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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

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

Sorry dude my work life has been a shit show of recent so this is the first i read your posts. First and foremost heal up. Take care of yourself and be patient. Take all the horseshit your feeling now and funnel that into rocking the shit out of next year. All they can do with a minscus is remove parts of it which doesn't always help so give the injury time and see what's up but regardless gotta focus that energy into a positive and come back next year strong. I'm not a early riser lets go work out type but PT I think it's generally the difference between something being fixed and actually fixed. I think once I get the boot worked out I'll ski better then before because I'm actually kinda trying lol but I got full ROM and strength because I went to PT three fucking times a week and still do the ROM exercises. Even if you can only go one time, go and figure out what exercises they are doing and then do them at home. Second, I blew my shit up last year on fucking burma road at blue mtn. Now in my defense it was off the side of the trail but of all the places I've gone, of all the dumb shit I've done, my first real injury and it was on burma fucking road lol. Why because I was being stupid and didn't look before I leaped. Nobody is perfect in this life, every skier/boarder takes chances and if you do it long enough your probably going to get hurt. That shit is real shit but it's the price we pay to live a little, to get rowdy, to do the impossible of riding down a huge mtn at 50mph on tiny little metal edges. This one though, for most, is too much risk. I'm not telling you what to do that is up to each individual I'm just saying that's alot of risk. I've gone out gates, I've ducked ropes most people if they are honest and get after it have done the exact same thing but we all gotta try to moderate the risk. Every single person on this site has taken too much risk in the mtns and gotten away with it but for next time, for all the people on this site, myself included, it's good to be reminded about leaving the resort. All that shit though don't mean fuck all, who, where, when, why is all fucking irrelevant all that matters now is you do everything you reasonably can and come back next year even better, even more focused.

we're headed out to alta/snowbird this weekend.....just in time for a potentially yuge storm. oh yeah!

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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.

Thanks for asking sir. Feel awesome. Like normal mainly this past week. I'll know more about skiing, exercise etc this Friday. Feel great but don't want to rush it either.

Another nice spring day shredding the powdirt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

i bet you think that post was about you.

I also attract the ladies Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

watched black and white through most of my childhood.

You're properly old when you've purchased a bunch of your music three times: LP, cassette, and CD.

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."

Was nice though when the number had a 0 in it and your finger got the free ride back around.

nothing

But he HAS skiied under the Cabriolet . . .

I’m going to be going hard both days for sure. Whole fam is out of town, so it’s on. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

yer gonna get dumped on. Perder, perder, perder. Maybe the biggest snow for them this year. Are you staying at alta/snowbird? Lately i have heard the canyon road has become a shit show in the snow. Apparently they arent policing the 4x4 or chains only, and dumb asses in their honda accords are getting stuck, sliding off the road, and then the road closes to clean up the circus act. Is NMSKI going with you? it seems like he drags the snow around with him where ever he goes.

I'll try to make whatever day it is

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Oh I'm aware. Even mashed potatoes are repelled.

Beautiful pics!

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

...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches, with localized amounts up to 15 inches, are possible. * WHERE...Portions of east central and eastern New York. * WHEN...From late Thursday night through late Friday night. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The precipitation will start as rain Thursday evening, then change to snow late Thursday night, continuing on Friday. The snow could mix with rain on Friday, especially at lower elevations. Snow accumulations by late Friday could be quite variable, with potential for around 6 inches of slushy snow at lower elevations, but over a foot possible at elevations above 2000 feet. Plan on difficult travel conditions, including during the morning commute on Friday.

Truckee is a cool place, have fun out there.

You must have had the fastest fingers in the East.

I love log rolling. Those lumberjack competitions used to be the shit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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!!

They wanna ski that Perder!!!

Hah you forgot 8 track...

Fuck yeah you do Pheromones for days!!!

What do you mean start?

Looks great, Barb!

Nice pictures Barb!!! Where do you meet these unadventurous ladies?? I thought the chicks you hangout with are badass like the bikini girl with the horse head mask lol

As long as Toast isn't going with you guys, you should have tons of Perder.

see my stealth edit before you even posted.

Plate is large and bought way too many potatoes and corn, so they were extra large helpings. Nice having a grill out back to fire up the steaks. Luckily there's plenty TP in the house!

I'll be there on Sunday. The 8 Seconds at the top and the 14 seconds at the bottom add up when these guys cruise through the VIP gates so I rarely get more than one run at a time with the whole crew haha.

It’s nice to be a VIP at Blue.

#Truth!!! At least Indiggios poops for the next day or two should be interesting...reminds me of Cornholio

Tie between NMDW and Switchback. Sidewinder is also up there. Tend to agree. When trees are in play, Blue Baumer- Lazy - Falls is up there too.

Yeah every run I am maneuvering my way around skiers and riders and I don't usually almost hit them. My only collision is perhaps the last ten years was in the six pack liftline. I was skiing into the liftline and some kid started skating towards means clipped me and the kid went down. I have no idea why he was skating out of the liftline.

one fence, three poles, aranged in a triangle with a sign "do not stop beyond this point" easy.

Was her location "in front of you"? If so, then you would have been 100% at fault if you'd hit her. It's Blue. There are under-skilled goobers on every trail most of the time. If you don't like it, move someplace with off-piste and/or backcountry skiing.

Thanks, so am I haha. Unfortunately my season season will be just under 2 months. First time back was Feb 1st, since then ive riden 6 times, bought a new board and got a season pass. next seasons looking reeeeal good.

Because it’s today.

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.

Glad you are safe. We shouldn’t shame him, even though it was dumb. I think it’s good to encourage people to share their experiences so we can learn from them. TP4 thanks for sharing this story, maybe you prevented someone from getting themselves into danger by doing something similar in the future. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk