Cascadia/WA Pow Farming ‘23/‘24

[Huskier]

Close one…reversed Asym BGs are bad luck or is it just personal preference?

Definitely powder brain. Although to be honest I'll run around half the day like that sometimes and won't notice

[Bandit Man]

Hope to be up there for some evening/night skiing if you feel like sticking around.

Missed this and obviously missed you.

Skiing was outrageously good today. Country Club vibes and free refills all day. One of my best days at Stevens in several years.

Nuking fluffy dry stuff when we left this afternoon. So many fresh lines out there.

Ride home was crazy. Pass was a mess. 15-20-mph all the way down to Index. Snow on the road all the way to Sultan. Plows were out but not keeping up.

[greenmachine]

Scary, lose a ski? I’ll go by that spot on Saturday


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[Huskier]

Scary, lose a ski? I’ll go by that spot on Saturday


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I did, that would be immensely appreciated! Although winds were howling this PM with tons of transport (hence the slab) so it may very well be buried already

[Dromond]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1-V8YVS...d2bmtsNmZ6OA==

FYI, touchy windslab on ENE aspects. This was inbounds Exterminator below West Face.

Was that today or yesterday?

[Huskier]

Was that today or yesterday?

Today. I actually hit part of that same little cliff band yesterday (intentionally) and was trying to line up for a repeat. Seemed more stable yesterday, that whole zone I think is just getting really crossloaded

[f=ma]

Missed this and obviously missed you.

Skiing was outrageously good today. Country Club vibes and free refills all day. One of my best days at Stevens in several years.

Nuking fluffy dry stuff when we left this afternoon. So many fresh lines out there.

Ride home was crazy. Pass was a mess. 15-20-mph all the way down to Index. Snow on the road all the way to Sultan. Plows were out but not keeping up.

Ugh, got caught in the pass closure from 2-5pm. Slight annoyance on an perfect day.

The BG's were destroying Steven's as usual.

[Norseman]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1-V8YVS...d2bmtsNmZ6OA==

FYI, touchy windslab on ENE aspects. This was inbounds Exterminator below West Face.

glad you're ok and that the ride wasn't longer. could've been way worse

[Dromond]

I was looking up at what I think was that are on exterminator on Weds from the chair and there was a really loaded, steep looking spot I saw - not sure if that is the spot you ended up in or not. Glad to hear that didn’t end up worse. Patrol said things were quite unstable Wednesday at least.

[plugboots]

glad you're ok and that the ride wasn't longer. could've been way worse

Yup. Thanks for the video even though it freaks me out. I have no idea if this helps but a buddy lost a ski kinda like that in Jackson and the patrol had dogs that found it, and they had it the next morning.

[Wapow]

Pretty sure you can rent a metal detector at the bigger equipment rental places. Should be no problem finding that ski with a detector.

[S_jenks]

Pretty sure you can rent a metal detector at the bigger equipment rental places. Should be no problem finding that ski with a detector.

I’ve actually tried this on two separate occasions for submarined skis. It can definitely work if you know the exact area you are searching. But the more snow loading you get the less effective it is.

Both times I had no luck, in-part due to the heavy snowfall that occurred overnight. One showed up from a Good Samaritan, the other had to wait until the spring to be retrieved.

[BaseFloopy]

Huskydoc if you're going to post in this thread, you are expected to outrun your sluff

Seriously though, glad you are okay.

Do you think the slabbiness built up quickly after that morning's control work had been done, or was it stacking all night?

[Buster Highmen]

Glad you're OK HD, hopefully the ski will turn up, not much snow forecast in the next 3 days.

That nose slabs a lot from windhammering both from North and South. I'll bet control work didn't budge it.

[ExPowderSnob]

Skiing was outrageously good today. Country Club vibes and free refills all day. One of my best days at Stevens in several years.

Nuking fluffy dry stuff when we left this afternoon. So many fresh lines out there.

Can't remember the last day of snow like that at Stevens.. it was unbelievable...
Literally, tracks filled up on a lift ride alone...
It was soo sooo soooo soooooo good.....

[Northway]

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Rough start early. The goods are good. Further photo-faffing limited by pea soup up high but it's clearing...

Are they only lining up on one side of chinook these days?

[cstefanic]

Are they only lining up on one side of chinook these days?

Yep, stretches up the hill significantly now.

[Fishskisurf]

Might be for the better. That other side meshes into the Gondy line and becomes impassable at times as folks are queuing, stepping out and stepping into their skis, for the two different lifts

[Fishskisurf]

And no surprise that a snow starved season drew weekday crowds for the first round of good conditions. Hopefully the chill keeps lines tempered this weekend

[ptavv]

my instagram stories have some videos of today:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/pe...2021044311578/

in short: it was the best day I've ever had at crystal

I guess everyone assumed C6 would be a delayed opening and went to the GV black hole, or they vanished, or something. I have no idea. I got 6 or 7 *literal* ski on laps on C6 before I had to stop in the corral. Still got 3 more before an actual line accumulated around 1030 or so. Every lap was shin to thigh deep blower and I crossed maybe like ten tracks that weren't mine in all those laps?

Went and did a powder bowl to bear pits run (p-bowl still good, bear pits pretty scraped out) and did an Exterminator run to look for Huskydoc's missing ski… which I did not find) it was pretty shralped but a few good turns were had. Warmed up at campbell and then hiked the throne for two more still very good laps since the line had migrated indoors due to the cold (I guess?)

It was pretty dang cold and it seemed like the heat in campbell lodge wasn't working well as the air vents were blowing cool air.

Anyway, an all time great crystal day

[LegoSkier]

Was my daughters first night of mid-week race training at West last night. I only have an uphill pass for Summit so I skinned a couple of laps and it was some deep night pow for sure.

[XavierD]

Missed this and obviously missed you.

Skiing was outrageously good today. Country Club vibes and free refills all day. One of my best days at Stevens in several years.

Nuking fluffy dry stuff when we left this afternoon. So many fresh lines out there.

Ride home was crazy. Pass was a mess. 15-20-mph all the way down to Index. Snow on the road all the way to Sultan. Plows were out but not keeping up.

Unfortunately HW closure kept me from making it up but looks like a day.

Today was A+ at Xtal. Missed the six opening as I was lapping REX. But still great turns off six much of the day. Closed out with a couple phenomenal left angle runs at hip deep

[sheel44]

Hwy 2 backcountry was ridiculous past couple days, got a few runs in on thursday at Yodelin probably some of the better runs I've skied (highway closure probably helped too). Left a part way skin track for someone to use at the clear cuts on henry creek, had to bail because of light. Hoping the cold keeps the crowds away tomorrow

[Dromond]

Today was the coldest day I’ve been backcountry skiing. It was -8 at the car and -10 much of the day near Stevens. We wore absurd amounts of clothing on the uphill and downhill, mostly staying warm,except for my toes which took a long time to warm back up. Slow motion, slow gliding frigid powder felt like Hokkaido. Beautiful day.

[Dromond]

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