Oregon 2021-2022 Snow Flow Thread

[TBS]

Ok that's good info. More Rotary(steering). Brush turns or edge lock carves I would assume you have to counter your upper body to the outside of the turn or at some point you would get to far inside the turn and lose the edge. I almost would try mono.

You can probably forget about vertical separation if you do…

Fun day yesterday ripping spring corn with The Space Commander and Sparkle Plenty on Pine and NW


Sadly, SC unzipped the neck of his suit, so the top half did not fully inflate like the bottom

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Dope party

[thefortrees]

Corn o plenty out there today, hot damn.


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[doubleeject]

The NWAC report regarding the Apr 5th fatality @ MHM is up. Interesting to read the details, highlights the difficulty in locating someone even when they are very close to an area that gets a decent amount of traffic.
https://files.nwac.us/wp-content/upl...eport.docx.pdf

[CnRzG]

Damn... I have skied in the woods above it a lot. Always saw that final chute as a no go.... and headed back to lift. So sad.

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thx for posting the debrief doc -- interesting, if grim, reading for any meadows rider

[abraham]

Thanks for that, it was worth reading. The creek is a hell of a trap right there. I haven't skied there but I think I've seen a video of a mag or two almost ending up in the creek somewhere in that area. The report added good context that I didn't have from looking at the trail map.

[TBS]

The NWAC report regarding the Apr 5th fatality @ MHM is up. Interesting to read the details, highlights the difficulty in locating someone even when they are very close to an area that gets a decent amount of traffic.
https://files.nwac.us/wp-content/upl...eport.docx.pdf

Thanks for this.
Hard to figure out the guy's route from top of SSX to point of his demise. Most access to that area (at least as I recall) is via HRM chair. Guessing he entered at Jack's, traversed south past Ho Chi Minh and dropped in south of Heather chair?

The lack of trauma or any ice lens around his face is pretty weird as well.

Guess it doesn't really matter now. Shred in peace dude. Condolences to friends and family

[river59]

^ the few times I have skied that zone, I have approached as you describe, TBS - generally the vicinity of S&R gate. It does seem odd to traverse all the way over there on that particular day and on a snowboard.

It isn't all that often that I notice tracks coming out of those chutes. I wonder if he intended to end up at the top of those, or got enticed by untracked snow in the trees above? Once you are standing at the entrance to those, there aren't many alternatives other than booting up or over to the next chute.

Fucking tragic

[boar2m]

He was scanned at the SSX last but the heather chair scanner was down that day. He could have rode the heather lift up and dropped into the lower gate near the bottom of SSX... tragic no matter how it happened.

[boar2m]

I think he just wanted you to know that aporophobia is not something we’re all on board with over here. Like all hate-based ideologies, it just screams ignorance, and that’s untenable for a lot of us. Have a good one.

Don't know why but your comment made me listen to this for some reason...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xkxy3tXTA

[thefortrees]

^ the few times I have skied that zone, I have approached as you describe, TBS - generally the vicinity of S&R gate. It does seem odd to traverse all the way over there on that particular day and on a snowboard.

It isn't all that often that I notice tracks coming out of those chutes. I wonder if he intended to end up at the top of those, or got enticed by untracked snow in the trees above? Once you are standing at the entrance to those, there aren't many alternatives other than booting up or over to the next chute.

Fucking tragic

Difficult to navigate back there. The skiing is great until it isn’t… perfectly spaced, steep old growth, always untracked. I’ve taken the bait a couple times but fortunately have been with partners.

FYI - heard from a reliable source yesterday that MHM has submitted a proposal to officially open their boundaries. They will add additional gates, and some of us won’t need to sneak around as much

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FYI - heard from a reliable source yesterday that MHM has submitted a proposal to officially open their boundaries. They will add additional gates, and some of us won’t need to sneak around as much

i always thought it was odd that tline & meadows didn't share similar OB policies

[river59]

That would be excellent. Gates + open boundaries doesn't compute for me. Do they still reserve the right to restrict access under certain conditions? If gates are closed can you still cross a rope line? I wonder if they will increase avy education offerings?

I have almost no experience with the finer points of resorts that have open boundaries.

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i'm guessing the whole howitzer hangfire control will influence things...

[Backward_Banana]

AFAIK, it's not really open boundaries, more-so that they will have gates into areas that aren't PR or Heather, and you can go wherever you want when the gates are open, but they won't always be open.

[thefortrees]

That would be excellent. Gates + open boundaries doesn't compute for me. Do they still reserve the right to restrict access under certain conditions? If gates are closed can you still cross a rope line? I wonder if they will increase avy education offerings?

I have almost no experience with the finer points of resorts that have open boundaries.

Same dude also mentioned they did a few test runs of avy courses via lift access this year and they will be rolling out more of those in the future.

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Might inspire more people to carry gear

[k2skier112]

Damn... I have skied in the woods above it a lot. Always saw that final chute as a no go.... and headed back to lift. So sad.

This doesn't make sense. If you're at the top of Patty Cakes it would take a lot of uphill to get back to the Heather lift. Do you mean headed back to HRM lift?

Either way, going into that area alone is just dumb

Me and my son traversed the top of S&R cliffs once. We just traversed farther than Patty Cakes to find a mellower way down, plus I've surveyed that terrain many times while taking the runout and knew the creek was there and could cause problems without adequate snow. We were a fair ways below and away from the Heather lift when we reached the runout and had to be at least 50-100 yards skiers left of Patty Cakes

[CnRzG]

I stand corrected.

[boar2m]

AFAIK, it's not really open boundaries, more-so that they will have gates into areas that aren't PR or Heather, and you can go wherever you want when the gates are open, but they won't always be open.

That’s what I was thinking, like near the bottom of heather lift to go up the Newton/Clark/Pea gravel ridge without a long slog up from the HRM parking lot. I’ve never done it but couldn’t you do that now without the gate... when safe to do so?

[boar2m]

or down White river from the Vista ridge?

[river59]

You can definitely do that now - exit just below the upper sign board. I have even seen people do the super high traverse over into Clark and boot up the wall of PG to the ridgetop, but that is probably technically verboten. I am guessing these gates might be on the opposite side of the resort, maybe?

[jonesy]

Strong finish 21/22 season.

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dude is from CT?!?

https://snowbrains.com/mount-hood-fastest-known-time/