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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 24, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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Started in 1968 and have been seriously involved with the industry since 1974 (PSIA Certified instructor, Avalanche Certified, sponsored, guided, coached, raced, groomed, patrolled, tech . . . that kind of stuff). Used to get 160 + days a year (easy to do when you live at the ski area or have your office at one and it's your job) now I'm gettin' 45 - 75 days a year.
Gee whiz Looeez! Remind me to be out a town when they start looking for opponents for ya in the BJeanKing-Bobby Riggs charity ski-off.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 24, 2012 - 09:30pm PT
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It's supposed to be doing it in Cowlowrado tonight!
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oct 24, 2012 - 09:43pm PT
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Headed to Bishop ... on our way to Red rocks and Moab....thought we'd go 120.....nooooo....closed. Just last Saturday went through there at 80 degrees! So we'll go 88....at least we can pick up our season passes at Kirkwood.
Hoping to return from mountain biking and going right into skiing. Oh body, please hold out, purdy please.
Susan
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2012 - 01:17pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 26, 2012 - 01:19pm PT
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None here yet. Bridge over untroubled water.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2012 - 01:21pm PT
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Anyone ever make any of these trips?
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Oct 26, 2012 - 02:15pm PT
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I heard Bear Valley had a free day yestday or Wednesday to help say sorry for all the confusion about weather thye would open or not this year. . They said it was for Even the lower mountain was open. I am not sure if it is true or just a rumor.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 26, 2012 - 02:16pm PT
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It's snowing here in Whistler too but not quite in the valley. Its so cool to see the fall colours in the foreground... We don't always get that.....
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Oct 26, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
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Y'awl are lucky!
You've got snow. I'm visiting on Long Island for two weeks.
Hurricane Sandy on it's way for Tues/Wed.
Got to prepare for high wind, downed trees and possibly multi-day power outages!
I'd MUCH rather have that beautiful High Sierra Snow right now.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oct 26, 2012 - 07:52pm PT
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Oh my, Fred do be careful. My family is all in Pa. I'm worried about them. Got a 90 year old Dad but he's rather spry and has good neighbors. My brother is down by Philly.
Drove through the East Side of Sierras today....beautiful. More than a dusting, less than a blizzard.
Susan
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Oct 26, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
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Mt Spokane has 5" right now, more predicted. Discovered on Tuesday that the km of trails at the nordic area is going up by some 10-12 km. The State Park and Inland Empire Paper Company both have x-c skiers as head foresters. All the new trails are ones that the paper company won't let snomobes on anymore because most of the drivers are stupid, so it's all x/c! More trail days coming up to help prepare the new trails. Think snow!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 26, 2012 - 11:34pm PT
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Ekat this beautiful place is what happens when you get Jack Nicklaus to design a world class golf course next to million dollar homes.
These pictures are what you get when a self professed snowboard bum who just happens to own a window washing company 6 months a year goes for a walk around his current property on a snowy fall day with a new iphone armed with a 2.99 hdr pro app which he's currently amazed and enamored with...
And sometimes the peaks pop out of the clouds and make us smile... ;)
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Oct 26, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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Not many folks appear to be playing.
EDIT: thanks for explaining. It's kind of eerie to see millions of dollars of investment and absolutely no people. The photos are great, I'll have to look into that gear.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Oct 26, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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Bitchen contrasts, Big Mike!
I wonder how much snow there is at 12k right now. The pull is strong.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 26, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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zbrown that would be because it is closed for the season. soon to be a cross country ski haven...
Thanks Capt. This app is so cool. I spend multiple hours in photoshop to capture the snow/sky and foreground effect. this app just takes two pics and stiches them together instantly, adjust your saturation.. bam! i'm playing with brackting on my reble now so hopefully i can acheive that same effect with hdr in photoshop and make my life somewhat easier..
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 27, 2012 - 11:14am PT
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Hey eKat do you know the Hood family there in Eureka? Charlie & Dixie Hood had a log home building business there, I've skied and climbed with their three sons.
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Borut
climber
french
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Oct 28, 2012 - 02:16am PT
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This morning offered the first snow flakes of the year in Ljubljana (Slovenia), exactly for DST end.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oct 28, 2012 - 03:37pm PT
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Anyone remember skiing with these long thong bindings? I remember thinking I had died and gone to heaven when I graduated to these in about 1961. I thought I made the big time when I no longer had that funky little cable wire with the snap latch thing in front of the toe. Of course these did hold your heel down so well that a fall could keep your boot secured to the ski, and the heel of the boot (held in with cobbler's nails) stayed with the ski while the upper part of the boot came loose....I know of what I speak! Yes, injuries were rather significant.
Susan
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 29, 2012 - 04:17am PT
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Monday: shoveled for almost 6 hours. Could not believe the needles due to immense winds. It was like I'd done nothing all summer and into fall. Tuesday skinned up Alpine Meadow and skied down, the first skiing since last May. Some good powder turns.
Wednesday: overcast, flattsh lightning, not motivated -- and tired -- to hike and ski. Shoveled for maybe 4 hours.
Thursday: unbelievable! Made being here worth all the needles and yard work crap. Skinned up Five Lakes Trail from Alpine Meadows Road into Squaw Valley terrain. Made 4 laps of fantastic powder on the Olympic Lady East Bowl. Only a few other tracks, ie. hardly any competition for fresh tracks, followed by a pretty great run down KT's iconic West Face (really, more north facing), arguably Squaw's best line. Other attendant things happened that made it an amazing day.
Friday: skinned back up same trail. Wanted to make one more run near East Bowl. If not for 2 gents I encountered skinning up from a different direction I would have been oblivious to the 6 point buck just below me. I'd crossed its tracks but didn't think deer, only coyote. On my return traverse I saw it again and more of its tracks. It had gone either to the highest point of KT, the "Eagle's Nest" or almost to the very top. I was blown away.
Then I traversed to "The Slot" which I hadn't skied in powder for something like a quarter century. There was one set of tracks -- someone had gotten there before me, possibly the day before. But it didn't matter. Due to the return of summer (hiking/skinning up bare chested) the powder had settled somewhat, but it was still worthwhile...and the buck made the day. Got a ride from the resort parking lot the mile home.
---extract from my very latest email from Rick Sylvester at Tahow.
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Oct 29, 2012 - 11:32pm PT
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Well, it WAS snowing. It's all gone from Mt. Spokane. Sigh...
in the meantime, till it starts again, this will have to do.
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