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Cross country skied today. Forecast didn’t call for snow but it’s coming down hard here! Wanted some solitude so I chose to go out solo on a trail instead of with the other ladies. All along the trail were geysers. Really something to see with the snow and steam. They all looked stunning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You should center mount your rtm's

I didn’t in summer, but winter here is magic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pretty much. It (being predictable) drives my wife nuts. She can tell when I'm reading PASR because of how I laugh when I'm reading it. I don't even that I'm doing it. Then she'll say some shit to make fun of me like "yo RidgeRacer, when you're done writing your little trip report change the cat litter."

elk forecasted to got 10 to 14 inches from this storm. If that happens and it cools down like they are saying, they will reach 100 days no problem, which I think is march 23. Praying for a dump. The deepest I've skied all winter was 6 inches at Shawnee. Nothing beats elk on a powder day, although this snow is supposed to be heavier...at any rate, they will be back to being 100% open which is great this late in the season.

PASR Day at Belle tomorrow. Getting after it ⛷!

Woah, and I didn't believe you at first. Sickbird!!!

Thanks. It's a easy ride to Belle. NYS does a pretty good job on 28. Getting stuck behind the plows for 30 miles and toast farting is my biggest concern. Tonight A chance of rain before 10pm, then rain and snow likely between 10pm and 1am, then snow after 1am. Patchy fog after 10pm. Low around 31. Northeast wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible. Friday Snow. Patchy fog before 4pm. High near 31. Windy, with a northwest wind 18 to 23 mph increasing to 24 to 29 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible. Hopefully the new Catskill Thunder gondubie stays open.

Need to be there and see them to appreciate them. Nature is fucking wild. I couldn’t imagine how amazing it would be to xc ski through a national park like that. Jelly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you hadn't spent so much time waiting for GSS you might not have bored of skiing

It's because I enjoy being a parent and watching and helping them improve. I actually get way more exercise skiing with them as it takes a lot more work to go slow than to rip down a run. I will go a bit ahead of them in trees or bumps to try to show them a route to follow If I want to go fast, I will often let them get a fair bit ahead of me and then catch up.

I enjoy skiing slower with my kids (actually with the slower of them, as I tend to follow whoever lags so as to provide any needed help without having to hike uphill) every bit as much as I enjoy skiing faster by myself.

roger that! so do I, AFTER I get up there I was there with jfskidan in 2016...he did a great job getting us around the mtn. last time we found the snow on the supreme lift to be not that great, so I'm interested to check out that area a bit more. we had loads of fun in the wildcat area. fyi....the RTM's are staying home this time around. i'll be taking my blizzard brahma sp's.

Fuck you i wont chew what you tell me

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Holy shit; I had to reschedule a meeting in Truckee from Friday to Monday because of snow. I thought it was a little weird for them to cancel on account of snow. Just looked at the forecast, and there is up to FIVE FEET of snow predicted to fall in 48 hours in the High Sierra. I'm bringing my boots and calling Sunday a good day to be Sally.

Bahahahah

Lol, you used that line just recently. That joke is like 99% of pop lyrics: repetitive! Also, don't really understand the RTM thing either.

A year after the “big burn” I was fishing the firehole in August. Afternoon storm rolled in and temps plummeted. Being August I was only wearing a t-shirt so I would spend a few minutes fishing, then go near geysers to warm up before getting back to fishing. They were less restrictive back in the 80s [emoji41]

Yeah they are closing on the 18th (guessing)

Nice I take back what I said yesterday...you take risks lol

Didn’t bother. Was only 6 runs and I spent some time with my kids when I got home. Maybe later. Still gotta finish that Steamboat report

They're Jerry skis!!!

I always do a handful of XC days and I do log them. I have my own at home. These are rentals. I brought my snowshoes but wasn’t going through the hassle of bringing the skis. $18 for a half day rental....cheap! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's because we were doing the bumps.

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Regular yard sale. Taught me to tighten my helmet strap as a helmet should not be ten feet away from you after a fall. I was done for the day after that one. Felt like Charlie Brown after a line drive.

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That's what I do with salty and Mrs. Snowbunski...let them go ahead and catch up and fly by them. That's good that you like being a parent. Even though I never will have kids, I appreciate the fact that some like having kids.

Possibly? It is usually late in the day though. I wish they would do a morning coffee, bagel, donut party at the end of the season for us instead of afternoon lunch.

Sunday.

Pretty sure I'm in on a northern expedition tomorrow.

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Forecasts are conflicting for Blue ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Heavy wet snow possible. Total wet snow accumulations of 4 to 6 inches are possible. * WHERE...Carbon and Monroe counties. Higher elevations have a better potential for higher totals. * WHEN...Snow will begin by dawn Friday and continue through the day. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Plan on difficult travel conditions, including during the evening commute on Friday. Tree branches could fall. Significant reductions in visibility are possible. Avoid travel is possible. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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You are set at goldminers. I’m a puruvian fan myself. Make sure you go to the bar at the puruvian - top 3 ski bar in North America. Truth. Don’t know if you have been there or not but no where gets tracked out faster then Alta / Snowbird so be prepared. Far right (skiers perspective) at Catherine’s will hold on longest. If they open east castle then the effort will be worth it. Devils castle and lower woods will hold on for a while as well. After things get tracked out drop any line between high rustler to gunsight will be awesome. Be careful not to get cliffed out in eagles nest area. Jelly, enjoy. PS. If you got nothing bigger then RTMs then rent

i bet you think that post was about you.

Goldminer is good. If the canyon rd closes.....it could be pretty epic for you. So since its gonna snow, let me tell you where to go...... anywhere.

An 8 track player and a reverb unit in a 68 Camaro, with two (stereo) speakers cut into the "parcel" shelf at the back window..... now that's an old phart!!

Hah you forgot 8 track...

They sense your massive rod.

Fuck yeah you do Pheromones for days!!!

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Arrived in Yellowstone late yesterday afternoon. Staying at Mammoth Hotel near the north entrance. Later today getting a snow coach to Old Faithful hotel. Girls on this trip seem a little less adventurous then I am used to. The majority opted to go see the Mammoth Terraces, which have boardwalks around some thermal features. There is a short snowshoe from that location. One girl and myself chose a longer snowshoe. We were the only ones on the trail and it was a beautiful morning. Saw lots of elk and have seen lots of buffalo from a safe distance. People are saying there have been a lot of wolf sightings this week so that would be cool. Sitting in the lodge now since I had to check out of my room before the snowshoe. Wish I could take a nice hot shower because I sweated my ass off on the uphill snowshoe and now I am really cold! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Big Sky - Day 3 The morning started out pretty much the same as the others, get up, eat, write TR, etc., go ski. Today was the day after the storm bluebird day, unfortunately it was a bit windy, more on that later. Since it was bluebird, we could get up to Lone Peak with good visibility, unlike all the previous days, so that was the goal. Took the Otter up and then down to the base to see a pretty large crowd had already formed at the Swift. Looks like everyone has the same idea as to where to go. Headed up the Swift and down to the Powder-Seeker. Up the PS and down to the Tram to a small corral of people, not too bad. Took a bunch of pics and watched a skier come down the Big Couloir, followed shortly after by a boarder. Midway down the couloir the boarder fell and tumbled a couple of times. To the crowd's amazement, he miraculously popped back upright and continued the run down to the line. He was wearing brown pants for good reason, we thought! Up the Tram to the top where the winds were howling. From the top, the decision was made to head down the South Face, as they had been here before and found a nice powder field there after a storm. Well, that decision quickly came back to haunt us, as the storm's winds were out of the West and had blown Liberty bowl almost completely bare of powder. Oh to be a local! We picked our way down Liberty and down to Dakota and lapped the trees a couple of times. Riding up Dakota I was drawn to Kircher's Cliffs, looker's left. There were some avy explosion marks in the snow and a few tracks. I wanted to check it out but the others wanted to do another tree run. My curiosity got the better of me and I told them I was headed to the cliffs, but none followed. Headed down past the blue Badlands and the an avy gate and made my way out a traverse to the base of the cliffs and a wide-open Hanging Valley perder field all to myself. Skies down that and found the way back to Dakota and the others. Of course, they now wanted to check it out! Having done it once already, this time I pushed even further South, going around a cliff and further South some more to the avy pockmark to score some more Fresh tracks. We grew tired of South Face and made our way back around to have some lunch. Since the snow was better on the North side, we headed over to Andesite and lapped the bumps on Mad Wolf a few times. Departed Andesite by way of Spotted Elk which still had some freshies and made our way back over to Challenger as its close to the house. We lapped Challenger liftline bumps and the trees around there until we had had enough and made our way back to the house for some homemade guac and beers. One of the local bars supposedly had poker and a ping-ping table, so we made our way there after dinner only to be skunked on both fronts. Poker night was Thursday and the ping-pong table was no more. Yellowstone Club

Big Sky - Day 2 Snow began falling around 7am and was coming down at a pretty good clip and avy guns again going off on the mountain. The plan for the day was to head over to the South Face right off to take advantage of the falling snow. We headed down to Mountain Village and checked the big board to make sure both Shenandoah and Dakota lifts were good and both were green, sweet! Rode up the Sweet quad to make our way to the backside. At the top of the lift we catch a sign that both the other lifts are closed. WTF? Is the big board right or these? We decided to take a chance that the lifters forgot to change them last night and went over to Paradise, not Blue's green version by any stretch! At the bottom of Paradise we found to our dismay that the big board was wrong and the lifties had it right. Let that be a lesson to all! Took Middle Road all the way back to the base and decided to hang out on Andesite for the morning. Took Ramcharger lift and proceeded down Crazy Raven which had some nice, partially filled bumps down to Everett's Anger. At that point, the group took a right, heading down to Big Horn, but me and another went left, deeper into the woods...mistake. The farther we went in, the steeper it got to get down to Big Horn. We did eventually find a route down which had pretty thin cover to which the nicks in the bases would attest. Up the Thunder-Wolf and down Mad Wolf which had some gnarly bumps all the way down the liftline. Next lap, some went back to the bumps, me and another decided to go tree searching, as we can ski bumps back st Blue but not many trees. We headed down to check out Shady Chute which was ok, but nothing spectacular. It was shot and we popped out too soon and went straight back down to Thunder-Wolf. Others wanted another bump repeat, so we tried Broken Arrow. It was a little like Shady, but more open with some huge bumps at the bottom. They had enough bumps so we all went down to the Bolivia woods area. Lots of fun and good snow were down there. Last run through we pushed right into Marlboro Country where they have a bunch of avalanche fencing and a tight, bumped corridor next to them, pretty cool! We broke for lunch and asked SP about South Face who confirmed it was open. It was still pumping snow and we had probably received a good 4-5" by now. We made our way down Spotted Elk under Ramcharger which was a lot of fun. We made it around to the South Face the same way as in the morning and took the long run past the Yellowstone Club which we heard some wild stories about from people in the lift. Must be nice to have gobs of money... Up the Shenandoah and down Sunlight and Mike Skinner to the Dakota. We marveled at Kircher's Cliffs off in the distance and wondered how one would extract themselves if the had got too close to find themselves cliffed-out. It's some pretty wicked terrain out here and you better know what you're doing! Evidence of a fresh slide was still up there. We ended up lapping the trees under the Dakota which were all freshly filled, so finding powder was as easy as going around the next tree. The weather was a bit fickle on this side, as at the bottom of the lift it was barely flirting, midway up it was dumping snow and at the top, it was sunny! It was after 2pm now, so we decided to depart and make our way back to the house. As we came around to the other side it was still snowing hard and there were still untracked runs to be found. At this point, my legs were noodles and I just wanted to get back. Some decided to make a few more runs, which for one member, wasn't the smartest of ideas. He went off a little roller, spun around and torqued his Achilles bad. No need to push it when you're tired! Beer, dinner (Shrimp Scampi), Johnny Walker and a movie, to which I didn't pay any attention because it was so boring. I didn't even get the title.

Right before sunrise on a clear morning in Taos, NM Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk