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Awwwwwh man! Wish I would have been there! I was workin' instead of playin'. >:(

Great TR as usual. Hopefully see you next week.

Michael

2/13/05 10:36pm

JMor

Before you could blink an eye everyone was off in a flash and us old folks (Jeanette, Jerry, Dick and myself) were left in the dust (or, I guess in this case it would be, snow flurries).

Being one of the geezers, sure takes the pressure off having to keep up with the youngsters all day. ;) We had another stellar day at Paradise lapping up first tracks on all our slopes for the entire day, it just doesn't get much better than that....

2/13/05 8:13pm

powscraper

Yeah you gotta watch those skiers, man. Setting off avies, stealing your first tracks...

2/13/05 8:00pm

ultragrrl

We were also up at Baker yesterday. Left the parking lot at a leisurely 10am. On our way to our objective, Herman Saddle, we saw a few largish skier triggered releases occur on table, which was interesting we hadn't observed those slopes actually run. Looked like only the new snow, but it ran to nearly the valley floor. Slow shoed it on out to herman saddle. Dug a pit on the chain lakes side of the saddle...shovel compression test yielded that the top 8" moved on 10-elbow,...

2/13/05 7:39pm

bcpinhead

February 12, 2005, Mazama Ridge

Hey Ron,
It was great to finally meet you.
I met all of these folks that I have been wanting to ski with all year. I didn't really plan on only getting out a handfull of times. I was thinking more around the lines of 50 or 60 days.
Oh well, at least I got to put faces to all of the great posts on TAY.
Special thanks to Ross and Eric for the carpool!!!!!
We had some pretty good conditions over on Mazama ridge. Even though most of the fore mentioned gaggle ended up there, we had so...

2/13/05 7:34pm

Scotsman

Hey JibberD, Nice meeting you on Saturday. Sounds like you had an interesting trip after we left you. Thanks for posting the photo. Ended up going back up on Sunday .After promising the wife some family time , I coudn't stop pacing aroung the house muttering about powder and she finally relented and said go, so I left the house at about 10:30 and had a nice aftenoon skiing a nice north facing slope with sweet powder with some guys who where kind enough to let me drop in with them.

If the...

2/13/05 4:39pm

Robie

There ya go geezerizing us again!
Wasn't bad Looked like everybody was having fun.
More snow please.Snowing hard as we left and I guess they got6" last night.oght to be stellar for those that can get up there onMonday -tues

2/13/05 4:25pm

Wow I loved that day!!! 8) Great skiing you guy's! Here's this weeks film: Pillow Talk
Nice reporting Ron!

2/13/05 9:45am

skinnyskier

Very nice day in BakerWorld today. We flew in fast and low in Eli's new car. Go, Eli! For a second there I had flashbacks to Utah with all the fluff around. Glad we could ski a run with Tim/Mark/Silas and crew.

PS Eric, Eli has a nice shot of you on his website.

2/13/05 9:37am

Michael

Great report Ron. Sounds like you guys found a great stash away from our crowded slope over at Mazama ridge :-) !

It was great to meet you (again :-)) and finally be able to put faces on all of you!

2/13/05 9:30am

Jeff Huber

February 12, 2005, Silver Basin + LOST: poles

Very nice report Ron. :)

2/13/05 8:04am

silaswild

Heard from some bashful tay lurkers this evening that Silver Basin was again superb today, kinda nice to have it quiet (sans lifts and extra vehicles.) Not bad conditions this month for such a minimal year, just have to give a little more thought about where to go. Baker, Paradise, Silver, it's all good!

2/13/05 7:58am

cem_terzi

I planed to ski crater but we are climbing two person together. The last thing you want to the at the climb is conflict.

Today I was in Bachelor 1 ft fresh powder, the official report is 9 inches.We got some more fresh snow afternoon too. It is great it can not get better than this The bad thing was a cloudy day. It is powder powder powder and can not get better than ..........

2/13/05 7:53am

silaswild

February 12, 2005, Mazama Ridge

Team Tim allowed a "maggot" to join them today, and it was great. Explored out along Ptarmigan Ridge north slopes, was reminded why Baker is worth the long drive from Seattle for winter skiing as well as summer. Glad I drove up the night before, tho. Worked the farm 7:30AM-5:30PM, no lunch break, Tim is a tough taskmaster. They did not get enough action today, so will return for leftovers tomorrow. Skied a run with Team Josh, Eli's photos pretty much tell it all.

2/13/05 7:28am

Sam Avaiusini

Interesting...our posse had a blast all day in the back bowl. We skied 6-7 runs for a total of almost 5,000vf and skied almost every aspect back there. The south facing lines were like 2" of new on a smooth groomer. The east facing lines were a bit crusty for the first 2 turns and then it was all good. Ahh, but the north facing slopes were the deepest. We finished our day there. The sun cooperated for most of the day so vis. was not an issue. Got to say, though, the run back out to t...

2/13/05 7:24am

Eli3

pictures from Josh, Eric and I's trek:

http://spcmanspiff.users.poppinfresh.net/1/index.htm

2/13/05 5:16am

markharf

February 12, 2005, Mazama Ridge

Now I know why Mark arrives at noon.Zap

Hey!!! That was our uptrack you were using, and our avalanche poodle-simulcrums; we must've just missed you, leaving the parking lot around 9:15 with a motley crew which included several skiers of your acquaintance (Pete and Ross), chasing but not catching at least one more (Tim Place). Nice turns out there today.

After breaking trail and testing slopes for you and Jill, we investigated various ot...

2/12/05 8:11pm

sean

Good to hear its snowing at Rainier again. i spent Tuesday through Friday camped up there on Mazama Ridge. It was my first time exploring mazama Ridge and I was impressed. We mainly snowboarded on the West
side of the ridge were the snow seem to stay good despite the weeks heavy sun. On our last night we also had an encounter with a fox. he tried to get at our food in our camp when we were sittiing out at night. The rest of the night he circled our camp and would try to sneak
into camp any...

2/12/05 4:55am

powscraper

That's a tough decision. I would probably trick myself into carrying on with the skis anyway, by telling myself that I would save more time on the descent.

2/12/05 4:38am

cem_terzi

I was planing to ski in the crater but we did not want to be late so we droped our havy waights there.

2/12/05 2:58am

gusk

Nice video, looks like alot of fun.
Right on the money on what kind of year it has been.
Gonna be a hard summer for TAY'ers though, wearing down the pavement to Paradise and Baker.

Too bad St Helen's is out of the picture, could use another volcano to mix it up a bit.

2/12/05 1:13am

nomad

Wow am I jealous. The best turns I've had all year were still back around new years with you guys. Go figure! Good to see the "crappy" conditions aren't holding you back. Nice vid Tim.

2/11/05 11:37pm

skykilo

Excellent, way to get out there.

Did you wish you had your skis up there in the crater?

2/11/05 8:41pm

Paul Belitz

Just a heads-up: I added some footage and changed some stuff on my viddy. Just in case you want to torture yourself by watching it again. :)

Same URL.

2/11/05 3:26am

Matt C

Sweet Vid Tim!

You boys are stylin. And I agree...there has been some sweet powder days this year. Speaking of which...I hope to catch you down there this weekend as my regular partner has abondoned me for a few days in Utah.

2/10/05 10:22pm

markharf

You're looking good on those Jaks, Tim. Not as good as Jeff, of course, but good.

Don't exactly know how we missed you Wednesday: maybe you'd already headed home by the time we arrived (10:00). We did a shortened version of our Saturday tour and had a blast in almost faultless conditions. I did persuade sb to drop another 500 feet into the drainage, and the snow got better and better (though shallower powder and scant base).

Thought I heard vague mum...

2/10/05 9:27pm

Paul Belitz

We drove to the TH with 4WD, we skinned the woods but couldn't ski them, once out of the woods coverage was good.

I like your vid, Phil! :)

What program do you edit them with?

2/10/05 9:25pm

skykilo

For a terrible snow year, there sure have been a bunch of epic days this year. Wednesday was another one.

That's right on the money, Tim. The base may be a pitiful shadow if its normal depth, but I've skied more fast, dry powder than usual. At least we can get quality, if we can't get quantity.

2/10/05 9:06pm

curmudgeon

What kind of skis are you using? ... What are those things?

Well, the guy that can ski? That's Jeff, and he is on Pocket Rockets. That other guy is on Pocket Rocket Lites (AKA Jak BCs) with the binding in "guide mount". That is, mounted 1" behind factory recommendations. That puts them 2 and 1/2 inches behind BF/RLC mounting. They are totally spastic for anything but heavy snow (AKA Baker Elephant Sn...

2/10/05 8:23pm

gregL

Superior viddy, Tim!

2/10/05 8:13pm

ema

more beta on hidden lake peaks, pretty please!! how far is the road drivable, how were the woods, can one skin thru the forest, how was the coverage on the open slopes ? thanx!

I made a video, but it also includes our Saturday trip to Alpental, and our Sunday trip to Hidden Lake Peak.

2/10/05 8:05pm

ema

tim, excellent entertainment!!!

2/10/05 7:57pm

powscraper

Justin's rock traverse

The scary thing is you can't really see the actual nasty bit. Apparently it's just a nice little ski run with more snow...

2/10/05 7:27pm

gregL

You guys make it look so good . . . sorry I missed it. Home trying to keep the last vestiges of the flu from turning to pneumonia.

Justin's rock traverse looks sketchier than Sky's huck on Blum, IMO

2/10/05 4:47pm

kam

Ok, but here is one that sucks:

no way! nice work!

2/10/05 8:46am

philfort

Ok, but here is one that sucks:

2/10/05 8:41am

JibberD

Nice, high quality video. Good humor too.

What kind of skis are you using? They're different from anything I've skied before. Do they have little jet packs that provide thrust at the end of the turn? Also perhaps a bulbous bow to keep the tips floating? What are those things?

2/10/05 8:12am

kam

Paul: your video does NOT suck!! ;D

2/10/05 5:49am

Paul Belitz

February 8, 2005, MRNP Muir Snowfield

I made a video, but it also includes our Saturday trip to Alpental, and our Sunday trip to Hidden Lake Peak.

http://www.students.washington.edu/pbelitz/2005/weekend_fun_small.wmv

~15Mb.

2/10/05 4:20am

Good work Gus! 8)

2/10/05 2:16am

kam

February 8, 2005, MRNP Muir Snowfield

Gus: i like it!!! the snow looked fantastic, and the weather too. thanks for sharing.

-kam

2/9/05 8:56pm

alpinedave

February 8, 2005, MRNP Muir Snowfield

That is a very cool video. Looks like a blast!

2/9/05 8:14pm

cem_terzi

February 4, 2005, Broken Top

Thank Jeff

I will try it thanks. I did Broken Top yesterday. 10-12 inc fresh snow from Saturday Sunday Bachelor , Broken Top, Sister area . I am heading MT Hood for Summit. Snow here is very good now. But south faces, because of sun effect lost powder condition get heavyer. Rest fresh and powder.

Cem

2/9/05 8:42am

allyson

yo, sweet shots. wish i was there instead of dreaming of being there...

2/9/05 8:40am

mej

I would much prefer a Dusk Patrol, I can't regularly miss classes. Leave Seattle at 2ish would work great. Anyone?

I would be interested for sure, pbelitz. Just say when.

2/9/05 8:36am

sheispiste

That fire in the sky is quite nice. Great shot! I see sunrise from my bike at dawn, and today looked good with the freshies on the peaks. I've been itching for some pow on the skis. Thanks for showing us what you're tasting.

2/9/05 7:23am

powscraper

Fire in the sky-

2/9/05 6:56am

powscraper