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    Cdn Rockies 24/25

    Welcome! Let’s get this started!

    Proper day in the honey hole today! Click image for larger version. 

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    Once you navigate the moat and all the early season boobie traps there is some good snow up high. Go get some!

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    Quote Originally Posted by teamdirt View Post
    Welcome! Let’s get this started!

    Proper day in the honey hole today! Click image for larger version. 

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    Once you navigate the moat and all the early season boobie traps there is some good snow up high. Go get some!
    That's a very nice looking tip shot. Good way to start the new season thread.

    Louise was skiing nicely today. Saddleback & Rodney's Ridge area opened up and had lots of soft turns. Big jump sesh on leap frog.

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    That castle snow cam has me rock hard.

    2023 opener was a once in a lifer...could it happen again?

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    Another great day out there using the rewards of the upslope weather system we are experiencing….skiing well treeline and above. Skiing extremely defensive below tree-line… further east u go the more snow…
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    nice:

    lake was skiing well yesterday, and with summit open we are setting up well. Nice to be out making some turns..


    Side note: I'm back at Pulse bootfitting in banff if anyone needs some work done, and we also need another staff. Personality/customer service is needed. I can train the boot stuff to someone nice, but only room for ONE grumpy old man (me)


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    Norqy was thin! But we made it up and down! Less snow more west. I didn’t get the probe out but probably 20-30cm in the shade. 10 or less in the sun…lol. Still skied ok thx to the awesome work of the summer trail crew. Not going to make that mistake again…
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    https://www.skicastle.ca/haig1/

    Well now we know what's happening with Ex-Angel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SnakeMagnet View Post
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    Well now we know what's happening with Ex-Angel.
    Holy shit, talk about easy access to lightening and Cimo's. Sick. The cat terrain itself I thought a bit mellow but this will take some pressure off red chair for sure.
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    Fernie kicked off the season with an opening day that felt more like mid-February than late November. Most of the mountain was open and coverage was very good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Evil View Post
    Fernie kicked off the season with an opening day that felt more like mid-February than late November. Most of the mountain was open and coverage was very good.
    Best opening day we have had in memory for me. Enough of a crowd that it was tracked out my lunch but I skied every minute of it.

    Pain cave today!

    edit - if anyone saw me on bright orange noctas cartwheel on lift line at white pass..................preseason jitters? lol
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    So did anybody get out to SSV or Louise over the weekend? Looks like the warm storm did a bit of a refresh and I hope its made more of the rocks go to sleep. Hoping to sneak out of work Tuesday. Thanks

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    got out to LL yesterday. BIT wet at the bottom (for the rockies) but really nice overall. WIll help cover the sharks for a while.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sillybunt2 View Post
    So did anybody get out to SSV or Louise over the weekend? Looks like the warm storm did a bit of a refresh and I hope its made more of the rocks go to sleep. Hoping to sneak out of work Tuesday. Thanks
    Was at SSV on Friday. Pretty tracked out, but still some pow if you want to work for it. Not much though! Definitely lots of sharks then, but storm wouldve given a little bit more cover.

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    Quote Originally Posted by garyfromterrace View Post
    Holy shit, talk about easy access to lightening and Cimo's. Sick. The cat terrain itself I thought a bit mellow but this will take some pressure off red chair for sure.
    And also may be an option when the wind doesn't allow red to open at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shorty_J View Post
    And also may be an option when the wind doesn't allow red to open at all.

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    Yeah, absolutely. Though I have to say, the few months I lived up there it was only a couple of times it was totally shut for wind (lots of times it was slowed however). Definitely opens up a bunch more skiable acres to the masses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by garyfromterrace View Post
    Yeah, absolutely. Though I have to say, the few months I lived up there it was only a couple of times it was totally shut for wind (lots of times it was slowed however). Definitely opens up a bunch more skiable acres to the masses.
    I feel, unscientifically, like they are shutting down red more than they used to.

    I have memories of riding that chair in limp mode being basically sideways... So, windy.

    But I've seen a reasonable number of times in the last few years where it's not spinning at all.

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    They need to get that upper T-bar installed sooner rather than later. The liftline has been bare for decades.

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    Louise Conditions Report for Saturday the 7th and Tuesday the 10th - ~20 cm of mid density snow made for great storm skiing, great coverage for early December. Today was outstanding. Excellent coverage on whitehorn 1, fenceline gully, flight chutes etc. for this time of year. Good mix of leftover fresh, soft chop, and classic Louise chalk to be found all over. Best start to winter here since 21/22 Click image for larger version. 

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    Polar peak opened today. Cono came back just to ski it.

    My partner, shackelton I’ll call him, blew first tracks with another one of his expeditions for that last sq meter of pow from 5 days ago, but that’s shakelton.

    My first run was good, but caudtiis as I plan to keep sking betond 52, but solid.

    Second run, I went at it, twice I was stupidly above somekind of cliff band, but the wind hammered, chalky, pow was worth it, I’d do it again, but send Shackleton first.

    I’ll try to get a clip. But better find the guy who pulled the back flip, if he’s around.

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    Last day was a storm day

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    30cm at Fernie at 7:20 am and still snowing!

    Looks like it's a BMT 122 kind of day!

    Edit: rain to the top of deer and super sticky below that.

    Maybe I need fresh wax in the 122s because I could barely move... Switched out for skis that were waxed recently and doing much better.

    Completely soaked at lunch time and need to stop to dry out.

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    Pretty good day today at LL. Obviously still need more base and more terrain open, but it was the best day of the year so far for me. Not that the bar was set very high...

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    no way, rain in fernie? who would have thunk?


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    Quote Originally Posted by mntlion View Post
    no way, rain in fernie? who would have thunk?
    Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good.

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