can everybody not post in hairy or dankhucker threads

[bdog]

Spring in the PNW ... from May Pow to Poo to corn.

[Dhelihiker]

Have some Steeze and grab your skis


Hairy are any of those pics of you?

[Bodhi]

Gotta dig the groovy joy in this photo! Nice shot.


peace,
D.

[Buster Highmen]

I'm giving thanks to warm days and cold, clear nights. Fellow Pee En Dubyaners, the corn is cooking up rightgood. Who's up for a tour?

Here's to the wisdom of the zeedashbo and the recording skilz of the rodent











(btw 666, this is Northway Bowl, I stand corrected, foggy and st00pid.):

[PNWbrit]

Elk fire place, great beer, deli sandwiches, the end to so many great days with good people.



Springtime coming to a pass near you soon

[Buster Highmen]

[telepariah]

I can't not post on hairy and dankhucker threads because they are everywhere.

But here is some video stoke from late March starring MakersTeleMark and others.

Right click and download for better performance (50MB).

[TahoePowShredder]

man i miss winter. it's going to be a long, long, hot summer.

nice pics dudes.

[Buster Highmen]

PNW: Tales of Desperation, Storms and Textures. (From PNW Bleakness, 2005)

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"I saw the best skiers of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the stony skids at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of storm…."

Apologies to Alan Ginzberg.

So I looked out on the basin, barren above in the cliffs and ice encrusted scrub. Not like an old ugly girlfriend, once peach and dewy now wrinkled, smoking and red, but more like a tired mom, love focused on the moment of her child.

The skin up chair 4 was bleak, linking glacierettes and gingerly stepping over roots and rocks until the runout from Silver Basin. It was blowing hard, dumping snow, puking like it should have been in this dearth of rains gentle drumming. Three tower visibility.

Joe, Rich and I slogged up into the vacant basin, bony on the ridges and upper slopes. But it continued to dump. There was 4-8" of powder, where the temperatures had been in the teens and it was well bonded to the old hardened crust below. Robert Randolph and the Family Band ran through my head, then Pinner. Don't know why, but RR&FB elicits thoughts of Pinner. Gaining the ridge via booting up a rock gully brought us up to the boxcar. The boxcar in February, rocky with no cornice.

It blasted my head with frozen Medusas. Isn't that a swank cocktail? The we ski cut the top, dug hand pits down to the old frozen corn surface and proclaimed it good. So then we each got a pass at the Big Turn.

Way long ago, back before Elvis, back before who knows when there was a Great Big Turn. Then it fell and broke into a million pieces. Some of us got some of the pieces. Some of us trumpet the validity of only their own piece, their own turn. But the old cadre knows better. Our turns are only pieces, cheap echos of the Big Turn. And it will take all the pieces put back together to make it whole again.

But anyway, it was a view that made you want to reach out and caress the whole damn basin, all the folds, all the textures, all the rolling waves of freshly deposited pow that we slug suckers have so desperately missed here in the PNW.

Face shots, dust on crust, fresh untracked turns. It was good, so we lapped some more. Over on the N, side, viewer's right, then back into the gut, then one last slog up over the nose and traverse below Three Way Peak. I kissed the old gal goodbye, blasting through thigh deep blinding turns into some low angle trees down into the draw below.

It must have snowed 4 inches up there and the powder was 14-16" deep. It's out there, you just had to work for it.

[bedtime4bonzos]

I second (or third, or whatever we're on now) the request to not post in crap threads. Posting in those threads -- even if it's just a standard issue STFU -- just gives them a bump and dillutes the front page stoke. SO STOP DOING IT ALREADY.

I nominate telepariah for best avatar.

[PNWbrit]

looking at the front page, it is dominated by threads by started by two people who are either lame alias's or just total dummy's. i like this place when it is full of stoke, not full of douche.

Bump for the original sentiment behind this thread.

[AKbruin]

Man, I love that pic. Classic "wish I was there."

One-day-in-Valdez-but-too-excited-to-take-many-pictures stoke:






Uh, seasonal hiking stoke . . . ?

[Zeedashbo]

your boyfriend likes you when your full of douche though....


edit: from today, zbo: you ever skied the thing in the foreground?

i sure have phil. last thursday to be exact. very slushalanchy.



the front page is doing a lot better today during lunchbreak. thanks all.

[skifishbum]

A few lunch meat huckin shots

My bud Ross doing some nx21 durability testing

They failed

[Blurred]

Why do you have to be such a douche?

It was a joke, relax amigo.

[72Twenty]

It was a joke, relax amigo.

I know.

[hairy]

[hairy]

[Lexi-Bell]

[jibco]

Ooops.




Some nice pics in here.

[Dug]

fkna it needs to be winter again.

[Lani]

No it doesn't!

So glad that the corn is finally here. I'm out the door in a few....

[beaterdit]

BUMP.
For real people, this has gotta stop.

[LeeLau]

Corn stoke

[shrimp1]

just a lurker mostly but bump