SCseagoat
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Santa Cruz
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Nov 12, 2012 - 10:41am PT
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Big Mike, jealous...
Hoping for another winter like this (2 years ago). But this year we are building our own pulks, too old for humping big loads into the back country.
edit: Backcountry Love; please have snow like this again.
Susan
Jay, we did well, couldn't believe the number of jack knifed big rigs, however.
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Big Mike
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BC
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Nov 12, 2012 - 01:34pm PT
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Nice Susan! Looks like fun!
It's snowing for sure...
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east side underground
climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Nov 12, 2012 - 06:13pm PT
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summer's back..... no ice for you..... go climbing.....
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Nov 12, 2012 - 06:20pm PT
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Relax, SnowLovers. You know ALL too well the Trials & Tribulations of the dreaded Between Times.
Well, here we are again, just wait yer turn(s).....It gets better. ;-)
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eKat
Trad climber
BackInTheDitch BackInTheDirt BackInTheDay
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2012 - 08:48am PT
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Still drier than a popcorn fart here on TheHolyMont. . . but. . . Big's gettin' somethin'!
YAY!
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steve shea
climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:35pm PT
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I just got back from five days in Summit co. Loveland A Basin and Copper. We had great weather, even six new one day for dust on crust. It was a veritable arc fest. They really know how to farm early season snow in Co. Especially Copper. Two feet of pure chalk, no rocks with the odd patch of frozen liquid just to keep you honest. Ripping good fun to start the ski year. Ski teams from all over the world training full speed GS on the new FIS mandated 35m radius skis for good imagery. Remember folks the lifts are there for a reason. Screw the backcountry! It's all about taping your ears back and going fast, truly fast by fixing your heels and following the path to ski enlightenment by laying down the big arcs. It is all fun, snow sliding, but feeling like you have wheels of steel after an arcathon session is better, yes folks, better than POW. Heh, Heh. You surfers should be able to relate. A groomed hill, 800m vertical, honed and waxed GS skis etc. What's it like? Every turn you are proned out feeling the energy and pressure build , setting up to release and dive into the next turn over and over. Carving clean arcs at 45mph. I'm not a very good surfer but GS reminds me of really clean fast bottom turns, feeling the energy of the wave build and pitch up, going faster and faster pushing the ride. On skis you get it over and over all day and you get to rest your wheels between runs on the lift rides. After near 20yrs working for Rossignol/Rossignol Race Dept, I have not gotten it out of my system. Let it snow!
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John M
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:43pm PT
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Great description Steve.
Looks like the weathermen are starting to agree that at least Tahoe will get some dumpage this weekend.
http://tahoeweatherdiscussion.com/
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eKat
Trad climber
BackInTheDitch BackInTheDirt BackInTheDay
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2012 - 12:47pm PT
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After near 20yrs working for Rossignol/Rossignol Race Dept, I have not gotten it out of my system. Let it snow!
I couldn't agree more. . . I'm just about to start my 45th skeezin season and I'm like a little kid. . . so frikken excited.
LET IT SNOW!
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SCseagoat
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Santa Cruz
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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My longest lasting love affair has been with snow and skiing. My first ski season started in 1956. I’m standing behind my brother holding his poles (I wasn’t allowed poles) in a wool knicker suit, that get this, was a hand down from my Dad who wore it in the 30’s when he learned to ski.
Love the look on my brother’s face as he’s probably thinking, “duh, we aren’t ice skating”. Wish he were still around to give me that look. In high school we were allowed to use touring skis to get to school. Where California schools had bike racks, we had ski racks in the winter!
Since that winter in 1956 I have only missed 1 full and 2 half ski seasons. Half a season because I was hugely preggers, another half defending my dissertation and a full season when I was on chemo and blood thinners. Even though I thought I could lightly ski that year the doctor said a fall could be fatal because of being on blood thinners. That got my attention.
Now, high tech gear and photogs on the mountains
Over the last ten years every time I bought new skis I thought, “ya know this is probably the last pair I’ll ever buy”…but with a ready supply of Advil and Ortho docs that keep honing their skills in putting back together old bodies, my love affair with snow and skiing just might be, just really might be, the one that lasts until “death do us part”
Susan
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steve shea
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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Hey eKat do you live in Whitefish? It's one of my favorite ski towns with some great sliding. If so do you know my old ski bud Cody Thompson? She raced alpine for years with Team Breck then skied on the US Natl tele team. Raced tele World Cup for a while. We, Rossignol, sponsored her while on the team. I skied with her a bunch when in Whitefish. The Big rules!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:14pm PT
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TFPU, scSeagoat. That's stoke all the way through.
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eKat
Trad climber
BackInTheDitch BackInTheDirt BackInTheDay
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2012 - 02:22pm PT
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Hey, SteveShea. . . I don't live in Whitefish, but my local mountain is THE BIG (unless I turn left at 93 and go to Fernie)
The very best part of living up here is being near ski areas that CARE YOU'RE THERE!
I think they should use that line in their marketing!
:-)
Ya know. . . Big's been bought out and now they TRY to call it Whitefish Mountain Resort. . . HA. . . crack me up. . . there are cars driving around town with DUCT TAPE words stuck on the side that say:
IT WILL ALWAYS BE BIG MOUNTAIN!
And, no, I don't know your friend. . . but if you get back up this way please shoot me some E. . . I'd love to connect!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Nov 14, 2012 - 05:58am PT
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Bump for major weather event heading to our home range this weekend and on into next week. We'll be eating more than turkey Thanksgiving!!!!!
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 14, 2012 - 03:58pm PT
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I'm waxin' and just shoveled the bucks out for the season pass. Good thing my buds told me that Nov. 18th was last day to get pass for Kirkwood...new owners this year, different rules I guess.
We'll be eating more than turkey Thanksgiving!!!!!
Susan
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khanom
Trad climber
Greeley Hill
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Nov 14, 2012 - 08:35pm PT
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No snow for meee!
A weak weather system will move onshore early Friday and into Saturday, bringing widespread light precipitation to Northern California. Snow levels will range from 6000 to 7000 feet. Saturday, a second system begins to combine with the first and precipitation increases late in the day. This second system is considerably stronger with higher winds and increased precipitation. Winds may gust up to the 30 mph range in the Valley and up to 50-70 mph over the higher Sierra ridges on Sunday and Monday. Snow levels will start out at near 7000 feet then drop to near 5000 feet over the weekend. Unsettled weather will likely continue into next week.
Edit: SCseagoat, I'm digging the history. Thanks!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Nov 15, 2012 - 04:30pm PT
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It's not snowing so much today..
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 17, 2012 - 07:50pm PT
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Oh Big Mike, NICE NICE NICE.
Anyone with real time, "boots on the ground" info on Bridger Bowl or conditions in Hyalite Canyon in Bozeman please chirp up. I'd like to head up there after Thanksgiving if conditons are good.
Thanks,
Susan
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Nov 19, 2012 - 12:56pm PT
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Yup. It's snowing!!
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