Boarding Silverton is LITERALLY the only thing my youngest talks about. He's is utterly and completely obsessed with the place. Can't say as I fault him for it.
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Boarding Silverton is LITERALLY the only thing my youngest talks about. He's is utterly and completely obsessed with the place. Can't say as I fault him for it.
You are singing my song, Kento! Ski Wolf creek all day, soak in Pagosa Springs all evening, repeat ad nauseum. Sounds like heaven to me, though I have never done it. I would be all over it but my budget and geographical location has me getting a season pass at another little hill that is very nicely off the mainstream radar. This year we are planning on snow camping to save money on lodging and therefore get MORE DAYS OF SKIING. Gonna be EPIC!!!Hell yeah. Wolf Creek has been on my radar for a long time but haven't got over there. So much more snow than most places in Colorado. And even better to hear that they are fighting the corporate takeover. It also looks like their ticket prices aren't retardedly expensive like other mountains.
The corporate monopolization and overdevelopment of all these mountains (and America in general) really needs to end, preferably at the business end of an avalanche cannon.
While #beachvanlife is annoying as hell, oh man, would it be great to see the foo-foo resorts like Squaw, Aspen, Deer Valley, etc. get absolutely descended on and overtaken by the most dirtbag of van lifers (yes, worse than the Live Life Taste Death guy from Ski Patrol).You are singing my song, Kento! Ski Wolf creek all day, soak in Pagosa Springs all evening, repeat ad nauseum. Sounds like heaven to me, though I have never done it. I would be all over it but my budget and geographical location has me getting a season pass at another little hill that is very nicely off the mainstream radar. This year we are planning on snow camping to save money on lodging and therefore get MORE DAYS OF SKIING. Gonna be EPIC!!!
If I was younger I’d be all over winter camping again especially if there’s snow caves/igloos and snow bunnies involved. Staying in Pagosa Springs means getting shut out way more often and I believe for longer than South Fork when the pass is closed…You are singing my song, Kento! Ski Wolf creek all day, soak in Pagosa Springs all evening, repeat ad nauseum. Sounds like heaven to me, though I have never done it. I would be all over it but my budget and geographical location has me getting a season pass at another little hill that is very nicely off the mainstream radar. This year we are planning on snow camping to save money on lodging and therefore get MORE DAYS OF SKIING. Gonna be EPIC!!!
After this series of rain, the fire danger should be low enough to use chainsaws at my local ski mtn. I am volunteering to drop trees in order to open up tight spots - in exchange for our pa$$es and RV $pot.
done with treatments. final reconstruction surgery likely to be in december after she' s healed up enough.Yyyyeeeewwww!!!!
How's the wife, she back at 100% and frothing for snow?
I’m only shooting for 10 daysTotally. When I was younger and lucky to get 3 ski days a year the concept of the lunch break seemed utterly insane to me.
Now that I'm 52 and shooting for 30 days, a half hour break to rest, eat, and hydrate is starting to really make sense to me.
i'm using covid as an excuse to pee in the trees this season - allegedly to do my part in reducing the lodge crowd and corresponding covid transmission risk - but really just because i like to pee in the treesutah days are generally pee breaks only
JK about the meadow skipping, but not about hipsters lol. Price is right and I’m all for not screwing around with Avalanches ala you will never see me in the backcountry.This could be a pretty epic covid ski destination.....
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Hell yeah. The hike in and the hike out may suck but that is all worth it to be bombing that first tracks.
It's like one of the few times in existence that south winds are favorable for something. Will load up and reload the mid to bottom with "powder" by time you get back around. Hemlock (easily my favorite run there) is notorious for that. I just couldn't stop going back for more - record of 13 runs on it in one day; it was just too good. Breaking trail on that can kind of suck though.I like it best when you can ride the wind to the top of Daves and score free refills of windbuff all day.
It's like one of the few times in existence that south winds are favorable for something. Will load up and reload the mid to bottom with "powder" by time you get back around. Hemlock (easily my favorite run there) is notorious for that. I just couldn't stop going back for more - record of 13 runs on it in one day; it was just too good. Breaking trail on that can kind of suck though.
I know how to troll Bob out of lurking: of all the mountains I've been to (a fair amount; nothing crazy), the best run to this day and it doesn't come close is Canis Lupis at the Canyons in Utah. It's like Hot Wheels Gully at Alpine x50. My quads burn at the thought. I have to consciously do other runs earlier in the day because once I get over on that side of the mountain, the day is done. It's the only run I'll do because it's just that good why would you deviate?
BTW, inside knowledge, a cheap trick to getting first tracks at top of Mammoth is when 23 opens after Gondola 2. Screw torn-up Climax. Hustle by bombing roadrunner and then hike/run remainder to top of 23 before the first people on that lift get to the top. Nothing better that the line of stinkeyes as you bomb Dropout while first people on lift are 6 chairs from top. Save the Flats (P3 and P4 to be precise) for run two.
fook I need to go boarding. And I need to find a way to do Mammoth for cheap, i.e., not with family (that'll turn it from $150 to $2K). Get hall pass, for midweek day trip perhaps, put kids in bed, take nap, leave at 9, get there at 2, sleep in town a few hours, ride the day, and then return, get home by 8? I think that can be done.
Sucks about the workers getting hosed; no surprise given what everything costs. Aspenization of America sucks; the only people it benefits are the kooks that are there to be seen and Instagrammed. I mean, I could really GAF about whatever panini cafe they have or whatever. I just want to ride, grab a pizza from Nik n Willies, and 12er and crash. Not like there are casinos there. Anyways, yeah, that's why I am considering the midweek day trip strike. Bypass the whole hotel issue.ain't cheap anymore in mammoth. they're even running out of housing for people working on the mountain and in town. friends that own a house up there said they got an email from the city asking it people could house workers in any spare bedroom they have.
as far as windblown, best was Chair 5 when they groom a strip right under the lift line. then it had blown there and was just doing big turns all the way down throwing spray. Off Chair 9 towards 5 is a good section for wind blown too.