PNW 2022/2023 Season - It's Triple Dip La Niña Time!

[waveshello]

Corn/corn adjacent snow above Blewett pass this afternoon. Probably just a couple more weeks of skiing back to the car.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Ranger was a great camp spot. Crystal is dope.

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[Iowagriz]

I don't believe you drink, but check out the Snorting Elk for a cool apres experience.

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[PNWbrit]

I don't believe you drink, but check out the Snorting Elk for a cool apres experience.

And the only food at Crystal worth eating.

[AK47bp]

Ranger was a great camp spot. Crystal is dope.

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She’s a beaut. The photos never do it justice, so much better in person.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Just schralped teh gnars. Time to go phishing.

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[Huskier]

Noice

[plugboots]

Second season starts for me.

[ptavv]

good day to break in new boot liners

[jackattack]

Second season starts for me.

Excellent.

[plugboots]

good day to break in new boot liners

Nice!
But WTF is going on here:

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Whose skiing alpy tomorrow? Looked at the weather and don't really know what to think.

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[AK47bp]

My guess is themorning will be rough up high and off piste. Usually softens up around 11-12 and will be decent corn till close.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

My guess is themorning will be rough up high and off piste. Usually softens up around 11-12 and will be decent corn till close.

Even if it's cloudy/precip all day?

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[AK47bp]

Even if it's cloudy/precip all day?

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If it freezes overnight. Hard to know for sure this time of year. The low at the pass is showing around 30 to 34 degrees tonight and Alpental is a couple degrees cooler usually, chair 2 elevation is another few (or more) degrees cooler. 50% chance of overnight precip is the wildcard.

No reason to not go but haven’t checked Crystal or Stevens weather.

[californiagrown]

Whose skiing alpy tomorrow? Looked at the weather and don't really know what to think.

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Pay yer nickel and take your chances.

I'd suggest some laps at tokul in the AM, 3 cheeseburgers for $7 in fall city, and afternoon laps in the softened snow at alpental. It'll be a good day, trust me. Or ride Physical Therapy at raging river instead of tokul before heading up.

Uncrowded alpental is a blast even in suboptimal conditions... So many nooks and crannies to explore.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Already did tokul and fall city burgers. I think a raging river lap and afternoon Alpy is the call before heading east.

Orange Freeride System shell, biggest mustache on the hill, Heritage Labs FL113. Ask for change.

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[ptavv]

Nice!
But WTF is going on here:

I tried som Folkrm poles and I really liked the baton style grip.

I had some Grass Sticks bamboo poles that I had used *for years* because I always manage to bend metal poles or snap composite ones but the bamboo ones survived all the abuse I threw at them and were awesome.

I emailed Grass Sticks a few times about making a baton style grip and they always blew me off in replies and referred me to their "tour grip" which I already had and think kinda stinks. I tried putting tennis racket tape between the tour grip and the top trigger style grip and it just wasn't the same.

Then IG delivered me an ad to buy some extended EVA foam grips without the poles and after ordering the wrong size (the diameter of my bamboo was 16mm but I thought the foam would compress enough to get over the ridges, but it didn't so I returned them and got the 18mm ones and used some duct tape bolstering to get a nice tight fit). Then I filled the old screw holes with wood glue and shaved a cut out for the straps in the foam, bought some new screws (the ones the grips came with only work for metal poles with an expansion nut that goes inside a metal pole), and mounted it all up on the bamboo sticks.

Now I have the only bamboo baton style poles that I've ever seen and I fucking love them. Unless all of this was a question about my pole strap or gloves? Sometimes I use pole straps and the gloves are $4 Showa Atlas gloves that are nice and high vis. They breathe amazing (the back is all just a light synthetic knit) and the palms and fingers are PU dipped for grip and getting wet).

[ptavv]

to make up for my weird rant here are some pictures for today

it turns out the usual road skin to reflection lake is currently a road walk which was a very unpleasant surprise as wishing i brought trail runners on a ski trip means it's well and truly spring and also i'd rather skin for three hours than walk for 15 minutes in ski boots on a road

[bfree]

It's nice to bike that access once it's plowed. But yeah it would be nice if they would communicate when it happens.

[californiagrown]

Already did tokul and fall city burgers. I think a raging river lap and afternoon Alpy is the call before heading east.

Orange Freeride System shell, biggest mustache on the hill, Heritage Labs FL113. Ask for change.

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If it rains as hard as it's supposed to, tokul, tiger then raging best handle rain. In exponentially descending order. If you're over tokul, I'd highly recommend tiger instead of raging- tiger has a lot more rock and has been ridden in so it will ride better. Or, if you're not feeling a sloppy morning ride, just wake n bake and try out some bikini barista shacks to compare espresso and tits before heading to alpy.

[Norseman]

Or, if you're not feeling a sloppy morning ride, just wake n bake and try out some bikini barista shacks to compare espresso and tits before heading to alpy.

Great suggestion!

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MV Walla Walla stormin the beach with 600 unwilling soldiers aboard:

[phatty]

I tried som Folkrm poles and I really liked the baton style grip.

I had some Grass Sticks bamboo poles that I had used *for years* because I always manage to bend metal poles or snap composite ones but the bamboo ones survived all the abuse I threw at them and were awesome.

I emailed Grass Sticks a few times about making a baton style grip and they always blew me off in replies and referred me to their "tour grip" which I already had and think kinda stinks. I tried putting tennis racket tape between the tour grip and the top trigger style grip and it just wasn't the same.

Then IG delivered me an ad to buy some extended EVA foam grips without the poles and after ordering the wrong size (the diameter of my bamboo was 16mm but I thought the foam would compress enough to get over the ridges, but it didn't so I returned them and got the 18mm ones and used some duct tape bolstering to get a nice tight fit). Then I filled the old screw holes with wood glue and shaved a cut out for the straps in the foam, bought some new screws (the ones the grips came with only work for metal poles with an expansion nut that goes inside a metal pole), and mounted it all up on the bamboo sticks.

Now I have the only bamboo baton style poles that I've ever seen and I fucking love them. Unless all of this was a question about my pole strap or gloves? Sometimes I use pole straps and the gloves are $4 Showa Atlas gloves that are nice and high vis. They breathe amazing (the back is all just a light synthetic knit) and the palms and fingers are PU dipped for grip and getting wet).

Where did you get the grips? I haven't seen those Insta ads yet.

[SkiLyft]

Should have put another quarter in

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[ptavv]

Where did you get the grips? I haven't seen those Insta ads yet.

https://www.centralparkskiclub.com/