sibhusky

Sort of surprised that he hasn't filed a trip report yet. Does Doug always handle that job for him?

Must have had a trip here. There's some guy on Epic looking to buy some.

Bright and breezy today.

I think the average non-holiday day is 2000. I know I've got that stat somewhere.. http://wmr-guide.com/tips.html#SkierVisits However, Presidents Week here is pretty bad as we are very popular with Canadians and they have a holiday week at the same time. Whereas you might expect crowds at Christmas, the impact to us of that February week is probably more than at other areas. In case you're wondering, no, I don't stand around waiting for a person to get out of the picture.. But I do mostly ski midweek: Sun, Mon, Tues OR Wed, Thurs, Fri.

Today. Finally starting to remember how to do this. Not ready to change to other skis yet, but my basics are feeling good.

Some of those areas, I've skied the apron below the cliffs. Needless to say, old Sib doesn't jump off cliffs. See the page on my site called Whitey's in my North Bowl section, also Evan's Heaven, and the Apron in Hellroaring Basin. I have done none of the double blacks, not do I have plans to. In addition, I have never done Back Nine, Fault 3, Connie's Coulee, Teepee (no one calls it that, it's Area 51), Marmot. Some other single blacks I might not get to every year, but have done them. I hope to get in Connie's Coulee this year. David Steele is a pro for ON3P. Zak is a friend on Facebook, a sometime co-worker with the Siblet, and one of her best buds. He is also one of the owners of Montana Ski Company, and his picture is on the sides of buildings in Seattle and buses in Minneapolis. Have heard of the third guy, but don't know a thing about him.

Old legs could only handle three runs today. Need some recuperation time.

We had The Right Fluff today. Was on my skinny skis and it was not an issue. Wish I had a few more days to get better before this showed up, though.

Good temps. We were up to that today.

I was actually overdressed today. Came home and had to dry my mittens and balaclava, and my unmentionables. Only light winds and the sun was out, so -4 was quite warm.

Just as a quick prediction, given that Whitefish Lake is already covered shore to shore with ice, the fog will be a lot less this season, yay! Last season was pretty bad.

Conditions are excellent, like mid January. Place is 100% open. Didn't ski a lot, will build slowly. But powder, no hard pack, no dirt, no grass, excellent dry quality conditions. Hell, it's been mostly zero and below, the best conditions for snow quality. Warming up a bit later in the week.

Skied today, but too lazy to post my own pic. Besides, tele is cool.

They just opened the lifts to the summit. Delayed due to -50 F wind chills.

Definitely. Some, like Haskill Slide, NBC, and Picture Chutes, that I will never ski.

Franky, Doug, I don't recognize that as Elkweed. Elkweed had trees on it last I looked. Could maybe be Fault 3, which leads into Elkweed, but I've never entered from there. It LOOKS LIKE the top of Hogan's East alongside Elkweed. When I saw that label I had this "It's been a long summer" WTF feeling.. Will keep watching that, but.. when things are deep you can ski steeper stuff. I've skied all the places I've taken pictures of on my site.

Crazy, whole posting was lost? Facebook video https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152097556849309&id=30030734308&__user=691667487 YouTube video ,

They're expecting 6000 people. I have a hard enough first day without dodging that many other people who are still figuring out how things work.

At the house... not on the mountain.

Clearly not talking about ski tuning. It's like $25 here.. Heck, right on the mountain, it's $29. Cheaper in town.

I won't do binding work but I do most everything else. There are times when I take them in for a grind, but not often. Just did a slight structure refresh with OMG some sandpaper. We'll see how successful that was..

The thing is, Doug, I don't worry about the temp that much other than saying if it's colder I need more clothes on. I'm not tracking it. They'd likely close the main lift here if it got really cold anyway, because of wind or mechanical issues, at which point I'd be cussing that I wasn't on the back or wherever.