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Eejit posted:Idk I was just word vomiting the article I read Yeah no worries, it took me a bit to sanity check in my head. More sliding today inbounds as well, nobody caught in it fortunately. These aren’t normal conditions for us and it seems challenging for the established patrol operations to deal with it well.
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Trip to Banff is coming up next week. Looks like I just dodged the cold. -50c wind chills today. My home mountain is slated to get a foot and a half of snow (and rain lol) right as I'm leaving too. Urghh, at least my kids will have fun with their grandparents. First trip without kids since they were born so still excited. Mr Newsman fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Steve French posted:Yeah no worries, it took me a bit to sanity check in my head. it seems like ppl ducked the rope and triggered it for day 2
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Steve French posted:Yeah no worries, it took me a bit to sanity check in my head. Welcome to the Colorado snowpack! regulargonzalez posted:Wind-chill for tomorrow is supposed to be -15 F. Gonna wear all the layers. Touring into a hut today. Skins on snow at 9. Surely we will be warm and nobody will freeze their dick off
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Jan 12, 2024 14:44
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Time posted:it seems like ppl ducked the rope and triggered it for day 2 Interesting, where’d you hear that? Seemed to me like patrol had opened the bowl but I don’t have that on solid authority. Pretty fuckin brazen and stupid if true, considering the circumstances. Guess I can’t be too surprised though
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ducking a rope the day after a fatal in-bounds slide would be incredibly stupid
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I know no one likes the French, still no reason to piss all over their toilet seats. Jesus Christ, there were quite some pigs over at Les Arcs this week. I'm considering switching from a bib to pants, which hopefully makes it easier to hover poo poo.
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Steve French posted:Interesting, where’d you hear that? Seemed to me like patrol had opened the bowl but I don’t have that on solid authority. Pretty fuckin brazen and stupid if true, considering the circumstances. Guess I can’t be too surprised though a patroller there posted that to their Insta story and then deleted it. Could be a lie/misunderstanding but the person is really a patroller there
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I heard they just did a high traverse in bounds, rather than hiking (the hikes were closed but traversing the bowl was open). e: this thread had a lot of discussion on the issue, some with employee friends saying rope was cut, some with employee friends saying no rope was cut, some who were actually there (both working on the mountain and in the probe line) saying no rope was cut 🤷♀️ https://old.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/194i8tf/second_avalanche_hits_palisades_tahoe_ski_resort/khgj954/ Splinter fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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I'm in Wengen for the weekend, watched the downhill today.  This is Bryce Bennett on his way through Canadian Corner
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The weather station at Breck Peak 8 hit an 119 mph gust around 6am this morning. That's a little intense.
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 Give me all the snow. Also: I preheat my boots and wear really good socks and after 4 or 5 runs my toes are ice. Didn't used to happen but guess I'm getting old. Tips and tricks? Or do I need to just buy a heated liner or heated socks or something
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Unbuckle on chairlifts. Make sure your core is plenty warm. Beyond that yeah just get some heaters.
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Was kinda nice down there in France. First two days was poo poo visibility due to fog. This was on the third day, with fog gone below 1800ish meters.
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I've dropped 40k vertical since Saturday, combination of Sugarbush and Mad River. Mad River is a powder playground with country club waits right now.  Lower Paradise on Monday; Paradise was closed so I did the normal MRG woods dance just below the ropes to get into as much of it as I could. Today the whole thing was wide open with another foot of snow on top of it, and I was absolutely blasting glades I usually have to go very slowly through. Managed to do a hilarious but not bad missed turn on Paradise today where I lost both skis and somehow ended up holding what I thought was my ski pole but turned out to just be a random branch.  I love finding spots where foxes and other small critters have been through more recently than humans, even if it's less than reassurring from the "I ski solo mostly" perspective. Ah, well, I am well insured and if this poo poo eats me one day, remember that I died doing a thing I love: shivering, hopefully unconscious, under a pile of snow and brush. And hey, we may not have "powder bowls" and "10k elevation" out here; I've also heard of exactly one resort avalanche here in the last 5 years and no one was seriously hurt.
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Polarized goggles, yay or nay? Friend on our trip last week swore on it, but I didn't really try his goggles.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Polarized goggles, yay or nay? Friend on our trip last week swore on it, but I didn't really try his goggles. Yay imo. Polarized good for sunny snow (esp ice) and water.
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Polarized photochromic is a huge quality of life improvement over normal goggles in anything but very flat light, where you need a persimmon or other specific lens anyway. I replaced my ancient Zeal Link goggles with some (I think) Nomads last season and really like them. (They call their photochromic lenses “automatic”).
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waffle enthusiast posted:Polarized photochromic is a huge quality of life improvement over normal goggles in anything but very flat light, where you need a persimmon or other specific lens anyway. I replaced my ancient Zeal Link goggles with some (I think) Nomads last season and really like them. (They call their photochromic lenses “automatic”). Yeah, photochromatic and polarized are very good quality of life enhancements. If I had to choose between one of them, I'd go polarized though.
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A mid week PTO day at Crystal turned out great with powder and no lines. I'm conflicted with how good the mountain is but it's just hard to commit to the distance and costs. Everyone who loves it has a cabin it seems. The wind did pick up and blow my buddy off his skis which made me laugh. https://i.imgur.com/Kk0gaC1.mp4  
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waffle enthusiast posted:Polarized photochromic is a huge quality of life improvement over normal goggles in anything but very flat light, where you need a persimmon or other specific lens anyway. I replaced my ancient Zeal Link goggles with some (I think) Nomads last season and really like them. (They call their photochromic lenses “automatic”).
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I had some Zeal photo chromatic lenses and I really liked them but not as much as I like the I/O Mags. One blackout lens and one low light lens and you’re set.
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Is anyone going to Mount snow this season? I have a favor to ask if you are. My son is getting pretty heavy into snowboarding, and we went up earlier this season. He decided that he wants to get a patch from all the places he's gone to for his gear bag, but we didn't get one while we were up there. If anyone's going let me know and I can venmo you the money for the patch and postage
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Moot .1415926535 posted:I had some Zeal photo chromatic lenses and I really liked them but not as much as I like the I/O Mags. One blackout lens and one low light lens and you’re set.
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I suppose you could get a more all-purpose photochromatic lens for the I/Os but the blackout lenses just look too good to ignore.
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Any recommendations for a ski boot bag that also has room for a helmet and ideally some clothing like jacket/pant shells, thermals, goggles and gloves (gloves/googles realistically can just be shoved in the helmet/boots so not a huge concern there) that also can reliably fit in overhead bins? I know Dakine makes a few of various sizes but I'm having a bit of trouble sizing them. There's the DLX 75L for instance but 75L is backpacking backpack sized and the spec'd dimensions are larger than many carryon requirements. I'm thinking the Boot 50L would still be more than sufficient, but even that is weirdly dimensioned in terms of fitting in an overhead bin (listed at 19x14 x13 vs carry-ons being limited to 9 in the small dimension e.g. 22x14x 9). I'm S/M sized so that does make fitting everything a bit easier.
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Just make sure you carry it on, luggage conveyors like to nibble on them as a little treat and will ruin your trip. There's a TikTok floating around of the aftermath that Southwest did on someone's soft boot bag.
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A boot bag that fits all that stuff is not going to reliably fit in overhead bins. When I fly with skis my strategy is the following: -Large padded roller ski bag (Dakine Fall Line) which has two pair skis, poles, all ski wear including base/mid/outerwear/socks/gloves, pack it right up to the 50 lbs checked bag limit. This is my only checked bag. -Carry-on backpack/duffel with all other clothes and stuff, usually helmet ends up here. This goes into the overhead bin. I use an older version of this bag which is 60L and looks sturdier than the new 55L ones imo. -Boots naked, strapped together with booster straps, carried on as my "personal item" for under the seat. These also go into the overhead bin if space isn't an issue on the flight. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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bawfuls posted:A boot bag that fits all that stuff is not going to reliably fit in overhead bins. When I fly with skis my strategy is the following: This is exactly the right move. The real reason to always carry on your ski boots is that they are the most crucial and difficult to replace/borrow piece of ski equipment you've got. You're asking for trouble if you put them in checked baggage. My trip to Chamonix last year spending a week skiing with a very well known pro skier (part of an organized trip I paid for not humblebragging about being bros with a famous person) who made the rookie mistake of checking his boots even though he knew better, and naturally his luggage got lost. Checked boots: Not even once.
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Steve French posted:My trip to Chamonix last year spending a week skiing with a very well known pro skier who made the rookie mistake of checking his boots even though he knew better, and naturally his luggage got lost.
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For boot bags you can get other stuff in you want to look for the stuff racers use. I have a Leki bag that will take a good amount of gear, something like this https://www.leki.com/ch/en/Skiboot-Bag-WCR-60L/360052006 I see a lot of similar Rossignol bags.
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Yeah my plan is definitely to carry on the boots. I have a big 2 ski padded roller bag that I normally use how you described bawfuls, but I'm not going to be bringing it this trip as it'll a) be significantly more expensive than renting quality skis due to LCC shiet + 4 flights of bag fees, and b) dealing with a big ski bag in Japan airports/trains is apparently a PITA, and I'm only going to be skiing for half the trip. Also worried ZipAir would actually hassle me for having 2 pairs of skis + gear in the bag even though most carriers dgaf about that. Guess I'll probably end up throwing the helmet and other gear in a large checked bag, then bring my boots loose as a personal item (as suggested) along with my ski backpack on the plane. also trip report: Tuesday ski'd great at Palisades due to the snow from the previous week and cool temps. Even got some fresh steepish turns going off the Granite lift lookers right as I believe they hadn't opened that lift until Monday and they must not've dropped the rope to the right until Tuesday. But Tuesday it warmed and basically rained all night at lower elevations which turned most of what was open on Wednesday into a sheet of ice (Resort Chair was actually OK but on the other side everything down from Far East was basically ice). Pretty sad even overnight temps didn't end up getting cold enough.
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  There was still lots of snow in my favorite glades at MRG yesterday. It's cold as poo poo today, sub-10F. Tomorrow is gonna be a little warmer and I'll drag kiddo out, also taking work off tuesday to go to Sugarbush all day with a friend I haven't skiied with in a year.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:
That little sticker is such a cop out anyway. A true fan would rock the full red and white bumper sticker. Elsewhere, western Maine backcountry is in and skiing great. Nothing like the deep and fluffy VT has but it’s good and staying that way for the foreseeable future. 
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Welp. Bought new skis. Took ‘em out today and I think my season may be done. Knee is about a useful as a rusty hinge. Cool cool. Season’s just getting good too.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:
Can’t you practically walk from Sugarbush to MRG?
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waffle enthusiast posted:Welp. Bought new skis. Took ‘em out today and I think my season may be done. Knee is about a useful as a rusty hinge. Aw man. Sorry 😔 I also took new (to me) skis out today, Elan Wingman 82s, and had a blast and a half. Just furthered my belief, as a newish + intermediate skier, that all the dunderheads on Reddit who recommend a mid-90 mm width ski as a one-ski-quiver for new skiers are either idiots or assholes.
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Murgos posted:Can’t you practically walk from Sugarbush to MRG?  You'd start at MRG, skin up to the top, then along the Long Trail, do a run down Mt. Ellen (Sugarbush North), then skin up through Slide Brook/Villar Run over to Castlerock and then ski on down. They stopped it right before COVID, and I cannot see it coming back with current management of Sugarbush which is a real shame.
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