JoshK Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 Who got out for some early season turns this weekend? If you did, where and how was it? Quote
savaiusini Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 Chinook Pass was pretty sweet yesterday. It went from zero inches last week, to about 20" and was good, dense, base building snow. Virtually no bottoming out on rocks! We gotta have the snow level drop a lot more though! --think cold, precipitous thoughts! Quote
JoshK Posted November 11, 2002 Author Posted November 11, 2002 Sweet. I figured chinook pass might be good. We drove near by (over cayuse pass) on our way up the stevens canyon road (now closed). Oops, I meant to post this too: We toured about a mile on the stevens canyong road, then the trail up to pinnacle saddle. We traversed from the saddle to beneath the castle-pinnacle col and over onto the pinnacle "glacier" We did a few runs there and then toured back out to the car. It wsa a great day! Really beautiful too. Quote
salbrecher Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 The rest of my group tryed to ski about 10cm of snow on grass and rock at the Hurly Silver Mine cabin on the duffy lake road. Unfortunatly the person putting skiis on the car though it would be funny to leave to roof rack undone, and I forgot to check it . One of my skiis decided to take flight in the first few kilometers of the trip and despite a lengthy search could not be recovered . Quote
salbrecher Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Skisports: And I thought my core shot was bad "Core Shot"? Quote
Skisports Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 If this is all the skiers this is sad, I guess there are not many "real" skiers in this state. Quote
Skisports Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 "Core shot" as in base repair "p-tex". Quote
JRCO Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 Don't mean to rub it in. I took my $299 season ski pass and spent all weekend skiing powder at Keystone. Quote
Crackbolter Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 To be a real skier you need real snow, not duff on dirt. Quote
salbrecher Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 quote: Originally posted by JRCO: Don't mean to rub it in. I took my $299 season ski pass and spent all weekend skiing powder at Keystone. Quote
Skisports Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 No worries, lift skiing is like sport climbing and trad climbing is like BC or touring I lift skiing when I want easy turns. But when I want to ski the real freshies i tour [ 11-11-2002, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Skisports ] Quote
pete_a Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 went to rainier on sunday...could skin up right from the parking lot at paradise (being careful of course not to stray from the asphalt trail and damage any foliage). Skinned up to about 8200ft yoyo'ed for a while then started down...flat light, visbility varied a lot, but enough snow (barely enough down low) to ski all the way back to the parking lot. It'll be even better next weekend! the flats below pan point: http://www.pottier.com/nic/down.jpg traversing onto the snout of the snowfield: http://www.pottier.com/nic/traverse_small.jpg [ 11-11-2002, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: pete a ] Quote
philfort Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 Heliotrope Ridge on Sunday... it was good for November. Pretty flat light, and a little wind-crusted up on the glacier, but no rocks of course. With each run the snow seemed to get better and less crusty (?). The best snow was down in the meadows below the glacier, but it was only about 15-20 inches deep... had to go fast in order not to hit rocks. Quote
Billygoat Posted November 11, 2002 Posted November 11, 2002 I wasn't able to make it off the Island, but me and a couple buds watched "Soul Slide". Good shots and soundtrack, not put together as well as Nils Larsen's "Big mountain, Little Skier". Worth seeing. We also watched Lynn Hill freeing "The Nose". Not well put together but WOW! Anyone know if The Cascade River Road is still open to the upper parking lot? I was thinking of going up there this weekend. Quote
salbrecher Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 quote: Originally posted by philfort: Heliotrope Ridge on Sunday... it was good for November. Pretty flat light, and a little wind-crusted up on the glacier, but no rocks of course. With each run the snow seemed to get better and less crusty (?). The best snow was down in the meadows below the glacier, but it was only about 15-20 inches deep... had to go fast in order not to hit rocks. "only about 15-20 inches deep"!!! How much more can you ask for?! Quote
jhamaker Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 http://www.turns-all-year.com Backcountry skiing trip reports, weather, snow, avalanche, NWAC telemetry, trail, and forest road conditions for year-round backcountry carving, in the Pacific Northwest. Quote
Beck Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 I had plans to ski, but got talked out of carrying my boards by a snowboarding climber buddy- what a mistake! We were slogging thru a foot of dense powder that more than covered up the rocks, The touring and turns would have been Fantastic! Why do i keep listening to bad judgement snowboarders? Quote
Skisports Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 it would of been better snow to snowboard then tele because it was a bit heavy but I had great turns for the first of the year Quote
texplorer Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 If you weren't at Smith you missed >11 8=Der's savoring monos and buckets. Quote
Skisports Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 sounds like you climbed 8 gallon buckets one to many times Quote
iain Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 That's 18.93 Litre buckets for you canadians Quote
JoshK Posted November 12, 2002 Author Posted November 12, 2002 Enjoy the early season turns at keystone. By February you'll be enjoying another lovely Colorado ski season; a whopping 30" base and lovely groomers! Talk to me in July when I'm still touring on awesome terrain with plenty of sweet corn snow! BTW, Dave, are you getting your base repaired this week? From the weather it is looking like next weekend might be some pretty good touring. I think I'm gonna hold off for a few weeks and let them fix all the damage at once! Quote
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