sibhusky

I was wondering that myself. But, I don't think you'd confuse him with being a "guy" like he's a teenager or something. As I recall the owner was maybe in his late 40's or so, blond hair, handsome? Didn't act like a shop rat, that's for sure.

I think you should have taken it up with them at the time or at least found out what exactly happened so that we have the facts and not guesses.

Personally, if someone treated me like that, I'd demand to see the owner IMMEDIATELY.

They are both good guys. I would have given the nod to Brad for technical prowess, except for the complaint from Atomic, which has me worried. Mark is a SUPER SUPER guy to deal with and Siblet and I owe him a lot.

Yeah, I'd like to thank him for showing up and bringing this nice snow. BUT, he's in for some really cold days. Wednesday the HIGH is supposed to be 5 degrees. What's he wear? Maybe I should keep an eye out for him.

Well, it's begun snowing in earnest. Twelve inches at my house in the last 24 hours. The mountain is reporting 21 inches in the last week, but that must not include today! I loved the ski reporter's first sentence this AM: "Hey all you weekday powderhounds, that low pay part time job is going to pay off!! " That describes me these days. Anyway, I have some pictures. It was definitely snowing all day, so no sun and plenty of low flying clouds. First two pictures are on Russ's Street, a long flat run coming off the top of the mountain. It's a green run, so had been groomed last night: Looking "down" Looking "back up hill" This is part of the way down Toni Matt, looking back at the main chair. Visibility had improved enough to take this. This is on another "groomed" run, Goat Haunt, about mid-day: My leg, you can see the snow is just below my knee. Yes, I am on a ski. (I discovered the K2 XP's are good to about boot top, then get to be a bit too narrow as we approach knee deep snow.) Looking back up Ed's Run, an ungroomed blue. This was the run that showed me my ski's limits. I started trying to turn in other people's tracks.:

I am saving the use of my Recons until my husband "gives" them to me on Christmas. Besides, it's still early season conditions here. But my XP's are still super skis (grandpa to Recon). Only issue is they are not created to handle a lot of boilerplate. Some is fine, but they have to be kept tuned.

Big Mountain is still not fully open, although we opened in mid-November. The back side is open and has great powder. When I skied there yesterday, they had left about 8 inches of fresh on most of the runs, which was nice. BUT, since there is not much open, it was pretty much tracked out by 10 AM. (We open at 9:30). I went down Moose the day before. I question whether it should have been labeled an open trail as it was in backcountry shape. Lots of trees, bushes, and a gully down the middle I never knew existed!!! I got suckered into it because at the top it just looked like a few trees, but once past the "no return" point, the gully, bushes, rocks, etc. were lying in wait. The guy I was skiing with was not happy at my suggestion of trying the thing. We both survived, but there were no high scores on form. I don't get off again until Monday. But the last I looked I was ranked 37th in terms of vertical there (that won't last, I'll start slipping as the season wears on.) The kid has finals coming up and was just home, so the last thing she needs is mom distracting her. I MIGHT try to fit in a Bridger visit when I go down to bring her back for Christmas (she leaves me the following day for races in Mammoth), but Bridger would depend on when her exam is over that day. No sense dragging skis and boots down if I can fit in less than 3 hours of skiing.

I have warmer sticks. THERE IS NO WAY I am going to remove the liner every day. That is a major undertaking. The boots sit on a radiant-heated floor with sticks in them whenever there are not feet in them. Since I am not going to pull out the liner every day, they DO stink. But only when my feet aren't in them.

I don't know, they also added this ridge under my arch, so I took them out in the middle of the second day. It felt like I had high heels on. I already have heel lifts under my liners because of some calf issue and the boots have a high arch and I don't. The existing heel lifts move my foot up relative to the arch. The Superfeet made the lift ridiculous AND added back in arch that I spent a lot of time flattening. I just returned them during the honeymoon period. Feet were warmer today because I dressed warmer.

I tried a pair of those Superfeet inserts, the green ones, not the molded ones, and they added way too much heel lift!!!! I felt like I was carving great...with the tails of the skis. I was looking for more heel stabilization (I have custom footbeds, but they are totally under the foot, no wrap around the heel). I returned the Superfeet on their great return policy and got Scholls conformables instead, just to cut down on some packed-out boot issues. They are still a bit too much "extra stuff", but things are sure snug now. Trouble is, my toes are getting cold fast. Not sure how much is weather (9 degrees on the summit yesterday, excluding any windchill) and how much is lack of blood circulation.

I have some heat molded things I got at the loft years ago -- don't know the name, they have a red rubber top sheet. Frankly, I didn't USE them for the first four years I had them. They didn't feel right. Then last year I need to take up some space in my well-packed out boots and did some trimming of the footbeds and stuck them in. What a revelation! I can't take them in and out, tho, without a massive effort, so the boots don't really dry out underneath of them. They are just too stiff to take in and out without tearing up the inside of the boot.

They definitely stretch out over time. Eventually they will be so stretched out they'll fall off your boots. Then you can pass them to bigdaddyk. They come in three or four different sizes.

I would assume she is going to Camelback as it's posted in the Camelback forum. Of course, you could be right and she just posted here without realizing it's CB related.

Dish Network's not carrying OLN either.

Truth time. The front of the ski area in the morning: View of the Swan Range and the valley in the morning: Early morning look down "the anthill" and across towards Glacier National Park: View into the valley at the end of the day on "the anthill": View of the snow ghosts along the top of Hellroaring Basin (not open yet): Coming down Russ's Street at the end of the day: End of day, about to descend into the clouds:

They were definitely open for Thanksgiving one year when we had the place in the Village. I never skied there in November, but there were folks skiing that weekend.

Well, I got a few runs in yesterday so I can comment. Conditions at the mountain VISUALLY are terrific. We've been trapped in an inversion situation for about a week now, but on the mountain it is all sun and blue sky. I wanted to take pictures yesterday, but it turned out I left the data card from my camera back in the locker and didn't want to spend time getting it because I was just fitting in a few runs before work. The valleys in every direction had heavy looking white clouds in them and just the snowy mountain tops were poking through here and there. It was great. Anyway, not sure if there will be much more open when your friends come. The back of the mountain (North side) is fine, but the rest -- forget it. They'll get pretty bored if they have to spend a week just skiing the back. Even the back has trees poking up through the snow here and there. Plus, at least yesterday (a Sunday), lines were forming since it was the only lift open. We need snow.

I thought that the idea should only be compared with identical body shapes going on, but started to wonder about the turbulence issue. So basically it's because the midair body position is not as aerodynamic as it could be and not due to some turbulence difference as you get closer to the ground?

If you picture your skis going down the hill, they are cutting thru air even when they are on the ground. Basically, you are on an edge most of the time, anything not touching the course is by default passing through air. I guess conceivably each inch your body takes off the snow allows more air turbulence below your body to occur but aeronautics is not my strong suit.

I thought it was because if the skis are off the ground you have no way to turn and control your direction? I can't see from a physics reason why removing your skis from the ground three inches or more without a corresponding change in your body position would cause you to slow down. Theoretically, the drag coefficient would be less I would think. Unless you are telling me that the exposed edge of the ski drags more against air than snow?

I think we're about 100 miles south of Fernie. Never been up there. Everytime I think maybe the conditions will be better up there, I check their website and it doesn't sound like it.

They are now saying we open on Saturday.

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It's a bit hard to say "usually" as this is just my third winter here. We get most of our snow, according to weather sites, in December and January. We are getting little bits of snow now every day, but the days have been warmer than freezing, so at least at 3700 feet where our house is, it's not accumulating much. The mountain started MAKING snow on the lower elevations a few weeks back and would normally open Thanksgiving Day. I've heard they may open a week early, but have seen no confirmation. How will it be on December 3? Who knows? It is unlikely to be 100% open, but the back side will be fantastic, as always. It (the back side) will be 100% open, I am sure. Everything depends on the weather. December 3rd is a bit early to expect much at ANY area, IMO. You should probably get them to purchase a five day pass for $175 as long as they get it before 12/3. Other than that, early season pricing is $39 a day. They could show up and display season passes from another area and possibly get more discounting, but I am not sure since the early season tickets are already at a reduced cost. Things look good so far.