JFskiDan

97 mph winds at the top.

Staying at the Crystal Inn. Decent place, good breakfast, and a light dinner. You could actually stay here without renting a car. They have an airport shuttle, and they do some shuttles for dinner. Without a car you can ride the bus, but im not a huge fan of being on someone elses schedule. A few more pics from today.

Just stopped snowing. Real nice stuff off of great western about 2/3rds down in the trees.

At least i didnt put it in the beer thread, or the Bear Creek sucks thread. Eating lunch at the milly lodge. Been playing off this lift for the morning. So much varied terrain here. Still some pockets of fresh stuff to be found. Im having some steeze fries and a burger. Washing it down with some of utahs finest water. More later.

I fucking love this place. Little snow overnight. Light snow falling throughout the day.

So, someone fifty years old, today, is supposed to be making $250k a year? You should call my boss, let him know there is a new pay scale. Regardless, saying its 2,3,or 4 X your age doesnt leave much to be said for where you live, cost of living, etc.

I know. and it just keeps getting worse. Overnight A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Southwest wind around 18 mph. Sunday A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. South wind around 14 mph. Sunday Night Snow likely, mainly after 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 16 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Monday Snow. High near 31. Breezy, with a southwest wind 22 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Monday Night Snow. Low around 23. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 18 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible. Tuesday Snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 30. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Tuesday Night Snow. Low around 23. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible. Wednesday Snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 31. Breezy.

Oh good. i was really concerned about that.

Seems like all the cosmic tumblers in the world may be coming together to hand out some freshies for our trip. From Wasatch Snow Forecast...... Sunday is a break day. Next storm pushes in late Sunday night into early Monday morning. Snow will fall in the mountains on Monday with snow levels between 6-7k feet. So the snow will of a dense variety. Still, we could get some fairly significant totals. 06z 12km NAM portrays up to 20″ of snow on Monday for the Upper Cottonwoods: Univ of Utah So both Monday and Tuesday could be good skiing. Tuesday is a another break between waves. The next push of moisture will move in Tuesday night into Wednesday. Confidence in this wave is still low as some model runs have been weaker with this wave and push the moisture farther north. Still, I think it’s likely we will see another wave of high mountain snowfall on Wednesday with chance for some decent accumulation.

Was. Just landed at PHL.

Way to get after it!!!! I think i am passing on saturday as well.

So nashville is pretty cool. Nice people, and its really clean. The wild horse saloon is a neat place to check out. It might be the biggest bar i have ever been in. Very chill. If you can handle country music just a little bit, check it out. Event came with the titans cheerleaders too.

Way to get after it, ok?

Way to get after it!!! Ok.

Yeah, thats not working real well. They blew some snow but i guess forgot to add the industrial strength glue to the water.

I had high hopes after 2 or 3 runs things would stay together a little better/longer than yesterday. They didnt.

First run down challenge was real nice. Nightmare/Dreamweaver was the "multi surface" trail of the day. some new manmade, and some old sugar all at the same time. From there we rode the sugar express 6 pac up to sugartown to ski some more sugar back down to the bottom of suga suga, went back up again but this time went right to go search out some more sugar. we found it. Sugar here, sugar there, sugar everywhere. Seriously, Challenge first run was good, nightmare/dreamweaver wasnt bad, Sidewinder was bad by the time we got to it, top of main street was nice, bottom was junk, Switchback wasnt bad of course until you hit lower main, lazy ok, but the approach to the falls was so deep, almost dangerous. Burma was crazy deep in sugar. Things just kept getting deeper as time went on. By 9 am things were pretty deep all the way around. light crew today, Toast, Mbike, Jlaw, GSSsucks, and myself. Of course im going back tomorrow.

So there is this buoy out in the middle of the ocean some 3,000 miles from Utah. It records wave heights. At some point someone put it together that when it "pops" or records a higher than normal wave height, it means snow in Utah 2 weeks (give a day or two) after the "pop". It seems as though its been pretty accurate. It is supposed to work for the Sierras as well, but it comes in a few days earlier. RidgeRacer and myself will be in Utah Feb 5th - 9th. It has popped for the 4/5th and the 8/9th. lets see how this pans out. "Still on track for the first week of feb, looks like starting the 2nd and continuing though the 4th/5th and another into 8th/9th!" https://www.facebook.com/powderbuoy/

It did not look anything like this. This was more like it - googles definition of "loose granular snow" This is also created by machine grooming frozen or icy snow. Frozen Granular (FG) - This is often a misunderstood surface condtion. Frozen granular is a hard surface of old snow formed by granules freezing together after a rain or warm temperatures.Frozen Granular will support a ski pole stuck into the surface. It was pretty bad when i got there just after opening, and it was really bad when i left. Piles of sugar with bumpy uneven grooming. Saw Mbike from the lift a couple times out of sequence, Skied 2 or 3 runs with Toast and discussed the epic conditions at hand. Switchback was run of the day, but by run of the day, i really mean "the least fucked up" Razors Couloir was closed for racing. 6 pac not running. I rode the lift with a woman who was here with the race team from roundtop, who said conditions were excellent compared to out there lately.

Hopefully Razors Couloir will be nice tomorrow morning.

Way to get after it!!!!!

Thats the new neighborhood theft deterrent device. So far the results are mixed.

Way to get after it!!!!!

I'm a fan of convenience. I will always pay for convenience. i believe that my time is always worth something. I live 20 minutes from PHL. I see no reason to look for airfare anywhere else. A flight out of Newark would have to be almost free for me to consider doing all the dumb shit i would have to do to get to Newark.