Justo8484 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Kt got a sick nipple tat. Can't post it here cause it's definitely not PG. Quote
toast21602 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Report Posted March 12, 2011 phyuck. sick day at bird! drunk will post tomorrow if not drunk. Quote
jordan Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Terrain does look pretty mellow from the video. Any areas where hop turns are required? god damn, you are a gaper 2 Quote
toast21602 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Report Posted March 12, 2011 Photos from Snowbasin on Thursday: bombs going off Kevin Justin Korey Basin bacon cheeseburger (because what is a day of skiing without a report on food?) Kevin's 7 in the backcountry Justin. Yesterday we skied Snowbird. Didn't take too many pictures, but there are a few that can be posted later. World Freeride Tour was there so we were watching people throw themselves off of cliffs and rip crazy lines. awesome day. Quote
Glenn Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Good looking lines and a great looking apron here. Quote
jordan Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 then they have someone drive a van up and down the road picking you up and ferrying you back to the base area where you catch a lift and repeat..... I've never seen anywhere else do this kind of thing and it just about sums up the place. silverton does this 11 people with full gear in a pickup bed earlier this season btw: great photos. Utah is looking great right now. Wish I could be there for sure. Although...another week of this crazy warm weather we have been having in colorado, and it'll be time for steep BC lines in no time. (maybe by my spring break (hopefully)) Quote
jordan Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 that was a little bit of a level....anyway I prefer terrain that requires mandatory GS turns.. i'm sorry, that was a bit harsh of me.. Billygoat lines sure are fun, but to say that anything less than that is lame is ridiculous. I have skied at quite a few places, but can think of only two resorts that even have the kind of terrain you are talking about; CB and Silverton. This is not to say that other places don't have steep, fun as hell terrain, just nothing that requires a reasonably good skier to do hop turns. It is quite easy to link up turns on 50+ degree pitches with no hop turns. That pitch sure gets my blood pumping though. Quote
trackbiker Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 Glad you're getting the goods out there. I was out there last year and skied Alta and Snowbird. Liked Snowbird better than Alta even though I was looking forward to skiing an area that didn't allow snowboading. (no offense intended to our snowboarding friends. I was just so used to hearing that scraping sound behind me in PA from out of control boarders that I was looking for a relaxed ski experience. I ski with a friend who boards and just spent 5 days in VT with my nephew who is a boarder but I am not worried about them hitting me.) Well there is no "scraping" sound out west as the conditions are so good. Had a powder day at Alta and Snowbird. There are plenty of off the map places to find powder at Alta and Snowbird even with the rush on a powder day. Had a local show me some lines at Alta later in the day only because he said, "It wasn't crowded that day", and Snowbird was empty on Easter Sunday and there were plenty of lines all day. The Mormons were all in church and no one from out of the area is booking trips that late. I don't think I'll ever have as good conditions on such an uncrowded day. A good friend of mine told me that Powder Mountain is the best place to ski out there on a powder day. Fresh lines all day and no crowds. Quote
RootDKJ Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 Photos from Snowbasin on Thursday: bombs going off Kevin Justin Korey Basin bacon cheeseburger (because what is a day of skiing without a report on food?) Kevin's 7 in the backcountry Justin. Yesterday we skied Snowbird. Didn't take too many pictures, but there are a few that can be posted later. World Freeride Tour was there so we were watching people throw themselves off of cliffs and rip crazy lines. awesome day. Good of you to stay sober enough to post a few pics. Quote
Glenn Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 i'm sorry, that was a bit harsh of me.. Billygoat lines sure are fun, but to say that anything less than that is lame is ridiculous. I have skied at quite a few places, but can think of only two resorts that even have the kind of terrain you are talking about; CB and Silverton. This is not to say that other places don't have steep, fun as hell terrain, just nothing that requires a reasonably good skier to do hop turns. It is quite easy to link up turns on 50+ degree pitches with no hop turns. That pitch sure gets my blood pumping though. Jump turns can be linked, and it's how most people ski anything reasonably steep and tight. Although it may not be as dramatic as the full stop jump turns of the yesteryear and the ultra steep coulies in Euroland. In open terrain with halfway decent snow jump turns are kind of silly. silverton does this So did Berthoud when it was open. WP has a resort bus that serves multiple purposes but it aids in side country skiing, as does Big Sky/Moonlight. I know there have to be others out there too. Quote
jordan Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 Jump turns can be linked, and it's how most people ski anything reasonably steep and tight. Although it may not be as dramatic as the full stop jump turns of the yesteryear and the ultra steep coulies in Euroland. In open terrain with halfway decent snow jump turns are kind of silly. I agree, but still stand by the fact that very few resorts have anything tight and steep enough to justify hop turns. The terrain exists, but its usually not in bounds at ski resorts. So did Berthoud when it was open. WP has a resort bus that serves multiple purposes but it aids in side country skiing, as does Big Sky/Moonlight. I know there have to be others out there too. side-note, but have you ever poached the yellowstone club? if so..how easy is it to do. I have heard amazing things about that place. Quote
Glenn Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 I agree, but still stand by the fact that very few resorts have anything tight and steep enough to justify hop turns. The terrain exists, but its usually not in bounds at ski resorts. Thats why you should come to Bridger. Not because you want to hop turn, but because it has terrain that most hills do not. side-note, but have you ever poached the yellowstone club? if so..how easy is it to do. I have heard amazing things about that place. I've never poached it. A friend works lifts there and said he would bring me up on an employee day and I could more or less "blend in". It looked cool from Big Sky but from the areas we could see it was more tracked out than the back areas of Big sky. It has some cool terrain. You can literally just ski over, there is no one keeping you out, but then you are stuck in a gated community or stuck trying to get up one of their lifts. All 4 hills in the area let you come and go between, but if you are stuck without a ticket they can and do call the cops. The ticket checkers have really nice incentives for catching people. Quote
toast21602 Posted March 13, 2011 Author Report Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) Snowbird on Friday: tunnel kevin tram justin us justin para skier man korey parking lot tinnies went back to Powder yesterday and had a blast. i think there are some good pictures and video that we got so maybe i'll post that up later after we get back from Basin today. Edited March 13, 2011 by toast21602 Quote
AtomicSkier Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 nice TR and pics....how many more days you guys there? Quote
toast21602 Posted March 13, 2011 Author Report Posted March 13, 2011 went back to Powder yesterday. Snowbasin today. and tomorrow we are going to finish up at Powder again. here are some pics from Powder yesterday. Sunny and warm. a few flurries fell. snow got a little choppy but we still found some awesome stashes to rip lines in and some fun stuff to jump off of. here are some pics from Powder yesterday. Quote
AtomicSkier Posted March 13, 2011 Report Posted March 13, 2011 Justin...put your yellow jacket back on. Quote
toast21602 Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Posted March 14, 2011 by the way doug, we hiked some shit that hop turns were more than necessary today. Quote
Timeless Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 Good looking lines and a great looking apron here. If memory serves me correctly this is just above the sun deck on one of the many really nice lodges, so you can see all the lemmings dropping in while you eat, "dinner and a show". Quote
mbike-ski Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) pics and report are awesome - trip looks fanfuckintastic Justin. all the pics are sweet but the wack perspective in this one is way cool, looks like a big ass hop turn Edited March 14, 2011 by mbike-ski Quote
Johnny Law Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 Back in the day Woody who I believe is now an ops manager drove the pow country "bus". The original bus was a flat bed truck with and aluminum sheet bed, sure as shit nearly every time he'd gun it to make the turn near sunshine people would get thrown out. I think the next year they added an overhead tarp which did absolutely nothing, now they got sweet as shit buses....wish they kept the flat bed's really weeded out the gapers. lulz Woody was the shit....one night after a couple days of big dumps the access road was shit so everyone is riding the bus from that private club near Wolf. Woody's son dumps bus one in the ditch and bus two is still in the top lot trying to get out, he orders all of us to get in the back and start jumping while two snow mobiles and a cat are pulling from the front. Significantly shortened the life of that bus but we got out. There's got to be 1-2ft on the road and dude is doing like 40mph down the road, the fucking ass end of the bus is moving around like Michael J Fox on coke and he's on the radio yelling at his kid. Greatest feat of snow driving I've ever seen. If you see woody ask him about his friend in Florida who sends him grapefruits and invented that floaty thing life guards use.......serious lulz Oh Pow Mow how you've grown........ 1 Quote
Johnny Law Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) If memory serves me correctly this is just above the sun deck on one of the many really nice lodges, so you can see all the lemmings dropping in while you eat, "dinner and a show". Its Mt. Ogden I believe from the John Paul lodge, the coke can and No Name/ Allen are to the right. Two peaks down is demoisy with Y Chute and Flamingo, the line in between those two requires linked jump turns but that area isn't open very much. Edit for pic: Snow basin has the easiest slack lines in UT, a little tram car will come and get you and bring you back to the base. Edited March 14, 2011 by Johnny Law Quote
toast21602 Posted March 15, 2011 Author Report Posted March 15, 2011 pics from yesterday at Snowbasin after about 3" fell making everything tons of fun. most of the pictures were taken after hiking up Sister's bowl and dropping in. went back to powder today. got about 4-5" of new snow. might get around to posting those pictures soon. maybe not. once i get home i have a ton of shit to catch up on in the real world. Quote
Timeless Posted March 15, 2011 Report Posted March 15, 2011 Best trip report and pictures of the season, by far. Makes me want to go to Utah again as soon as possible and really nice to see people enjoying places like powmow without bitching about the lack of steeps. Thanks 1 Quote
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