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Big Mike
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BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
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Nice pics John! Both those zones look like they could be fun with some freshies.. There's lots of snow in the east this year no?
I'm not gonna lie Bruce. As Ryan has said, it's still a little boney down there.
But the foundation has been laid. I'm a strong believer that we will have at least one more system in march with good temperatures.
Kyle and Nina on lower cutline
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
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Just a piece of it Bruce. And yes there are.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
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Feb 28, 2014 - 08:45pm PT
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2 powder days in a row at Kirkwood! Looking like tomorrow will be another one. So stoked right now!!!! No pictures to share, couldn't stop had to get the freshies haha!
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
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A low angle, but fun one at Kirkwood on Saturday.
Change the setting to 720hd for the best quality.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
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Gnar of the day! Mott canyon, heavenly.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Snow. Yes.
Susan
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose and south lake tahoe, ca
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Good to see you're getting some days in Susan!!
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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There's lots of snow in the east this year no?
An unusual amount of the snow fell south of the ski hills. One of my HS classmates, broke her wrist skiing in Virginia around the holidays. I didn't even know there was skiing in Virginia and in a normal year, you'd be taking a risk to book Vermont that early in the season.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Good to see you're getting some days in Susan!! Thanks Brian....not so many in California, but overall doing ok. Was up in Bozeman for awhile and in December I visited my son in Germany and did some "Euro " skiing.
At least I've been getting a lot of biking in!
Susan
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2014 - 11:05pm PT
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Cool Video and pics Brian! Looks like you guys have been getting some precip lately as well! I'm glad.
Cool video TC. That's quite the slide. Class 3+ i would say.
Great to see you on snow Susan!! Did you take any pictures in Germany? I'd love to see em!
That's too bad John. If you make it up here i'd be glad to show you around.
There was a bit of snow Monday morning...
It was blower on top of a frozen solid base.
We found the sweet spot again. Tash dropping in.
Sandra and Tash enjoying the blower freshies.
I went up today for a couple laps.
It was pretty good up there but way heavier, and it was wearing me out pretty quick. I came down early to save some energy for my acupuncture appointment this afternoon.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Mar 11, 2014 - 09:25am PT
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With 24" of new at Bridger Bowl and Big Sky, and Discovery getting a foot--I'd say it's a great powder day to help close out the season.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 21, 2014 - 11:32am PT
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Wow, that was a monster that hit Crystal Mt - right to the ground. That is
highly unusual for the NW to my thinking, especially for March.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
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Good to hear your getting some Mojede!
Crazy avalanche at Crystal eh? Thanks for posting that kunlun shan.
you are right Reilly, it's highly unusual for us to have that kind of action so early. We had a decent start and then a big break which gave the whole coast a pretty crappy persistent weak layer. Then a couple more sh!tty layers on top of that followed by a ton of snow. That was the result.
I've been out a couple times lately. First though i have some pics from my sled day up Brandywine by my new buddy Dan Galic.
Me getting the ski's outta the snow
Dan Galic Photo
Corey doing a little drop
Dan Galic Photo
The snow was super deep that day
Dan Galic Photo
Dan Galic Photo
Corey up on Brandwine Glacier
Dan Galic Photo
Me getting the nose up
Corey again
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2014 - 04:01pm PT
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My buddy Corey has been bugging me to get out Sled Skiing. We got some new snow last week and then it cleared up, so we seized the opportunity.
Pemberton Ski Hill
Corey at the first peak.
When you go sled skiing with just a partner, you need two sleds. One gets left at the bottom of your line, then you double up on the other.
Then after your run, you gotta start the process all over again and take both sleds down. If you're good on the sled, this part is pretty fun too.
First peak downline. I just rode the chute (sledded) on the middle right of the image.
Back at the top we did another stellar run.
Ipsoot Glacier
Corey gets a deep slash in the light before dropping into the chute.
Corey dropping in to another horrible commute back to the bottom so we can snowboard again... lol
Corey getting some
Money Shot!!
Sledding is so rad. You can really make use of the terrain! Up/down, flat, doesn't matter. It's all fun.
After a little lunch we dropped in again.
Corey riding the Dogleg Chute look for the little dot on the face just below the left peak.
Dropping in to yet another epic downline
So much fun!!
The scenery is simply breathtaking
This downline was pretty much the end of the day, but we stopped at the cabin so i could rest my aching back.
Corey rooping the hip in front of Mt Currie
The view from the cabin
The best thing about sleds is the ablity to use terrain that would be absolutely useless to any other gravity based snowsport.
The Cabin and my 2005 Skidoo Summit "The Blue Dragon" She has 17,000km on her. I just keep fixing her up and she treats me nice!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Mar 24, 2014 - 04:28pm PT
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Had one of the best powder days every yesterday...
Day 23...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2014 - 04:47pm PT
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Sick Doug!
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