2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

**ill-advised strategy** · 02-12-2021, 12:09 AM

I don’t even know TJ, a lot. I mean, the lake was unseasonably warm and it’s just blasting -20 air over it for 5 days now. Plus a week ago it was puking warm wet system snow too. Big week.

**Mustonen** · 02-12-2021, 05:28 AM

Originally Posted by skiJ

' Glad you could be there i-as ! !!

not-easy to catch conditions like that...

( how much snowfall have they had in the last week ? ? ( looks like almost four feet ))

congratulations ! ( You deserve it ( And you have earned it ) ) skiJ

Facebook says 51”.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Super nice conditions. Soft and smooth about everywhere, lots of untracked lines. Barely felt the cold. Had a great time skiing with IAS...

**skiJ** · 02-12-2021, 01:40 PM

we had a couple days like that at lutsen almost thirty years ago ( 1994, I believe ) -

Moose mountain was fourteen minute and sixteen minute Riblet rides...
it was Cold ( -24F to -14F ) , but we were dressed for it and I do not remember being cold.

stayed at Mountain Inn on ski hill road - spent two days trying to get the car started ; eventually had to get it towed and parked inside for four hours to get it started -

. . . Good old days . . . skiJ

**Wrecked** · 02-12-2021, 07:45 PM

/Best Midwest thread ever/

I’ll be at otsego tomorrow.

Drinking beer at the river cabin between runs...

**uglymoney** · 02-13-2021, 03:32 PM

JW sighting in the lower midwestern hemispherical ski belt. Couple laps then he had to go sell himself to the devil with his picture taking skills. So cold today so far until the sun came out.

I realize after Yetiman's all time post this stoke is like bringing a gherkin to a cucumber party but it is the best I can do.

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**buttahflake** · 02-13-2021, 03:55 PM

Looks awesome, nice dry packed powder, and a good pitch. You guys are hardcore, how cold was it?

**uglymoney** · 02-13-2021, 04:41 PM

Minus 6 with wind. Not terrible.

Sun came out this afternoon. JW rises.

**axebiker** · 02-14-2021, 06:18 PM

Everything pretty much closed on Sunday in the MSP area. I was "cool" with that. 10 years ago, I might have been a bit salty, but not so much now.

**yeahman** · 02-14-2021, 07:07 PM

Loving the pics in this thread...looks like you guys are having a great winter.

**Leftyt** · 02-14-2021, 08:42 PM

Midwest stoke on high alert!

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**BmillsSkier** · 02-14-2021, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by been in it

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spring corn days were the best
afternoons were country club skiing
almost no lines
almost no one on the hill

Holy shit, I know those places well. That takes me way back.

Originally Posted by Leftyt

Midwest stoke on high alert!

Yep. Killer stuff in here boys. Glad I checked back in to see who's minding the store.

**skuff** · 02-14-2021, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by uglymoney

Minus 6 with wind. Not terrible.

Sun came out this afternoon. JW rises.

Well done

**ill-advised strategy** · 02-16-2021, 07:48 PM

Skiing from Mohawk, near the awkwardly-named Gay Mohawk road in fact, for a few days if anyone else is up here. The dump machine is offline, but we’re now at butter Cadillac not-hitting-shit full coverage. I had a double-heel today and had to fight around in armpit-deep pow, and I’m 6’3.
It was packing out on the high traffic zones...maybe a few more days left of powfinding out in the planets, etc.

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**Harry** · 02-18-2021, 07:02 PM

Representing the TRG at the Birkiebeiner course today

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**yeahman** · 02-18-2021, 07:17 PM

Nice Harry. You getting over to Lake Hubert at all?

**ill-advised strategy** · 02-19-2021, 07:49 PM

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**muted** · 02-19-2021, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Harry

Representing the TRG at the Birkiebeiner course today

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Drumlin Gravity Research?

**skuff** · 02-19-2021, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy

Looks like the lake effect machine is working

**ill-advised strategy** · 02-19-2021, 09:27 PM

Yeah, cool how it arranges in waves so on a sunny day you get an hour of snow, then an hour of Sun...back and forth.

**uglymoney** · 02-19-2021, 10:24 PM

$3 Tequila shots whenever a train is going by. And a food truck. Covid innovation.

The chalk on Warpath tonight was all time. You can't make this shit up. Be here all weekend before the thaw wrecks Ullr's blessings.

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**Beach Bum** · 02-19-2021, 10:26 PM

Don't want this winter to end. It's been a fun one. In a few week lull from skiing but back to Chestnut next weekend and hoping for about ten more days of skiing this season.

Great pics btw over past page or so.

**Harry** · 02-20-2021, 06:06 PM

Christie Mountain did not disappoint today. I’m having a blast in the Midwest. Gummies up, streaming 80’s music into my earbuds (A Flock Of Seagulls), trenching wall to wall corduroy. 3 hours hotlapping lift served, followed by 2 hours Nordic. Warm & sunny. I was afraid spending a winter in the Midwest would suck but it does not. I’m having an awesome time.