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  1. #51
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    Absolutely. Please go to Baker. TERRIBLE drives from Xtal/Stevens anymore.

    Quote Originally Posted by XavierD View Post
    Not sure why folks don’t just ski Baker. The drives back from Crystal and stevens are so fucked it takes about the same time as from the POW at the end of 542.
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    If I lived in WA, Oft would be my realtor. Seriously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfajores View Post
    What about Mission?
    Flat. Windy. Barely any natural snowfall. Rocky (you will destroy your skis here!) Old, slow, unreliable lifts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pisteoff View Post
    Negative. It always rains at Baker. A certain local photog with poor spelling faked it with photoshop. Stay away.
    Nah, I saw a Tanner Hall movie once. All the powders are there. All of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier View Post
    Flat. Windy. Barely any natural snowfall. Rocky (you will destroy your skis here!) Old, slow, unreliable lifts.
    Every ski is a rock ski.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackattack View Post
    Every ski is a rock ski.
    Lifts rarely work either
    “I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”

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    EVERY SKI IS A ROCK SKI!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by pisteoff View Post
    Negative. It always rains at Baker. A certain local photog with poor spelling faked it with photoshop. Stay away.
    Same reason why we tell people not to move to Seattle. It rains ALL THE TIME! Coming from California, Colorado, and Texas (do people actually leave Texas for Washington?) you will be miserable and cold and wet because it is against the law to use an umbrella.

    Back to the thread, I have never seen rain at Baker, but I never lived in Bellingham. My sample size isn’t enormous. I also ski in the rain.
    Someone once told me that I ski like a Scandinavian angel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kopi_Red View Post
    As of the last few seasons the gapers from those areas have invaded the flat slopes of White. Last season weekends were unskiable with all of those clowns clogging everything up.
    Give them time. They will learn. Some of them may even learn the heritage of ON3P and @iggyskiier on 13th and Proctor. (I remember).
    Someone once told me that I ski like a Scandinavian angel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfajores View Post

    Back to the thread, I have never seen rain at Baker, but I never lived in Bellingham. My sample size isn’t enormous. I also ski in the rain.
    I have definitely been skiing at Baker and had it rain. One day it started out snowing and then rained for an hour at lunch and then switched back to snow. Made for really tough skiing.

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    I'd take more Texans over Californians.

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    I've had a few really fun rainy days at Baker. Rubber outerwear, dawn soap, and your shittiest pair of goggles. Almost like a powder day, but with no one around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier View Post
    I have definitely been skiing at Baker and had it rain. One day it started out snowing and then rained for an hour at lunch and then switched back to snow. Made for really tough skiing.
    ^ This.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ol' Moss-Back View Post
    ^ This.

    Builds character.


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    Like this is a TGR shortage?
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    For some things, enough is never Enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shredgnar View Post
    dawn soap
    you'll have to excuse my naivete but why?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackattack View Post
    you'll have to excuse my naivete but why?
    For your base, apply every few laps. Prevents suck-shun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfajores View Post
    Same reason why we tell people not to move to Seattle. It rains ALL THE TIME! Coming from California, Colorado, and Texas (do people actually leave Texas for Washington?) you will be miserable and cold and wet because it is against the law to use an umbrella.
    A surefire sign of a transplant/tourist in Seattle, Bellingham, or Vancouver is an umbrella.

    Quote Originally Posted by alfajores View Post
    I have never seen rain at Baker, but I never lived in Bellingham. My sample size isn’t enormous. I also ski in the rain.
    The problem with Baker is lack of elevation. Then again, I've skied in the rain at Whistler too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ol' Moss-Back View Post
    ^ This.

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    Yeah, and that "skiing-in-the-rain-guy" reputation/perception that we need to live up to/foster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pisteoff View Post
    The problem with Baker is lack of elevation. Then again, I've skied in the rain at Whistler too.
    Big snow = Big Precip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ACH View Post
    Yeah, and that "skiing-in-the-rain-guy" reputation/perception that we need to live up to/foster.
    So is styofoam shoes and a penchant for polysorbate 80.
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    Said one maggot to another maggot - "It's actually skiing pretty good", says mag 1. "Yeah, seems to be the right amount of rain", replies mag 2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierD View Post
    I'd take more Texans over Californians.
    On the one hand, a Texan won't condescendingly tell you 3 times in a conversation about what aspect of california is better than where you are currently, but on the other hand, you will probably be talking to that texan while hes open-carrying, marveling about them there big hill country mountains and dodging dip spit. there are plusses and minuses to each.

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    Quote Originally Posted by californiagrown View Post
    On the one hand, a Texan won't condescendingly tell you 3 times in a conversation about what aspect of california is better than where you are currently, but on the other hand, you will probably be talking to that texan while hes open-carrying, marveling about them there big hill country mountains and dodging dip spit. there are plusses and minuses to each.
    I'd much prefer the later. The Texan at least remembers what home is and will hopefully move back home at some point. The Californian will simply strive to create the same thing he left and ruin things for the locals.

    Also, to be factually correct, open carry up until recently was illegal in Texas. Open Carry has been legal in Washington since the formation of our state. So the Texan would actually be admiring our legally Open Carried firearm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by californiagrown View Post
    On the one hand, a Californian will condescendingly tell you 3 times about what aspect of california is better than where you are currently, but on the other hand, you will probably not be talking to that texan while hes open-carrying, marveling about them there big hill country mountains and dodging dip spit. there are plusses and minuses to each.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier View Post
    Big snow = Big Precip.
    Can't make Cascade Concrete without water.

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