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author=Scotsman link=topic=14339.msg60026#msg60026 date=1257187787]
Yep, that was some hard ice. See what it did to my ski crampon.
I appreciate the graph paper used for scale and perspective...
Concur that conditions were pretty good skiers left from about 9200 feet down to near Pebble Creek. There were huge patches of hard ice mixed in with nice snow patches- never skied back east, but I imagine an east coast skier would have felt right at home on Sunday. No wind to speak of and the sun was out in full force which is always a plus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DTtyaND1oM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DTtyaND1oM
author=PNWBrit link=topic=14339.msg60018#msg60018 date=1257179431]
That youtube clip of "savvy" skiers is our group.
Beautiful day up there with some "interesting" moments on those ice patches.
Yup that looks like us.
Fun day, long walk.
author=NWBCer link=topic=14342.msg60033#msg60033 date=1257205731]
heeeeyyyy... wait a minute Scotsman - it's 3:30pm my time, and I'm sure you're in the same time zone these days.... Uhmm shouldn't someone be WORKING... yikes, some partners ::)
Almost as surprising is that an hour after posting, about 70 people have viewed the post.
I LOVE YOU TAYERS! It's true, on TGR it takes at least 4 or 5 hours before that many would re...
heeeeyyyy... wait a minute Scotsman - it's 3:30pm my time, and I'm sure you're in the same time zone these days.... Uhmm shouldn't someone be WORKING... yikes, some partners ::)
Almost as surprising is that an hour after posting, about 70 people have viewed the post.
I LOVE YOU TAYERS! It's true, on TGR it takes at least 4 or 5 hours before that many would read the post and another couple of hours before someone would respond that 2500 is lame, they slep...
Almost as surprising is that an hour after posting, about 70 people have viewed the post.
I LOVE YOU TAYERS! It's true, on TGR it takes at least 4 or 5 hours before that many would read the post and another couple of hours before someone would respond that 2500 is lame, they slep...
Very nice Gary. ;D
You're skiing pow and we're bending ski crampons on hard ice! The Great North delivers. ;D
You're skiing pow and we're bending ski crampons on hard ice! The Great North delivers. ;D
Yes, very icy day. Here's a couple more pics...
author=Clarence link=topic=14339.msg60025#msg60025 date=1257185673]
Lots of ice, but there were some nice patches too. Those of us that made it all the way up didn't gain any better turns, but got lots of practice skinning up ice. I saw a bunch of people bite it on the ice (myself included). My skinning technique is now greatly improved!
Yep, that was some hard ice. See what it did to my ski crampon.
Lots of ice, but there were some nice patches too. Those of us that made it all the way up didn't gain any better turns, but got lots of practice skinning up ice. I saw a bunch of people bite it on the ice (myself included). My skinning technique is now greatly improved!
author=Robie link=topic=14321.msg60005#msg60005 date=1257135201]
Maybe Gary Vogt is reading this thread and smiling. in the old days we would try like hell and catch him and we always did when he stopped for a fag. Next time Chris I'll tell you the story of the JApanese Malboro man guide on Fuji.
Looking forward to hearing that story Robie, Thanks.
Very Nice Zack. You seem to be settling in real fast.
Looking forward to your Colorado TR's this season
Looking forward to your Colorado TR's this season
Nice 3rd pic, trumpetsailor. That was our group enjoying the scenery on the way down.
The wind deposits and weather helped save an otherwise too icy day.
The wind deposits and weather helped save an otherwise too icy day.
That youtube clip of "savvy" skiers is our group.
Beautiful day up there with some "interesting" moments on those ice patches.
Beautiful day up there with some "interesting" moments on those ice patches.
The unknown skier is my son Peter who does like the bold lines.
Photo attached of him skiing in the drift below the small cornice on the Nisqually side. The other photo shows the skating conditions at Moon Rocks.
Beautiful day though and it was possible to link turns in soft snow almost all the way from Moon Rocks to Pebble Creek.
Youtube of the first skiers to head across to a little soft snow:
http://www.youtube.com/user/freightrainer#p/a
Photo attached of him skiing in the drift below the small cornice on the Nisqually side. The other photo shows the skating conditions at Moon Rocks.
Beautiful day though and it was possible to link turns in soft snow almost all the way from Moon Rocks to Pebble Creek.
Youtube of the first skiers to head across to a little soft snow:
http://www.youtube.com/user/freightrainer#p/a
Maybe Gary Vogt is reading this thread and smiling. in the old days we would try like hell and catch him and we always did when he stopped for a fag. Next time Chris I'll tell you the story of the JApanese Malboro man guide on Fuji.
Joe, it sounds like you should read some Ayn Rand or watch some Gordon Gecko: capitalist greed is a good cause!
"Plus it gives me a sucker to test avy conditions. Sounds like a win/win."
funny
funny
author=Joedabaker link=topic=14321.msg59985#msg59985 date=1257019892]
Let's analyze this one at a time.
If my BC flatulence is a lingering death trap, it must have wicked hangtime to be able to reach your coal miner lungs 100 yards or more behind me breaking trail!
Capitalist greed always supersedes a good cause.
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author=Scotsman link=topic=14321.msg59984#msg59984 date=1257017145]
I have to smoke to protect my lungs from your farting on the skin track! ;)
If I give up, will you promise to let me have first tracks for a full season???????
Let's analyze this one at a time.
If my BC flatulence is a lingering death trap, it must have wicked hangtime to be able to reach your coal miner lungs 100 yards or more behind me break...
I got news for you buddy, Chugach has started smoking as well. Caught him with a pack of camel lights with the neighborhood dogs. Since Pierce county has just banned smoking in all their public spaces and parks, I'm running out of legal places to smoke and the NPS can't be far behind. Damn you all!!
I have to smoke to protect my lungs from your farting on the skin track! ;)
If I give up, will you promise to let me have first tracks for a full season???????
I have to smoke to protect my lungs from your farting on the skin track! ;)
If I give up, will you promise to let me have first tracks for a full season???????
Scotty,
It's good that you are getting this addiction out in the open.
You can do what ever blows your hair back with your health.
Speaking from my personal addiction of skiing, over time it gets more difficult to find willing suckers to go touring with me.
Even though a biopsy of your lung could fuel a coal furnace for a week, my addictive mind says I would hate to have to look for another ski partner who can tolerate my demented sense of humor.
Also, I am going...
It's good that you are getting this addiction out in the open.
You can do what ever blows your hair back with your health.
Speaking from my personal addiction of skiing, over time it gets more difficult to find willing suckers to go touring with me.
Even though a biopsy of your lung could fuel a coal furnace for a week, my addictive mind says I would hate to have to look for another ski partner who can tolerate my demented sense of humor.
Also, I am going...
author=Team Wally link=topic=14321.msg59980#msg59980 date=1256966992]
Chris, it was really easy for me to quit. Did it cold turkey, last smoke was in the ER parking lot just before they rolled me in to the cath lab, 4 years since the heart bypass and I only get the urge daily. Vicious habit. Good luck.
Thanks Craig good advice,
Unfortunately I'm a bad case and fairly fatalistic about i...
Chris, it was really easy for me to quit. Did it cold turkey, last smoke was in the ER parking lot just before they rolled me in to the cath lab, 4 years since the heart bypass and I only get the urge daily. Vicious habit. Good luck.
author=PNWBrit link=topic=14321.msg59977#msg59977 date=1256960688]
I've smoked plenty that I'd have paid $100 for.
Many of them have been scottie's.
The 11th essential. Well maybe 12th.
Now that I think about it,it probably won't work as there have been times when I would have paid $2000 for a cigarette. Like on the 11 hr flight to Santiago. There was a brief moment when I thought &quo...
author=RuSki link=topic=14321.msg59976#msg59976 date=1256959310]
Best of luck man!
Interesting, make it like a competition with pride and money at stake. Sound perfect for me!
Finding a buddy who smokes, wants to give it and who I trust...mmmm..... thats gonna be very hard.
The wife smokes a bit, wants to give it up but... I don't trust her! Damn. ;D
No problem on the advise, I actually appreciated it, sh...
I've smoked plenty that I'd have paid $100 for.
Many of them have been scottie's.
The 11th essential. Well maybe 12th.
Many of them have been scottie's.
The 11th essential. Well maybe 12th.
the trick Scotsman, is to put some money into it. You gotta get a smoking buddy who also wants to quit and make a bet. First person to smoke (yes taking a drag counts) looses. Works every time. No cigarette is worth a few hundred bucks. And you gotta trust this dude, otherwise it turns sour quickly.
I suggest getting a little drunk first, it helps to make the bet in the first place.
On that note Im through with telling a perfect stranger how to live his life.
Best of luck man!
I suggest getting a little drunk first, it helps to make the bet in the first place.
On that note Im through with telling a perfect stranger how to live his life.
Best of luck man!
Hey Denny,
I talked to you on your way up, just cresting Pan. Glad to hear you had a good time. I'm envious of your solitude time - it was a busy day on the snow field earlier.
The two people I felt sorry for were the two women I passed on the way down. They had skinned up to Pan, then turned around and postholed their way down, carrying their gear. All the work and none of the fun - a zero on the ol' Joy-O-Meter. For one of them it was her...
I talked to you on your way up, just cresting Pan. Glad to hear you had a good time. I'm envious of your solitude time - it was a busy day on the snow field earlier.
The two people I felt sorry for were the two women I passed on the way down. They had skinned up to Pan, then turned around and postholed their way down, carrying their gear. All the work and none of the fun - a zero on the ol' Joy-O-Meter. For one of them it was her...
author=Rusty Knees link=topic=14321.msg59972#msg59972 date=1256956191]
BTW, was it me with the hamburger?
Well I didn't want to say anything at the time and the double whopper at the trailhead was just carbo-loading right ? , but when you brought out your Macdonald's Happy Meal at the top of Table mountain and then complained and started crying because you didn't get the Princess Leia toy , I knew you had a pr...
Having skied with Scotsman a few times, I will admit I would never catch up to him if he didn't stop to take a puff now and then...I don't think it's slowing him down one iota.
BTW, was it me with the hamburger?
BTW, was it me with the hamburger?
I was thinking also how two people have brought up I was smoking, not that I mind , I don't but it made me realize that heckling somebody for smoking has become socially acceptable in America even if you are not doing it in their vicinity.
I mean turn the tables.
Lets say
I was standing in Paradise and noticed a skier in another car who was say obviously overweight eating a hamburger would it be socially acceptable to then say in a post " I noticed you where eating a ham...
I mean turn the tables.
Lets say
I was standing in Paradise and noticed a skier in another car who was say obviously overweight eating a hamburger would it be socially acceptable to then say in a post " I noticed you where eating a ham...
author=Marcus link=topic=14321.msg59961#msg59961 date=1256942326]
I went outside without a jacket on the other day.
Yeah, pretty manly.
Lol,
It was like being back in Bariloche again Marcus.
Thats what I said to Snowbell,
"last time I skied in conditions as shitty as this I'd caught 5 planes , travelled for 36 hrs and spent a lot of money, at least this is much cheaper".
author=RuSki link=topic=14321.msg59960#msg59960 date=1256941513]
Also, being an x smoker, I attest that the universe hates cigarettes. I expereinced a 67.5% increase in vert feet of powder as soon as I quit.
How did you give up smoking, cold turkey, nic patches, chantex???
I've tried them all.
Cold Turkey-- the people I live and work with made me smoke a cigarette because I was so irritable.
Nic Patches-- Had t...
Wednesday was an awesome day…inially jealous of a Tuesday post I'm thrilled the way Wednesday actually turned out!
I was the lone skier lugging alpine gear up the mountain later in the afternoon. At least 15 skiers passed me heading down as I was on my way up. The clouds were interesting throughout the afternoon as we were basically in between layers of cloulds, I could see the brightness at times above on the snowfield that the earlier skiers were enjoying before I g...
I was the lone skier lugging alpine gear up the mountain later in the afternoon. At least 15 skiers passed me heading down as I was on my way up. The clouds were interesting throughout the afternoon as we were basically in between layers of cloulds, I could see the brightness at times above on the snowfield that the earlier skiers were enjoying before I g...
I went outside without a jacket on the other day.
Yeah, pretty manly.
Yeah, pretty manly.
perhaps "ardently hoping" for snow is just not enough... but look on the bright side:
survival skiing is an important skill in the ski-mountaineering repertoire. You are now better prepared for life changing descents.
Also, being an x smoker, I attest that the universe hates cigarettes. I expereinced a 67.5% increase in vert feet of powder as soon as I quit.
survival skiing is an important skill in the ski-mountaineering repertoire. You are now better prepared for life changing descents.
Also, being an x smoker, I attest that the universe hates cigarettes. I expereinced a 67.5% increase in vert feet of powder as soon as I quit.
author=CookieMonster link=topic=14321.msg59956#msg59956 date=1256936908]
Courageous. I need to increase my manliness by a factor of 2.1. Does biking in the rain count?
Only if you wear shorts and no gloves. ;)
Nothing courageous in our trip nor implied, sometimes revelling in the glory of bad weather becomes its own reward when the skiing is bad.
Courageous. I need to increase my manliness by a factor of 2.1. Does biking in the rain count?
The rain @ 9K was indisputable.
My thoughts of powder 1000' higher gave way to the realization of another 1000' of driving rain and wind.
Can you imagine had we continued to Muir and sought refuge in the shelter how miserable it would have been to re-emerge in those conditions soaked to the bone? That would have sucked much worse than the simple transition in the rain @ 9K. Good thing I had the voice of reason and experience along. ;D
My thoughts of powder 1000' higher gave way to the realization of another 1000' of driving rain and wind.
Can you imagine had we continued to Muir and sought refuge in the shelter how miserable it would have been to re-emerge in those conditions soaked to the bone? That would have sucked much worse than the simple transition in the rain @ 9K. Good thing I had the voice of reason and experience along. ;D
author=Snow Bell link=topic=14321.msg59943#msg59943 date=1256926929]
Speak for yourself stupid!
I was out having tough guy practice. My cushy life of sleeping in, hanging out with kids and sitting in my recliner necessitates artificial adversity to keep my man index high. Besides, all of my ski gear got washed.
There was another slide on the ridge just below the natural that we came across that I saw on our way down. That must have been the...
Wow, you really did have it bad. Sounds worse then H1N1.
Must be the antibiotics I'm on. I felt nothing like that yesterday morning.
Must be the antibiotics I'm on. I felt nothing like that yesterday morning.
author=Scotsman link=topic=14321.msg59941#msg59941 date=1256926246]
No ,it shows our stupidity!
Speak for yourself stupid!
I was out having tough guy practice. My cushy life of sleeping in, hanging out with kids and sitting in my recliner necessitates artificial adversity to keep my man index high. Besides, all of my ski gear got washed.
author=Scotsman link=topic=14321.msg599...
author=skierlyles link=topic=14321.msg59938#msg59938 date=1256924322]
Wow, nice work guys- I cannot believe you made it up that high with that nasty of conditions. Sure shows your perseverance.
Any pictures of the horrendous conditions? Between the two of you there was probably none but I figured I would ask.
Glad your swine flu is better.
No ,it shows our stupidity!
No pics.
Wow, nice work guys- I cannot believe you made it up that high with that nasty of conditions. Sure shows your perseverance.
Any pictures of the horrendous conditions? Between the two of you there was probably none but I figured I would ask.
Glad your swine flu is better.
Any pictures of the horrendous conditions? Between the two of you there was probably none but I figured I would ask.
Glad your swine flu is better.
author=solsoul link=topic=14321.msg59929#msg59929 date=1256910778]
We were the couple behind you guys. I was going to ask if you were Scotsman but I could never quite catch up to where you were. I have seen your car before. I figured anyone smoking (cigarettes) and skiing had to be European (are you really a Scot??). It sounds like you guys didn't go to much further then we did. Skiing Washingtons finest freshest slush while dodging rocks wasn'...
We were the couple behind you guys. I was going to ask if you were Scotsman but I could never quite catch up to where you were. I have seen your car before. I figured anyone smoking (cigarettes) and skiing had to be European (are you really a Scot??). It sounds like you guys didn't go to much further then we did. Skiing Washingtons finest freshest slush while dodging rocks wasn't the greatest day skiing I have ever had but a day skiing still beats a day a...
author=drew0620 link=topic=14321.msg59923#msg59923 date=1256881642]
Wow. I was up there last Thursday. Posts a day or two ago made mine look horrible. Yours makes mine look great!
I think I'll wait another two weeks! It's hard though. Just bought a whole new suit and want to put it to the test!
Yep it was nasty, if you look at the telemetry there was some high max wind speeds. It would blow steady for a while...
Wow. I was up there last Thursday. Posts a day or two ago made mine look horrible. Yours makes mine look great!
I think I'll wait another two weeks! It's hard though. Just bought a whole new suit and want to put it to the test!
I think I'll wait another two weeks! It's hard though. Just bought a whole new suit and want to put it to the test!
Looking good guys, here's hoping it lasts through to saturday
-lee
-lee