sibhusky

I'm really trying to figure out if TP4 is on his way out here, NOW, in June, when the mountain is not open for skiing and Glacier Park doesn't have the Sun road open yet? Water is way too cold to swim in, snow not really gone from some of the higher hiking trails so there's mud and June is our rainiest month. Seems like bad planning! I guess there's always fishing....

All I know is if I read up on this CRPS thing, I'll freak out and may lose the will to live, so I'm supposed to just keep my mind on the goal.

Let's see, did you do Whitey's and Good Med? Windowpane and Stumptown? Elkweed? Schmidt's Chute? Evan's Heaven? Granted, a number dump you onto the damn cat track of Russ's Strret, but still should have been lots of powder. They're coming here NOW? Got no snow! Actually, I've been diagnosed with some nerve damage to my hand. Not good.

http://flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article...in_no_more/276/ http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/200...news/news02.txt A new name for my home mountain. Can't say it's an improvement. I'd have preferred the Hellroaring name. And the logo is strange for a ski area:

Sounds like they need to check their skis' structure and waxing....

I am testing the universal hydro from Dr. D. this week and so far have had tons of conditions to work with: Frozen rock hard razor sharp grooming corduroy, slush, dry powder, nice frozen granular/corn, some freshies in the trees, and of course, plenty of late afternoon hero snow. Will report at the end of the week on the results with all of these conditions.

I'd say come here, but we are closing April 8. Everything is still open, but at this time of year conditions can change rapidly. Also, our famous tree skiing is pretty much a non-starter unless it heats up or we get dumped on (I prefer option B.) But there is "chance of snow" listed for here every day next week starting tomorrow afternoon. We had just a few bare patches showing on Friday and it has been getting slushy in the PM. It did rain today, tho, so not sure what that did. The inch of fresh snow on the groomers yesterday was nice until around noon, when it began to merge with the softening snow underneath and felt a bit gummy. By 3 PM I was limiting my runs to the back side (north) and the last few runs down the front were definitely a LOT of effort with piles of slush. 4/1 they close Hellroaring Basin because of the bruins. At the Summit they are reporting an 81 inch base and 20 inches down in the village, with 45 inches mid-mountain. We don't have the rock issue that many western resorts have, so 45 inches is sufficient to cover the grass. Driving distance from Jackson is 500 miles, supposedly 8 1/2 hours. You'd pass Big Sky, Bridger, Moonlight, on the way, but we've had WAY more snow this season, so I don't know how they're doing at this point. Siblet didn't have a single good day there due to crowds and conditions until just this month. You'd also pass Montana Snowbowl, Turner, Blacktail, and some other areas, but if you keep going past Bozeman, you might as well come all the way up here.

Gee, CB USED to have great passholders' parties, including shrimp, pate, petit fours, and open bar. Times sure did change.

So this universal is a fluro wax? If you had to guess, how much vertical are you getting between waxings? One person's "day" is not necessarily another's. My boss at work has been out 5 "days", but his accumulated vertical is ONE of my days.

Believe me, by day's end, I can FEEL the structure with my fingers, there's no wax in it. And this is in spite of the fact that I just iron the wax on, I don't scrape. I was running my fingers over the base of the ski this afternoon in the locker room and I could feel where there was this drag on the base. Right under the foot close to the edges especially. The structure is definitely well scraped out by the ice crystals of the first run. I'll try your all temp wax and maybe ask for some of that $3 stuff as well. Order coming shortly. Is this the right link to the wax you mean?

I need help with waxing for the Spring conditions we are having. The temperature drops to below freezing at night (tonight it will be 19 degrees). The "corduroy" in the AM is the rock hard stuff that makes your fillings vibrate and takes off all my wax in the first 50 feet. No problem really until the snow starts to soften. By 2:30 or so, the snow is DRAAAGGGGINNNG against me the whole way down the hill. Skiing the trail edges produces the old start/stop stuff that really is irritating. Some skiers carry paraffin with them and stop every two runs to crayon it on, but that's a pain in the neck. Last year I attempted to put on layers to deal with all the conditions, playing with three layers applied individually or blended altogether -- Dr. D's red hydro, some universal molybdenum stuff, and Dr. D's yellow hydro (not currently showing on the site for some reason). Some days it would seem like it was working, but it may have just been the right temps all day. I was waxing every night and had only limited success. I even got to the point of bring out two pairs of skis so I'd have fresh wax when things started getting sticky, but it'd be off after one shady trail. I've even had my bases freshly stone ground and restructured, which seemed to help a bit, but not totally. I'm waxing every night with just the Dr. D yellow right now, but by the end of the day the bases have the gray haze of no wax. I need something that'll last through the scratchy AM conditions so it can function in the sticky PM conditions. We're talking 20 degree mornings followed by 40 or 50 degree afternoons. Anyone have any answers?

I'm sure this guy would have something to say about that.

Actually, my MOTHER doesn't stay here.

Can you give the abridged version of what exactly he was accused of, ski? (Not as abridged as above, tho.)

If only Snowbird or Canyons and you are less than an expert, then the Canyons. Has some great cruising.

Twarn't me. Ski will tell you I am not a MILF.

http://www.eurosport.com/alpineskiing/mcpl...6639.shtml#Full And another: http://www.eurosport.com/alpineskiing/mcpl..._vid36686.shtml Click on Full screen link if it doesn't start playing.

Hmm, but you didn't post any vertical for 3/13...... Are you trying to sneak some huge elephant of a day by me while I'm in the dark?

The trouble is, at the J4 and J5 level, they don't compete with "USSA points". The Eastern skiers are in one lot, the Central in another, West in a third and I think there's still a "North East" in a fourth. So, the top skiers of each bunch go to Derbies. The problem is, in a given bunch, they could all be terrific skiers or dull skiers. So, the bunch to bunch comparison only happens at Derbies. And yeah, it's certainly not fair that everything hinges on two days. I remember Siblet was running a fever or something the time she went to Seven Springs for derbies. Actually, when you think of it, it's not even necessarily the "best" skiers of each bunch who go to derbies. I think we'd all agree that consistency over a whole season determines "best", but the system they use only looks at the best placements for individual race days and uses the top 3 or 4 days to tell "best". A kid could theorectically go to derbies who finished dead last or didn't finish at all for every race except the 3 or 4 he needed and he could go to derbies. Once these kids move up to USSA point skiing at the J2 (or here J3) level, they are compared NATIONALLY every time they race due to the complexities (explained in several other posts on this board) of the USSA point system.

If you run into "Andre", an instructor at Yellowstone, tell him that a former student of his at Big Mountain said "hi". (He used me as the "example" to the others in my group, who didn't ski as well as I did for "Ladies' Day".)

Siblet didn't get poles until her third season.... They interfered with her rhythm and carving. We spent an entire season watching people use poles from the chair and we would say if they were using them correctly or not.

I have "vermillion" Bolle OTG's and you know I spend 70% of the time skiing fog so they must not be too bad.

Great pictures, looks like you had great conditions most of the time.

And it'll cost you $15 for lunch. Also, bring P-Tex.

Chapter Two: http://www.bigmtn.com/mod/media/0607chap2.php