Alpental wxw

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10 years 2 days ago #226131 by gravitymk
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Today - Wet and skiing well, devoid of people - not wxw though.
Sink holes, glide cracks and climax activity.

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9 years 11 months ago #226165 by flowing alpy
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Been pretty much wall to wall to crack to hole back to chair last month or three.
Padded Seats got a break from my ass today as we plundered The Hurricane Ridge, aka, Carnage Hill. Pretty sure my spot was filled during a ski skool day.

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9 years 11 months ago - 9 years 11 months ago #226178 by pipedream
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wXw again today, good vis under high clouds this morning made it easy to spot the holes and cracks, although a few snuck up on me (e.g. skier's left on Billington's) as the weather transitioned around noon. A brief snow shower passed thru while patrol held up traffic and blasted the cornii overlooking Sharon's knolls, but the delay was trivial and the work resulted in soft debris instead of vehicle-sized chunks. The singleplank crowd kept to the "middle" T and worked it in well enough that only a few pushes were necessary to get to knoll 3. Didn't feel like putting in the effort to boot up to PP, so we only made it as far as Mach's today, which rode very nice (as did the rest of the knolls, BB, and GB). GB & Heavenly trees were hammered by yesterday's crowd, not so nice in those zones, although the left side of GB did ride quite nice. Ended-up on the isthmus between the creeks in TC on the 2nd lap of the day, that was not pleasant and I'd advise staying either left or right of that gully entirely as riding a thin strip between two raging, open creeks with massive holes into them is not a fun time. Also re-learned that if you traverse really hard left in H Trees, you can get to the entrance of Sweet Little Annie - thank God for Black Hole being right there because the former is not an option at the moment. 34F and snowing hard when I left @ 4:30pm...

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9 years 11 months ago #226183 by flowing alpy
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I had some time to think about the cornii today, they appeared to be basking in the sun. I scooted under them quietly around 930 this morning, the overnight wind had effected the snow underneath their cliffs creating some styro pockets making early travel slow. With the help of a couple friends we trudged forth to find our destined area Stoke's. From that point forward the day just got better.

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9 years 11 months ago #226206 by Lot 2
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Sunday was awesome, pretty close to untracked all day, until you hit the lower.

PS: They aren't kidding about cracks, holes and "things you can fall into". Didn't scope elevator or anything that close in but Billington's skiers right near the bottom is no fall territory these days, FYI.

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9 years 11 months ago #226212 by Griff
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Yes it was wall to wall at opening bell. Thanks to the above friends that cut the traverse, we all had a really fun day. Thanks again. It was hard enough following. I edited out the part where I look at my daughter after crossing the waterfall and say I'm drenched. LOL.

Nothing better than the adventure skiing of the Alpy BC:

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