Glenn

Nice work sir. I think DBamf took me back there one day a couple years ago. I remember it being fun.

Is Alpine Meadows even step enough for 122"?

Strawberry Park Hot springs. I like to eat at the 50's style burger joint in town but I can't remember the exact name. Storm Peak, Sundown and Pony lifts are my go to zones. Sundown gets skied out first. Sundown -> Sunshine loops produce some really great steep trees that stay good longer on the way back to Sundown. Also their is some former Olympian bump skier who gives free lessons once a day. Depending on our skill level this could be really worth while or stupid. They go slow, but ski some easier diamonds. Have fun that hill is good.

My thoughts are Shawnee or Jack Frost. They are similar in that both have lots of mellow terrain and far less crowds than Camelback or Blue. Shawnee and Jack frost are however smaller both in vertical drop and total acreage. Sno would be another option with the whole upper mountain having great beginner terrain. It will be a bigger drive though.

You will never get good grooming with night skiing and melt freeze cycles nearly every day.

Yeah right Jeff, by your own admission hucking is not your thing.

Since when did JHMR count as "so many places"? Nice.

I have a hard time turning and stopping from the back seat too. I guess skiers and snowboarders aren't so different after all.

Bump 4 stoke

Make some friends, lessons get expensive quick.

Pillows up top look prime.

No idea. Work took priority this week and weekend. I went to the now defunct Bear Canyon ski resort and hiked for some very tracked heavy untracked which we opted out of for some very tracked groomer like snow. Not a bad day, but next time I'll just go all the way to Ellis.

Every year is different. In my experience this is not true. The first 2 of 3 years I was able to get some goods. This wasn't an every day event, I timed things right and had my eye on the pack the whole time. I'm pretty sure I stayed in bounds a number of days it was good and stable in the BC as well. On the other hand last year was so bad I only got on 1 BC slope steep enough to slide. It slid to the ground when I ski cut the pillow on the entrance roll into the pitch. This is more or less what I was hoping for. I was going to hike out if I couldn't get something to release. The stuff below was a beautiful low pitch pillow field and mountain lion tracks leading to a hut. Nearly all of my untracked runs were NOT in guidebooks though. They did not have a boot pack or skin track taking you there either.

No you aren't.

If that was blank, yeah, I would probably hike for it. If people started passing my slow ass I'd probably drop in early too just to get mine before they tracked it out. I'd be doing spray turns too, really milking whatever snow I got. You show a picture of a tracked bowl and say you feel bad for people who didn't hike for it and it doesn't make me wish I had. Still I'd probably rather just find something in the BC that I don't have to race people for. Something that isn't featureless and something I can ride a week or two after the storm and it's still a blank canvas.

Well it doesn't look as deep so I guess I would rather ride the aspen pic, but when considering the work, I would probably only ride the BM pic.

No one skis the base lifts at Bridger. No one checks the upper lifts at Bridger. I think they have a universal policy to keep it simple and to prevent people from going up into closures, or up into mandatory beacon terrain without going through the check points. Also the obvious is poaching the lifts. You can however skin up next to the boundary, ski in and catch an upper mountain lift. I know people do this regularly. Well, this of course is as stupid. While I talked shit on your stoke threads for using stoke photos, using them in your TR has to be worse. Thanks for the call out of bullshitness.

I like hiking, but thats a lot of vert (work) for featureless tracked powder.

Pictures seem to paint a different story.

ROFL

The downhill skiers has the right of way, not the skier going down the hill. This is true for stopped or traversing skiers, although they have additional responsibilities to make themselves seen and look uphill and yield when starting or merging. Uphill skiers move so slow, if you hit them, you would have hit a stopped skier in their position as well.

How could I forget. 50 degrees is steep and worthy. To be honest I think that might be too steep to be enjoyable considering prevailing conditions, especially if it is groomed.

Every hill has a different policy. Bridger doesn't allow any uphill travel outside of the established boot packs and traverses. Winter Park allowed hiking and skinning with lots of upper mountains lifts that were subject to poaching. So few people did it, that I guess it wasn't an issue. The National Forrest argument is incredibly weak and shows a real lack of understanding for how the agreements work. Banding together as a community and asking the ski area to provide the services and opportunities that you want is clearly what saved the day. The guy who got arrested seems to be in as much trouble for being uncooperative as anything else.

This kept me from saying sno was the steepest. Can you confirm that you've been there and it's claims are legitimate. I went to school with a guy who described a terrible run through the triple diamond tree run. Just sounded bad, nothing classy or fun about it at all.

You can see my stats if you want. I don't bullshit there. I think I hide them from the lists, because it's for me not everyone else. I don't think I can hide them from searches on my stats. It's hilarious you get so worked up about these things. It's even more hilarious that Nick's posts get deleted when they are aimed one way and not another.