Whitefish today pic

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 hours ago, sibhusky said:

I mostly ski alone. I might ski a run or share a lift with others I know, but, like me, they don't like "pack skiing."

People party on the mountain in costume and get drunk. I exit when they start dong stupid stuff.

My locker room buddies are all busy emptying their lockers. Most are, like me, old as dirt, because there's an 8 year waiting list and you're going to be pretty old before you think you want to pay that kind of money, then you have to wait for one of us to die.

One couple I ski with is back in Florida, emptying their house so they can move here in May. But I expect we'll see them all year round once they move. I guess other than them, everyone else is an actual LOCAL. Like, I'll see them at the grocery store. It's not a metro area. People don't vanish.

How much does whitefish charge for a locker?  I enjoy a combination of skiing alone and with others..I give you major props at your commitment to skiing and sharing it with others.  

[sibhusky]

5 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

How much does whitefish charge for a locker

$590. It used to be around $100. It's nuts. I'm sure it'll be $625 next season.

[indiggio]

6 hours ago, sibhusky said:

$590. It used to be around $100. It's nuts. I'm sure it'll be $625 next season.

Blue kept jacking up the price of a locker each year too.
Once it broke $200, I punted.  It just wasn't worth the price of admission anymore.
Walking to the car to swap out skis, etc. gives me the opportunity to have a beer break too.
Of course, the walk to the car isn't very far, so YMMV.

[enjoralas]

54 minutes ago, indiggio said:

Blue kept jacking up the price of a locker each year too.
Once it broke $200, I punted.  It just wasn't worth the price of admission anymore.
Walking to the car to swap out skis, etc. gives me the opportunity to have a beer break too.
Of course, the walk to the car isn't very far, so YMMV.

I did too, but I'm back in next season, lol. Just too convenient to leave the gear at the hill, especially with the kids. And being able to stash an extra pair of goggles, gloves, etc came in handy more than once 

[indiggio]

2 hours ago, enjoralas said:

I did too, but I'm back in next season, lol. Just too convenient to leave the gear at the hill, especially with the kids. And being able to stash an extra pair of goggles, gloves, etc came in handy more than once 

Yeah, I could see that, especially if you have a shit-ton of equipment that you have to lug back/forth from home.

[enjoralas]

1 hour ago, indiggio said:

Yeah, I could see that, especially if you have a shit-ton of equipment that you have to lug back/forth from home.

Now I just need to convince them to let me drill a hole in my locker to pass a cable from a battery  bank to a solar panel so I can also leave the boot warmer and glove dryer in there, lol

[sibhusky]

24 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

Now I just need to convince them to let me drill a hole in my locker to pass a cable from a battery  bank to a solar panel so I can also leave the boot warmer and glove dryer in there, lol

Yeah, I bring the boots home every time. Two or three times their fire sprinklers went off and there was water coming down from the ceiling. I don't care if my skis get wet, but the boots are another thing. 

 

Finished 83rd on the vert list.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

39 minutes ago, sibhusky said:

Yeah, I bring the boots home every time. Two or three times their fire sprinklers went off and there was water coming down from the ceiling. I don't care if my skis get wet, but the boots are another thing. 

 

Finished 83rd on the vert list.

You hit a million?  

[indiggio]

2 hours ago, enjoralas said:

Now I just need to convince them to let me drill a hole in my locker to pass a cable from a battery  bank to a solar panel so I can also leave the boot warmer and glove dryer in there, lol

Better to ask forgiveness than permission...

[indiggio]

1 hour ago, sibhusky said:

Yeah, I bring the boots home every time. Two or three times their fire sprinklers went off and there was water coming down from the ceiling. I don't care if my skis get wet, but the boots are another thing. 

 

Finished 83rd on the vert list.

yeah, boot liners come out every night and go onto the dryers.

Congratulations!

[sibhusky]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

You hit a million?  

And then some. Not quite 1.2. 

Below is resort stats. It's missing a ton of scans for lifts with lazy lifties, but they over-credit for chair 2, so the actual numbers are very slightly higher. Like 7000 feet.

 

 

Edited April 7 by sibhusky

[sibhusky]

Ugh. Kept trying to attach wrong screen print and ran out of time.

[sibhusky]

New locker price will be $610, with a requirement that the owner is a pass holder. I guess dead people have been letting their kids and grandkids use them.

[sibhusky]

Glutton for punishment

https://whitefishpilot.com/news/2025/apr/09/king-of-vert-a-tremendous-feat/

[sibhusky]

more on the guy.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2025/04/17/vertical-feat-how-a-retired-school-teacher-smashed-big-mountains-boldest-skiing-record

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

That is insane. I bet he doesn’t ride certain lifts or ski certain runs because he’ll lose vert.  I’ve stopped caring and and half my ski days out west seem to be pow days and then it’s total quality over quantity and groomer days you rack up 20k in 3 hours.  

[mute1080]

On 4/11/2025 at 8:18 PM, sibhusky said:

Glutton for punishment

https://whitefishpilot.com/news/2025/apr/09/king-of-vert-a-tremendous-feat/

84k+ a day average 🤯

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, mute1080 said:

84k+ a day average 🤯

You can only pull that off at a place that’s uncrowded. 

[Schif]

48 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

You can only pull that off at a place that’s uncrowded. 

And with a lot of vert/lift. It would take 14 hours to get 84k vert at Blue. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 hours ago, Schif said:

And with a lot of vert/lift. It would take 14 hours to get 84k vert at Blue. 

I’ll have to dig up my old stats but in high school I’d ski 7:30-5 at blue with a lunch break and usually be in the 50s or 60s.  I beat 70k at Stowe before 7:30-4.  Biggest day since I joined PASR was 61,000 at Jackson hole 1/25/07 and that was a 9-4 day with lunch break and I had spaghetti at the Casper lodge. A lot of runs that day off the gondola, 10 minutes up and under three minutes down 2800 vert mostly straight down Sundance gully and that’s not when I was afraid to haul ass. 

[sibhusky]

21 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

That is insane. I bet he doesn’t ride certain lifts or ski certain runs because he’ll lose vert.  I’ve stopped caring and and half my ski days out west seem to be pow days and then it’s total quality over quantity and groomer days you rack up 20k in 3 hours.  

Well, if you read the article, he says he confined himself THIS YEAR to chair 4 and selected a route based on conditions, crowds, etc. I think it was a choice of 3 or 4 possibles but then the same all day. I did ride chair 2 with him once because 4 had a delayed start. I know otherwise the runs he probably used are the ones I generally avoid because of nuts like him. Fred Frost, much quoted in the article, and now 83, skis everywhere. In the past, when he was usually in the top 5, he even went off piste in trees. 

Hopefully this guy got it out of his system. They put up tons of signs this year about skiing too fast. I'm sure it was him. In the past, they didn't give a shit. They would say they did, but only occasionally pulled passes after collisions, no signage. Certainly no policing.

Edited April 18 by sibhusky

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

51 minutes ago, sibhusky said:

Well, if you read the article, he says he confined himself THIS YEAR to chair 4 and selected a route based on conditions, crowds, etc. I think it was a choice of 3 or 4 possibles but then the same all day. I did ride chair 2 with him once because 4 had a delayed start. I know otherwise the runs he probably used are the ones I generally avoid because of nuts like him. Fred Frost, much quoted in the article, and now 83, skis everywhere. In the past, when he was usually in the top 5, he even went off piste in trees. 

Hopefully this guy got it out of his system. They put up tons of signs this year about skiing too fast. I'm sure it was him. In the past, they didn't give a shit. They would say they did, but only occasionally pulled passes after collisions, no signage. Certainly no policing.

Hi I didn’t read the article…back when I was 25 I skied as fast as I could even 30…now I wanna make it to the next ski day..enjoy myself…between a hard head on collision I had with a 5th grader (both of our faults) and just being older more risk averse I’ve dialed it back and I have a blast everyday I ski and I’ll pussyfoot down blue mountain and Jackson hole black diamonds if unsure of conditions..survival skiing..I used to not give two shits about conditions just send it…and I can say all that but some days things just click and I have a lot of extra spring in my step and let em run more…I know this last Jackson hole trip cause I was down 15-20 pounds from prior year I had a lot more giddy-up for 2-3 hours till I ran out of steam.  
 

As long as he’s slowing down for the slow zones. 

Edited April 18 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

100k vertical attempt at Whistler by James from rise and alpine. Ski fast rip ass!!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CpGmbS81dQ

[sibhusky]

5 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

100k vertical attempt at Whistler by James from rise and alpine. Ski fast rip ass!!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CpGmbS81dQ

He apparently did 137K. More than any of Donnay's 100k+ days. He did that on days we have night skiing.

Edited Friday at 07:10 PM by sibhusky

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

4 hours ago, sibhusky said:

He apparently did 137K. More than any of Donnay's 100k+ days. He did that on days we have night skiing.

James 84k vert was impressive at Whistler especially with spring conditions..now think about the 24 hours of Aspen..and the silver Queen gondola is not quite as efficient as some of the high speed quads and six’s because it covers a lot of linear terrain and you have to take your skis off and back on unless you’re @saltyant but gondola comfortable if bad weather or you wanna eat.  I still prefer chairlifts