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05-20-2023, 10:55 PM #2476
Thanks for the report! It was fatter than that at solstice last year. Did you get a look over the ridge toward Annette?
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05-21-2023, 09:41 AM #2477
You bet!
We had intended to ski down to the lake, but the melt out on the ridge dissuaded us from taking a shot at it.
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05-22-2023, 11:30 AM #2478Registered User
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So i gotta ask. The workers commute to the jobsite involves taking Ch2 up and then skiing down upper international... Facebook just post a pic of one of the workers pouring concrete from a bucket while wearing jeans and ski boots.
Was "must be able to rip double diamonds, and not be afraid of sharks" part of the job descriptions for these guys? Or has there been some carnage on the morning commute?
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05-22-2023, 01:23 PM #2479
I bet corporate safety has no idea he’s accessing his work area via skis…
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05-22-2023, 02:29 PM #2480
All the people I know who do heavy work on snow wear plastic boots designed for mountaineering or ski touring. Most of them are getting around by sled or cat.
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05-22-2023, 02:47 PM #2481
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05-22-2023, 02:48 PM #2482Registered User
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05-22-2023, 07:02 PM #2483Registered User
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05-22-2023, 09:38 PM #2484
There's a short walk at the Nash entrance, Sessel face is melted out now
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05-22-2023, 09:42 PM #2485“I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”
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05-22-2023, 10:01 PM #2486Murderhorn = check
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05-22-2023, 10:04 PM #2487
It is alarming.
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05-22-2023, 10:15 PM #2488
I was talking to a forest service fuels reduction specialist guy and he intimated that the bulk of the trees lost this winter we’re due to cold shock. There are a shocking number of standing dead evergreens on the east slope. It looks like most of the deciduous trees are coming back.
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05-23-2023, 08:43 PM #2489
I wasn't aware that the temps were far enough below normal this year to cause shock damage. Was that a Columbia Basin thing?
There was a fair bit of buzz at Alpy near the end of the season about the unhealthy-looking woods. Leading layman's theory according to my chairlift chatter is: June 2021 heat dome fry, followed the next summer by 100 days without precip, followed by this winter which maintained a cold dry snowpack with perhaps limited water perc... heat scorch followed by drought stress. I recall seeing a few trees looking fucked up last year after the heat wave, and those trees mostly have no needles now, but the huge numbers of red trees really only seemed evident by about April of this year.
This article suggests that heat scorch shows up pretty quickly, in contrast to browning months after drought stress:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-pacific-northwest-dome-tree-temperature.html
And this one describes mass fir die-off as a combination of heat/drought with insect and fungi attack.
https://columbiainsight.org/massive-...fic-northwest/
I'd be very interested to learn more, if anyone comes across further information.
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05-23-2023, 08:52 PM #2490
Norseman here is a newspaper article from the Methow about our winter. Temps were around 0 in the first week of November and a lot of deciduous trees held on to their leaves through the winter. I've heard about a decent number that haven't budded out this spring. Obvious that's very different than conifers on I-90, but I thought you might appreciate the article.
My guess is you are spot on about the cause starting with the heat dome of 2021 and drought issues after that. It irks me when people talk about how "the drought is gone" not understanding the long term stress that trees have faced from the last few years. It doesn't just suddenly get better.
https://methowvalleynews.com/2023/05...-did-not-fall/
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05-24-2023, 09:31 AM #2491
Red trees everywhere in the Wenatchee mountains and east slopes. Lots of Doug fir and Pondos. Deciduous trees held their leaves in Wenatchee and the valley most of the winter. I was worried about my beech tree but it finally dropped it’s leaves and leafed out new about a month ago.
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05-25-2023, 09:27 AM #2492
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05-27-2023, 02:16 PM #2493Registered User
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05-27-2023, 02:38 PM #2494
Somewhat better coverage 3 years ago to the day:
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05-27-2023, 11:19 PM #2495
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...."
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06-14-2023, 04:38 PM #2496Registered User
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I want to sign my kids up for weekend lessons next season at one of the ski clubs- what's the deal there? Are they all the same or any better than the others? Nobody is calling or emailing me back and while I hope that means I should relax, seems like we have to sign up for kid shit within 10 seconds of it opening 18 months out or you miss it. One of them is already full, but some others seem off for the summer.
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06-15-2023, 11:54 AM #2497
In the past, I used Webbski. The big advantage to Webbski was that they kept the kids for lunch so I was free to ski kid-free basically all day. The downside to Webbski is that they're at Central and the quality of instruction is highly dependent and which high school aged kid is the instructor of your kids group. They were also a lot more affordable than some of the other options. I don't have any personal experience with any of the other schools. If you go the Webbski route, they're pretty old school and have a paper mailer registration form. Don't expect fancy online ordering and payment systems.
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06-15-2023, 01:46 PM #2498Registered User
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I did lessons at Alpental for all of my kids. I figured that I didn't want to waste my few ski days at Central or West. Alpental tends to have good instructors, though it's always a crap shoot. If your kid has never skied at all, sometimes it's easier to start them with some night lessons over at West. Their learning area is much better than at Alpental. My rule with lessons was that they could be done with lessons once they could ski Upper Internationale without slowing me down too much. They generally got there are 10-11yo after starting at 4yo.
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07-29-2023, 09:21 PM #2499
In good news the road to the upper lots is in the best shape ever
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07-29-2023, 09:39 PM #2500Registered User
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