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Excellent report. I promise not to tell anyone.

author=pipedream link=topic=30238.msg126567#msg126567 date=1389042157]
If I'm not mistaken, you two were the fastest moving splitboarders I've ever seen.

Right, most are slow as molasses. And more attracted to pow pow than Shoer's in tights.

that slide alder picture sort of reminds me of Bev Doolittle ;-)

wow!  great pictures and it looks like you guys scored an amazing day up there.    i'm envious :)

author=gregL link=topic=30231.msg126544#msg126544 date=1389024673]
Snakedance was full-on adventure skiing, especially the lower section.

Haw! Affirmative to that! It was good skiing, but I don't have all the twists and turns of the Snake memorized. Ended up ALMOST cliffing out skiers' right near old poma slope, just a few minutes of day light left, and had to commit to semicontrolled slide off a little 8-footer.

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Nash WAS pretty tracked out - looked like a midweek day when the lifts are running, but skied OK. Fresh tracks still available in Knoll 1/Widowmaker area for those that were interested. Snakedance was full-on adventure skiing, especially the lower section.

Thanks for the photos, both of the mountain and of your tracks!  Amazing to be able to drive to the trail head in January.

Thanks for the video.  Always enjoyable.

Great pictures, beautiful day out there. I was in the party behind you two. We did Union and then Jove, hitting the top about 20 mins after you skied off. Definitely liked the left line as the safer option, and from what we saw skinning up the sunnier ridge it was probably better snow too. Awesome conditions up top, and even the tight stuff coming down to the road was pretty fun.

Btw - was up there nearby but at lower elev today and there was alot of hoar from the last couple cold nig...

Thanks for doing the TR Kenji. That last picture is classic!
David

Once again… thanks for the diligent reporting.  Can't wait for a good base out there!

looks beautiful.  great way to deal with uncertainty, embrace it, change the terrain and poof the pressure is off !

I guess I'll compromise a bit to chime in and say that we saw quite a bit of surface hoar (~1/2" on the flats below the face of Jove, see photos). Stevens telemetry isn't warming up much today, so that stuff might survive the warming.

A couple afternoon ski cuts on sunny slopes got all of the new snow moving. It was a little different making a cut that felt wet/springlike, but seeing powdery chunks moving downhill. Bed surface was firm but easily edgeable.

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Your dog is killing it, Mofro. Geeb too.

author=camp_fidalgo link=topic=30212.msg126483#msg126483 date=1388884543]
Think itll be good tomorrow? Given the warm up?

I'd say there's a good chance it might or might not be.

Here's a photo of the slide. We were up there around 11:30 am. We didn't see it slide. That was the only big thing we saw. Saw a few wet loose slides as it warmed up but nothing like Eckels described in the Baker environs.



Original size photo: http://mattgoyer.smugmug.com/BackcountrySkiing-1/Avy-Refresher/i-8fFBFh2/0/O/DSC00213.jpg

I 'crossed' it up on one of the golf courses, here in Reno, NV as a result of our cold/ dry conditions. A par 4, 475 yds.

Great day. I'd put it at 10-12" sparkly sugar @5500ft, 6"down to ~4K, and a meager 2" at the base-yet MUCH improved all around. Some evidence of wind transport and a just a few slippery spots,  but no evidence of slide activity on all aspects below 5500ft. . A little unnerving to have the Heli pacing back and forth through the valley in the afternoon.

A few from today-

I can't speak for Alpental but sunny slopes at baker were moving down to the crust layer and propogating fairly wide all day. Tomorrow will be sketch in the North.

My best runs always seem to end right here!

Best day ever on the golf course today.

Sunny, 20 degrees F, a bit of new snow, with a freshly groomed track.



Temperatures are supposed to drop to 25 to 35 below zero by Monday. The governor of Minnesota has already canceled all the schools for that day. We're heading home tomorrow, just in time to miss it (I hope).

Happy New Year!

Nice work - saw some of John's pics on FB but it's great to see the report to go with it.

Just talked to Mike, and he will not have to wear a cast, and can ski when he can stand the pain, it will realistically be weeks (maybe 6) but much better than a cast, and non weight bearing.

how do they feel about fat skis on the skin track ;D
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author=bs. link=topic=30157.msg126401#msg126401 date=1388695654]
..."a bad day in a slide alder thicket is still better than a good day at work". 

nice.