PNW 2021/2022 Season! La Niña ahead!

[HAB]

To get the stoke back on track:

Phantom skied great this morning. Deep snow and very good stability up top. Little scraped out through the trees near the bottom, as expected.

[DanoT]

What are the symptoms at crystal? Seems pretty well run and I imagine the vast majority of Stevens folks would be pleased if it was running like crystal. Somewhat expensive, sure, but that's Pugetopolis in 2021.

Vail should also be offering to pay WSDOT to nuke the traffic lights in Sultan and replace with roundabouts. I will never ski there other than once in a blue moon because of those lights, and I imagine they're a hindrance to prospective employees too.

Ok stoplights can be annoying but they should stop you from driving down the road, not stop you from skiing at a ski area. Please explain why they might be a hindrance to prospective Stevens Pass employees. I mean I have never heard of stoplights being so insidious.

[phatty]

Ok stoplights can be annoying but they should stop you from driving down the road, not stop you from skiing at a ski area. Please explain why they might be a hindrance to prospective Stevens Pass employees. I mean I have never heard of stoplights being so insidious.

Sounds like someone has never been stopped in a miles long back up caused by the lights. Plus it's not like you can avoid them or the road when it's the only road to the ski hill. The lights themselves may not be a major deterrent, but the traffic they cause definitely is.

[Wapow]

Ok stoplights can be annoying but they should stop you from driving down the road, not stop you from skiing at a ski area. Please explain why they might be a hindrance to prospective Stevens Pass employees. I mean I have never heard of stoplights being so insidious.

It's not the lights that cause the legendary HWY 2 backups. The existing traffic circle at Rice Road creates the longest backups. It's often the spot where the traffic finally gets moving. Change all the lights to traffic circles and the backup wouldn't change. Simply too many cars for a two lane highway.

And some stoke

[bfree]

Ok stoplights can be annoying but they should stop you from driving down the road, not stop you from skiing at a ski area. Please explain why they might be a hindrance to prospective Stevens Pass employees. I mean I have never heard of stoplights being so insidious.

Someone that lives in Monroe and works at the mountain used to have a 1 hour return commute, now it's usually 2 hours.
Maybe roundabouts wouldn't get it quite back down to 1 hour, but I bet it would be pretty close.

[Wapow]

Someone that lives in Monroe and works at the mountain used to have a 1 hour return commute, now it's usually 2 hours.
Maybe roundabouts wouldn't get it quite back down to 1 hour, but I bet it would be pretty close.

Even if all the lights and circles were removed it would still backup on hard on weekends due to the load. The commute has gotten longer because there are more cars, not more lights.

[mufasa5446]

Has anyone been following kooksofstevenspass on insta?

It seems they’re on a real mission over there to save Stevens

Yeah I really appreciate that. Fuck Vail. However having the backside untracked for days while I slay the deep pow and hop over the rocks is pretty nice. It’s nicely manicured BC terrain now. Dealing with the traffic and BS is still tough. Holiday weeks though, what can y do. Just gotta sit in Leavenworth traffic and be glad I’m not in seattle because I cannot handle even Leavenworth traffic on the holidays.

[AK47bp]

Power out again at Summit today.


Bummer to show up with my kid and have to turn around. Luckily only 30 min drive home.


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[californiagrown]

Power out again at Summit today.


Bummer to show up with my kid and have to turn around. Luckily only 30 min drive home.


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It's become the new thing. The conditions report had a bit of an ultimatum for PSE in it.

As soon as the chair 2 lifty said "no power" I dipped out. Was next group up when it went out too haha. Beautiful day till that point.

[NW_SKIER]

DOT summit cams are back online, which means there's juice up there currently

[SeatownSlackey]

Anyone have scoop on what’s causing the outages on the pass? Seems its clearly a bigger problem than a random line issue. Showed up at silver fit with groms just after power went out. Lines at central express rough and not made better by lax loading but at least some turns were made.


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[waveshello]

I skied white yesterday and was surprised that not once did any of the lifts stop or even slow when I was riding, from open till close. I think due to experienced lift ops. That was nice for a change. Too bad it's so flat...


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[NW_SKIER]

I skied white yesterday and was surprised that not once did any of the lifts stop or even slow when I was riding, from open till close. I think due to experienced lift ops. That was nice for a change. Too bad it's so flat...


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Tell all your friends. It sucks there and needs to go back to 10 years ago crowds.

Theres plenty of good little chutes and steep shots, btw. You just gotta know where they are.

[Buster Highmen]

Anyone have scoop on what’s causing the outages on the pass? Seems its clearly a bigger problem than a random line issue. Showed up at silver fit with groms just after power went out. Lines at central express rough and not made better by lax loading but at least some turns were made.


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Nope, we hit the same thing yesterday.

[NW_SKIER]

Power still out at Summit. Bummer.

[Buster Highmen]

Power still out at Summit. Bummer.

where did you read that?
this says open: https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/hours...ation=alpental

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nice consistency, this says power out: https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/conditions

[TheSilverSurfer]

Power still out at Summit. Bummer.

Pass closed also, due to zero visibility. Expecting 24" in 24 hours

[NW_SKIER]

where did you read that?
this says open: https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/hours...ation=alpental

(edit)

nice consistency, this says power out: https://summitatsnoqualmie.com/conditions

Yeah. Cool huh? Wake up Summit

Pass closed also, due to zero visibility. Expecting 24" in 24 hours

Gonna be deep

[bfree]

PSE outage map has a current estimate of 2pm for power restoration

[NW_SKIER]

PSE outage map has a current estimate of 2pm for power restoration

So today is write off then. Tomorrow should be fantastic.

Crazy to see the road closed yet again. Driving night shift this year, it has been astounding the overwhelming lack of plow crews up there at night so far. Statewide, even. I only saw two plow trucks from Easton all the way to Lynden Sunday night. These closures are killing the transportation industry. It feels an awful lot like they just say "fuck it" at night and go home.

[puma]

No power and 90 closed. Fantastic...

[NW_SKIER]

Try and keep up

[Buster Highmen]

shitspatzcrankwadsbumblefuckz.

[goCougs]

Well fuck now what

[Buster Highmen]

I blame the anti waxers.