23/24 WYDAHO * " Le Tits now " * JH, GT, SK, KC, PC...

[singlecross]

Djongo to the white courtesy phone… please call this number and record your conversation. Ask if earbuds are provided to drown out the “Booo’s!” from the peasant’s. Hilarity will ensue

[byates1]

Wow.

[FigureELEVEN11]

So Targhee is getting rid of the Chinese Downhill for first chair on the new chair which used to be cat skiing?

Dang such a sweet perk of that mountain. Rest of it kind of sucks and is just another blue square Teton version of Vail.

But whatever people like the same stuff as me is what it is.

[Djongo Unchained]

Yeah, that was a bit of a jawdropper. Even at JHMR, the new 'local owners' are flexing their happiness with the election results.

I natch went on a tirade for about 20 minutes when I read that email. Good thing ole Benny has a cochlear implant. kidding.

He laughs but as an old local and a skier on Snow King since the 50's, it genuinely bothers him too at 86 years.

Ya know what I keep telling myself?

I was a ski bum here for the fucking golden age, maaaaaan. 1990-202?

A tram, the Big mtn., fatter skis, faster chairs and ganjalas, cool patrollers, decades of shacks, JHAF, the Dark Side, world class athletes, lotsa other sportbums/skids/dirtbags, plenty o' work and usually overpaying, always NorCal nuggage, The OB, the best gear made, the Tetons, decades of likeminded friendships and an entire adult lifetime of adventure.

but if there's a way in front of those dinks, I'll figure it out... I'm on it.

[Gepeto]

...A tram, the Big mtn., fatter skis, faster chairs and ganjalas, cool patrollers, decades of shacks, JHAF, the Dark Side, world class athletes, lotsa other sportbums/skids/dirtbags, plenty o' work and usually overpaying, always NorCal nuggage, The OB, the best gear made, the Tetons, decades of likeminded friendships and an entire adult lifetime...

These vocals could get you a grammy... maggotz - arrange a hook? Quincy's dead

fact

On the slippers & valet thing. I'd put my rep that everyone is in touch with yeahman's vièw.


You aren't worth the salt in you if being a people pimp is your grind

[baron]

Early ups for the uber rich fucking pisses me off. We all pay through the nose for this shit and should have equal access to the pow. Get up early and get in line like the rest of us.

I hear ya, but usually those db's are buried in a wind drift while you lap ridgelines

...if I can only get 8 of these investors hep finish off my mortgage? each can have a 1st virgin run on my toilet after i clean it

[The Suit]

Once upon a time, the Village rented lockers at the top of the Bridger Gondola that came with a pass to get up the gondola early. You know, so you could get to your gear that you were storing up there (wink wink).

It was all locals that had the passes. Well off locals, but not billionaires. Contractor, restaurant owner, landscaper. Maybe a lucky tech founder and his wife.

The two no-tram seasons were peak locker pass. Every powder day was a chinese downhill to Thunder, then again to Sublette, then again to the East Ridge chair. Lap Rendezvous Bowl until the line formed and then haul ass down a Hoback or maybe out the gates. Maybe two laps before the first non-locker-pass skiers showed up in the line, then one or at most two more laps before it was time to skedaddle.

The thing is, every locker pass holder was a fast skier. You had to be to make the most of the 10-12 minute head start. It was glorious, but you had to fucking go.

I bet half the $10,000 chumps get passed by public on the traverse to Thunder.

[FigureELEVEN11]

Yeah, that was a bit of a jawdropper. Even at JHMR, the new 'local owners' are flexing their happiness with the election results.

I natch went on a tirade for about 20 minutes when I read that email. Good thing ole Benny has a cochlear implant. kidding.

He laughs but as an old local and a skier on Snow King since the 50's, it genuinely bothers him too at 86 years.

Ya know what I keep telling myself?

I was a ski bum here for the fucking golden age, maaaaaan. 1990-202?

A tram, the Big mtn., fatter skis, faster chairs and ganjalas, cool patrollers, decades of shacks, JHAF, the Dark Side, world class athletes, lotsa other sportbums/skids/dirtbags, plenty o' work and usually overpaying, always NorCal nuggage, The OB, the best gear made, the Tetons, decades of likeminded friendships and an entire adult lifetime of adventure.

but if there's a way in front of those dinks, I'll figure it out... I'm on it.

Don't want to post this as a jinx but Aspen and JHMR mountain ops are phenomenal but also respect the skiers. JHMR is the best ops in the US hands down.

If you go elswhere in the lower 48 or even Alaska its just moronic shit you watch patrol make laps until 11 for 6 inches the stupidest avy shit complete fucking nonsense. Don't go to Taos if you don't want to watch the owners friends ski the only good lift and see complete fucktard shit.

[Toadman]

Early ups for the uber rich fucking pisses me off. We all pay through the nose for this shit and should have equal access to the pow. Get up early and get in line like the rest of us.

You surely got the memo upthread. Skiing is not a democracy. Sucks but the capitalists have spoken.

[FigureELEVEN11]

You surely got the memo upthread. Skiing is not a democracy. Sucks but the capitalists have spoken.

Poor peeps were pushed out decades ago.

Probably better for congesion and these idiots will do one run and go home.

[FigureELEVEN11]

I mean my wife is from Africa its basically lets ski 2 times and get the boat back in the water considering climate change. Sports shrinking.

But its probably not if your ready to go.

[byates1]

Don't go to Taos if you don't want to watch the owners friends ski the only good lift and see complete fucktard shit.

this happen maybe once for one lap lets not sound like this is at all common. bacon visits one or 2 days a year.

[FigureELEVEN11]

this happen maybe once for one lap lets not sound like this is at all common. bacon visits one or 2 days a year.

I've spend 30 days in that Teton County Jail otherwise good mountain ops nice peeps etc. No stupid shit. I'd love to be there right now.

[Djongo Unchained]

Once upon a time, the Village rented lockers at the top of the Bridger Gondola that came with a pass to get up the gondola early. You know, so you could get to your gear that you were storing up there (wink wink).

It was all locals that had the passes. Well off locals, but not billionaires. Contractor, restaurant owner, landscaper. Maybe a lucky tech founder and his wife.

The two no-tram seasons were peak locker pass. Every powder day was a chinese downhill to Thunder, then again to Sublette, then again to the East Ridge chair. Lap Rendezvous Bowl until the line formed and then haul ass down a Hoback or maybe out the gates. Maybe two laps before the first non-locker-pass skiers showed up in the line, then one or at most two more laps before it was time to skedaddle.

The thing is, every locker pass holder was a fast skier. You had to be to make the most of the 10-12 minute head start. It was glorious, but you had to fucking go.

I bet half the $10,000 chumps get passed by public on the traverse to Thunder.

This is the language of a local.


The 2 years the tram was down, we had a 300" season and then a 600" season.

In the short snow year, there were veeeery few soft days and those were mostly up high. It was indeed a race to the summit for the few good turns before it got hacked and busy.

The faaaat year, you could ski pow anywhere on the hill but the Bowl was the place to be...

Why? Because for the first time in history you could make laps in RBowl on a pow day. (The old Poma was too janky for more than a lap or two.)
And the bowl can be epicly deep and soft pow or a fabulously flat pool table of cream cheese, or talcum powder, or diamond dust.
I've windshield wipered that bowl on 215 DH boards on a smooth day and Man, It's an amazing experience.

One morning the owner of Igneous and I were first up. He was on the Doobies and me on some fat shite. We had 5 genuine over the head blower laps before the line was unbearable.
I may never forget that morning.
A handful of laps OB and it was all I could do to not drown in the vortex of my delirium.

And to do that, Mr. Suit, I had to RACE to thunder from the ganjala.

And it was a bitch to pass up all that sweet terrain en route to Thunder; skiing past granny chutes with 18" is a mofo.

But I'd show up at Thunder and be first in the singles line, quite often riding the first chair up with Clint and Ned.
With those mugs, even first chair was a fucking race, yeah?

That's the Vill and I'd argue an ethos curated by Doug himself.

With the increased uphill speed and capacity, the chess game that skiing the vill is, has changed more in the past 8 years than the prior 40.
If they can't get the tram open by the time that program rolls, there'll be skiers at Sublette before the tram riders...

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I'll get us a new thread here asap. My head is recovering from the past week...

[Foggy_Goggles]

Some of you dudes can really talk skiing and I appreciate that. The Wanker Park equivalent to to that gondi locker was working at Sunspot (Mtn Top Lodge) circa 95. Employees got to load the lift early. I forget the exact rules other than that we were breaking them. I think we were not supposed to have equipment up there and certainly not go up early when you were not working.

Reality was we'd go up super early (deck shoveling ya' know). Make ourselves breakfast, have a couple espressos, then our lifty buddies would call on the bar phone and coach us though a few laps avoiding patrol doing trail checks.

We were always on some type of double secret promotion of some kind but the managers were our friends and we were good at our jobs (relatively speaking) so mostly unfireable.

And for a few years, Berthoud was open as well and we were VIPs there as well. So yeah, the golden age of dirt bagging. Lots of people kinda got chewed up and spit out but so many are still around doing it.

[jsnowut]

As someone that skied there periodically in the early '80s and lived there from '85 to '95 and worked as little as possible in order to play as much as possible and was definitely the living embodiment of a 'skid', the change to JH has been pretty amazing. I loved the days when winter was about having 'dinner' at LeJays with folks that snowmobiled there through town wearing hunting knives on their belts as long as my forearm, Nora's was more about chicken fried steak, and the four women that lived there might be seen at the Shady Lady.

What it has become and who it is marketed to and who can afford it is pretty rough. This pay top dollar so someone can wipe your ass is a bit of a RIP JH for me. It's still the best mtn in the US no discussion (especially when the winters used to be cold and you could ski top to bottom via lower faces in primo conditions and do it all day because you were in BF no where) and I'll still get my days in up there - but man - another nail in the coffin on the vibe.

That said, the same thing is happening in most quality places. And pining for the 'good ole days' doesn't get you that fresh pow fix that we are all hopelessly addicted to - so adapt or die! Every season usually gives you that sparkle of the awesome that keeps us re-upping for the ride again!

Hope the JH folks have a fat year and that roads and airport close making it impossible for anyone to get there for extended periods.

[Djongo Unchained]

You should post more.

That's a moneyshot right there. Takes me back.



I still gots the vibe:

[skiJ]

Yeah, that was a bit of a jawdropper. Even at JHMR, the new 'local owners' are flexing their happiness with the election results.

I natch went on a tirade for about 20 minutes when I read that email. Good thing ole Benny has a cochlear implant. kidding.

He laughs but as an old local and a skier on Snow King since the 50's, it genuinely bothers him too at 86 years.

Ya know what I keep telling myself?

I was a ski bum here for the fucking golden age, maaaaaan. 1990-202?

A tram, the Big mtn., fatter skis, faster chairs and ganjalas, cool patrollers, decades of shacks, JHAF, the Dark Side, world class athletes, lotsa other sportbums/skids/dirtbags, plenty o' work and usually overpaying, always NorCal nuggage, The OB, the best gear made, the Tetons, decades of likeminded friendships and an entire adult lifetime of adventure.

but if there's a way in front of those dinks, I'll figure it out... I'm on it.

Gold, Dj. !

Thank you. skiJ

[elevens]

Once upon a time (during the mid 90s), my friend worked the thunder snack shack. We would grab an occasional 6AM cat up to help her restock the shack with goods. We would help out , enjoy the morning and then wait for Thunder to start spinning. Got in front of the masses a few times. The 90s were a great time to be in the valley. Igneous was just starting out of garage on Simpson, these brothers started a film company and folks knew you by what you drove. You could still park overnight in the upper lot and ski walk ons.

my back hurts….

[jsnowut]

Nice hat DJ - that's amazing! Oh and someones gotta still be a lurker

[The Suit]

Who remembers the crazy blowdown day when the mountain opened and then whited out from top to bottom? That was one of the no tram years. We got all the way up to the bowl before the wind cranked up. I think it was our second lap on the East Ridge chair when the wind came on in full and they shut it down. I'm not sure why I didn't ride the chair with my wife, but I had a patroller on the upwind side and I was so happy that he took the brunt of it. There was no pretty much no one else up there. My wife and I headed down the North Hoback and it was braille skiing all the way to the Union Pass traverse. I was literally surprised when we hit the traverse at the bottom of the mountain.

Journeys School had a ski day that day, so our kids were on the mountain with their school group. They all got locked down for an hour or so at Casper restaurant. We had radios so we could listen to patrol, and we kept the teachers updated on the status of their students. Otherwise no one knew what was going on. People were lost all over the mountain and someone got slid off the traverse around Laramie bowl. 390 closed so no one could get home. We live north of the Village, so when our kids finally made it down we took them home, and even that little two mile drive was an adventure.

I think that was the day a tree fell on the Bridger Gondola cable, but maybe I'm misremembering that part.

[Ski220]

Early ups for the uber rich fucking pisses me off. We all pay through the nose for this shit and should have equal access to the pow. Get up early and get in line like the rest of us.

Yeah, it keeps getting suckier and suckier. The biggest suck though is going to be the loss of the (double top secret) former eating establishment there. They tried to portray it as for ski school only but in actuality it was open to anyone as long as there was a table open. A calm port in a storm of lunch time madness.
Who are they going to kick out for the "lounge" ? The kiddie cafeteria ?
Kind of like when they replaced Nick Wilsons, a great place where everyone was welcome, with the stupid RPK3. Less seating and faux luxury service. I still don't understand why they replaced a place that was always packed with that. I know why, but can't understand it. Can't be generating the same revenue. Maybe?
Whatevers. We'll adapt, but it's just another nail in the coffin.
Back to the powder access.

Who remembers the crazy blowdown day
.

January 28,2008.
We had extended our stay for a day on the promise of a big snow.
And it was fun while it lasted. We made our way to the base and held a long safety session in our vehicle
in the village parking lot. At one point we became concerned as the violence of the winds shook us and seemed
to actually move the SUV.
After the storm abated we waited and eventually they reopened AV. Unfortunately all that glorious powder was
now wind hammered slab and almost unskiable.
While waiting in line we talked to several people who recanted scary tales, like being blown off of Thunder and
having timber crashing down around them and someone digging them selves into the snow to escape the
violence of the storm.



The opening sequence is a run down the Expert Chutes. For not being first run of the day note
the lack of tracks and abundant powder still available. I think only the last two shots were from that day.

In other news; the Governor did the right thing and cast the deciding vote to preserve GTNF by selling it
to the US Dept. of Interior thus keeping it out of the grasp of the other two (asshat grab whatever I can now
for myself during my short time on earth) members of the Wyoming Land Commission.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...k/76128589007/

Well that's all for today. Hopefully I'll be posting some banging stoke again when Djongo puts up a
new season thread.
Pray for snow. Le Tits Now !

[SuperGaper]

Fingers crossed that the Solitude Station program will grab a few gapers off the early tram program-JHMR should halve the early ups folks on the Tram and double the price, better experience for all and same revenue.

Lee Jays - Larry Turner Special for the win.

[Core Shot]

As someone that skied there periodically in the early '80s and lived there from '85 to '95 and worked as little as possible in order to play as much as possible and was definitely the living embodiment of a 'skid', the change to JH has been pretty amazing. I loved the days when winter was about having 'dinner' at LeJays with folks that snowmobiled there through town wearing hunting knives on their belts as long as my forearm, Nora's was more about chicken fried steak, and the four women that lived there might be seen at the Shady Lady.

Yessssss!!!!!!

Lejays sportsman’s cafe might be the milepost on the beginning of the end. A great mix of late night skids and early rising hunters workers and slednecks

[rideit]

Yessssss!!!!!!

Lejays sportsman’s cafe might be the milepost on the beginning of the end. A great mix of late night skids and early rising hunters workers and slednecks

And they were way ahead of the curve with Eastern European, glum, cynical servers!