. I'll definitely be over there with the new bionic hip - maybe as early as mid December. Got my 7-day plus pass so I'll be looking to get some of those "free" days in before the holidays! I'll look you mags up and we can get in some laps.
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11-07-2019, 07:25 AM #31
Jackson Hole 2019-2020 - & The 'Ghee, The King, Kelly Canyon, Pebble Creek
Left the ghee one morning
We did not like the iceee
Mag pics showed JH pow
Hard to believe only 12 miles
Went to JH at 1 that same day
Met dudes in the lot
Got us some $20 passes
Used the leftover tie wraps
Hit the big red one
Out the gate at 2
Skied 4K of killer pow
Best $20 that day for sure
Only time in life where I
skied two resorts in one day
Buddy did not believe me
But he could not doubt JH
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsI need to go to Utah.
Utah?
Yeah, Utah. It's wedged in between Wyoming and Nevada. You've seen pictures of it, right?
So after 15 years we finally made it to Utah.....
Thanks BCSAR and POWMOW Ski Patrol for rescues
8, 17, 13, 18, 16, 18, 20, 19, 16, 24, 32, 35
2021/2022 (13/15)
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11-07-2019, 07:58 AM #32
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11-07-2019, 08:09 AM #33
Here’s to the best season ever, and lots of pics and stories for The Ski Bum Diaspora.
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11-07-2019, 09:46 AM #34
Stoked for another year of doing dumb stuff in the hills!
And on that note, here's a TR from a little walk from Teton to Death Canyon on ski blades last weekend.
http://the-hoo.blogspot.com/2019/11/...-traverse.html
Maybe not enough snow to really ski yet, but plenty to get stoked!
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11-07-2019, 10:38 AM #35
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11-07-2019, 01:09 PM #36
Ever since I learned to ski,( ca. 1978, mid-atlantic), I like to get up early and see how much snow fell overnight. Initially it was in hopes that school was closed. Nowadays snow in the driveway at all, means more at the hill, so then I'll check the computer for the hourly totals.
I am an early riser by my work schedule anyway. Driving out to the Vill with almost zero traffic, snowy roads and then getting there and parking front row is a dividend for sure.
I may take 3 safety meetings at the car before the lifts fire off. But standing in a foot+ of pow at the base before the final cat groom, in the dark, smoking a bowl, as the first workers roll by to the box, is bliss for me
Trollers on bomb and gun crews prepping for route avy control. They know it's me. 'I'll see you guys later, find me...'
And then there is the first tracks thing. There's freshies, and then there's firsties. Not the same.
First down the Hobacks, RS, the Dark side, or the Cooler. Each is a run to remember. Run of a lifetime for most. Hobacks south boundary after a windy 20" overnight dump will treat you to about 3k vert with a single black pitch varying in depth from 12"-40". And nary a track for acres. Mindmelting.
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Baby Bear - where was my head? thanks for fixing my example. Smokeshax: RJ's hut, Big Red, Sherwood Forest, the Cooler Cave, Hoback cave/Blueroom, Eagle's nest, the back porch, The Bench, Whynot rock, Kung Fu shak (Bruce lee's), Gumby woods, Poma Palace, the Crown.
Not the Haute Route, but the Hut route. Let's take a lap. And ask SkiJunky if he's ready to sell me those sweet Line protos he was on last year...
I'm on the weed wagon for a few more weeks, when the season begins. Sure coulda used a toke last night upon hearing of baby girl Oreo's passing though. That hit me so hard, it felt like I was holding my chin out there for a Mike Tyson hook.
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11-07-2019, 01:17 PM #37
Thanks for starting this thread- you’re the perfect one.
We’re looking forward to a great season!Ski Shop - Basement of the Hostel
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain
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11-07-2019, 01:21 PM #38
DJ thanks for the compliment and I look forward to hanging again with more time getting to know ya. Alpy for sure (if you make it) and maybe I can pull off JH this year. Great stoke and hope you have a fruitful season!! Gitsum all you JH heads
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11-07-2019, 01:42 PM #39
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11-07-2019, 04:02 PM #40
Hell yes! Pic 1 going into the Couloir cave. Seen people auger going in right there, smack the wall, overestimate the entry slot, come in hot and have to bail only to realize the out is an air from 10-30 feet depending.
Oh, the comedy of skiing.
Pic 2 - a true JH testpiece, Horseshoe couloir; the unseen rock below is sometimes a slight ski over, often 10-20 feet though. Prolly Passholer and Supergaper ski that on the regular. A stellar start into Granite: 7 dwarfs, ABC chutes, the Needle...
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11-07-2019, 05:50 PM #41
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11-07-2019, 07:20 PM #42
This season is gonna be weird for me. Why?
Cuz BabyBear corrected me that OPENING DAY IS TURKEY DAY THIS YEAR. I had said it was the Saturday after. I hope I'm not 48 hrs behind everything...dangit.
They have been jockeying the opening day for about a decade now.
edit: and they're saying JHMR has 41" for the season already. Fucking marketing clowns.
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11-07-2019, 07:43 PM #43
only wanted to note that we could ski earlier than previous expectations- yea!
and also noted that the season goes a touch longer than normal- closing day scheduled for Sun 4/12- typically more towards the beginning of april, so I am excited as the skiing is often still great thenskid luxury
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11-07-2019, 09:07 PM #44
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11-08-2019, 12:41 PM #45
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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11-08-2019, 02:14 PM #46
I don't think the vill could make it to July, at least with any semblance of a decent product.
But they could make the end of May pretty much guaranteed every year, which is painful to see every spring.
They blame animal migration, which is true in the sense that tourists aren't migrating here for a week's vacation after mid-March.
That all being said, the tram opens up a week before Memorial Day and offers up some excellent high mountain skiing for a month or so usually. Some years all the way to the base. Twice in my 14 years here, they were pow days. Spectacular days.
I've also skied the ghee on July 4th. Able to catch a festival at the same time. That was kickass.Live Free or Die
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11-08-2019, 03:37 PM #47
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11-08-2019, 03:48 PM #48
It's true, South Hoback after a southerly storm is ah-mazing.
Last time we went, there was 42" that closed the mountain and my wife and I beelined for firsties on S. Hoback first thing next morning, chewing it the whole way down.
Last day of that trip, got heavily hassled and groped by patrol for coming out of Rock Springs after we'd signed out at the top (way before open boundaries became a thing). That was it for us.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
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11-08-2019, 03:51 PM #49
Rock Springs was way better when it was illegal.
dirtbag, not a dentist
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11-08-2019, 03:56 PM #50
I think it was '94 and they had this sign out mechanism, so we signed out and did 4 shadows, cody bowl from the top, Green River, watched boarders shoot the closet slots on noname, then Rock Springs and traversed out and got BUSTED and shaken down by some massive asshole patrol right at the bottom feeder from S. Hoback to the poma.
Never went back.
Before the Sublette quad, we used to skate from the top of Thunder around to hit Bird in the Hand, Cherry Slide, Alta Chutes, Pepis, etc, all barely skied ever.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
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