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[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

23 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

Is all that food just from today?! Holy fuck. 

Lunch and dinner and dinner was super light really just a few bites and some soup..Breakfast had that breakfast sandwich from Starbucks I post earlier no booze today..no altitude sickness either. 

Edited April 18, 2019 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2” new overnight.  I’ll take it. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

2” new overnight.  I’ll take it. 

The 3 is now open..time to get suited up and ski some fresh at A Bay Bay. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Lifts open in fifteen minutes just got lift ticket. Only 3 kids in line. Dumping and 25 degrees new snow is pretty light.  Ut oh another person going towards lift.  Better get in line.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Ok first chair looks possible might let the groms in front.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Wow what a start skied four runs so far all powder some no visibility and two two videos. 

[toast21602]

Nice! Did you take @saltyant ‘s GoPro?!

[RidgeRacer]

Nice...That looks fantastic

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

The 3 is now open..time to get suited up and ski some fresh at A Bay Bay. 

Loveland Cam at 5” seems accurate..sheesh still so much pow pow pow..west Wall was deep and I recorded a few videos for Facebook.  Not the easiest skiing trees with poles in one hand and slippery wet iPhone in other hand.  

 

Starting to get busier. 7th or 8th lift ride finally rode with another person. Gonna do a couple more runs and probably hit up the one cafe in Silverthorne for breakfast food since I just had a crappy danish and banana earlier.  JADIP...

Edited April 18, 2019 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

4/18/19

 

Abasin...day 3 or 6....

 

Hey All I’m back from a sleeper powder day at Abasin.  I got a great last fix of winter today in the form of 3 straight hours of untracked powder..I got out of bed around 750am..was on my way around 810am and pulled into Abasin around 835am.  Booted up and it was in the mid 20s with snow falling heavily. @saltyant and @theprogram4 I should have wrapped my adidas parking lot shoes in plastic bags..oh well the lot had lik 2”-3” of untracked pow..I’ve actually never parked so close at Abasin and arrived significantly earlier a few times. 

 

Got second chair at 856am alone and the three Groms in front of me headed 180 degrees back downhill and I headed left to Lenawee and since most of the snow fell in the last few hours I got to break trail...I looked back and nobody..no powder panic to call today a sleeper pow day would be an understatement...I didn’t even ride the lift with anybody until almost 11. The top half of Lenawee was brutal weather. Likely temperatures in th teens..made sure my fly wasn’t down tightened boots and down to Powerline..visibility bad but I know that area better than the ski patrol bowl at Loveland but still a few bouts of vertigo.  Fog sideways snow wind no trees at all at least some snow fences and netting and that area isn’t cliffy like the left of west wall.   Snow on run number one ranged from pristine 4-5” of untouched powder on groomed and skier packed snow from before to dust on crust in wind blown areas to a bit scratchy lower mountain woods at least early on...

 

Skied to the base lower runs still untouched on the sides of main runs..although flats had some tracks at least to maintain speed...skied some sort of woods variation almost every lower run today had to get the fresh...up Lenawee again hoping it had cleared up again no dice it was like 20 minutes later it’s bit Vermont the weather doesn’t change that fast.  Next Lenawee run ventures afar a little more found plenty of fresh and a few people made visibility better...or someone to say googly moogly I cant see shit..goggles were champions...kept them on entire time no fog..and was moist today  

By like 1030ish the base area was getting busy and the early riser lot was full with overflow lots filling up with people..I did a human slalom through the people at the base and almost was able to coast to the Pali lift, if I was on Roots monsters no problem..up Pali..wet seat wet pants no safety bar..ride was actually pretty pleasent wind not nearly as bad there because it’s several hundred vert below the top of Lenawee..didn’t ski montazuma today..can’t see shit times 6 no trees top half..but will save that and more Pali and beavers areas for the weekend.  

 

I saw a few go down Pali face and was mostly refrozen moguls..nope went to west wall that was just skier packed..two days ago..it skied like the cirque at JH..a nice wide wall..in sunshine I could have bombed it as like 8 out of 9 turns were soft..some bottomless but no where near the vis or consistency to put the hammer down. Was cool I milked it...Did Lenawee one more time around 11 was the same conditions as earlier and more people but again people not so bad in low vis just don’t stop in the middle of the trail..lol like I did when I was making videos.  Skied down onto the lower mountain and still was getting pow and saw a few new spots far skiers right and different views was still dark still snowing...saw mini line for black mountain express rode that one more time did another lower mountain variation and was out...was able to ski to my car..actually wasn’t my car it was a white suburban I was a row over. Mad Homer Simpson. Oh well...on the way down to keystone the temperature went from the 20s to 30s and then 40s in Silverthorne. I went to a blue lion cafe which switched locations had to google maps to see new spot pretty much a few blocks south of the Target.  Had steak and eggs...hit up dispensary now posted up like a thumbtack. I took a ton of pictures today I’ll try to post some now and some later due to lack of bandwidth. 

[RidgeRacer]

Pow and steak...I'd definitely call that a great day. Nice work!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Last night was lazy and just got Wendy’s.  Slept in until 645am this morning, had the free breakfast and gonna relax a little more and head to copper around 830..easy 15 minute drive away and today is a bluebird.  Gonna watch the new Lil Dicky video because I’m a dickhead. 

[Kyle]

Rack it!!!! 

[saltyant]

TFTI. Let me know how Copper is and post a report!! I was originally going to Copper next year but it's not on the Epic pass so I guess Breckenridge or Keystone. 🤷‍♂️

[theprogram4]

doug is a fucking powder magnet.  its amazing how he gets powder pretty much every trip he makes out west.  enjoy it doug!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice morning so far at copper skier 6 runs so far mostly groomers scored some untracked near the top of the Sierra lift was still light and dry.  In the woods now getting safe.  

 

Took some B roll footage again minute and a half groomer off timberline I’ll post later on Facebook.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, saltyant said:

TFTI. Let me know how Copper is and post a report!! I was originally going to Copper next year but it's not on the Epic pass so I guess Breckenridge or Keystone. 🤷‍♂️

You’d fit right in.  Lots of Jerry’s.  

[toast21602]

Sick bird!!

[saltyant]

10 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

You’d fit right in.  Lots of Jerry’s.  

Okay.

[RootDKJ]

Great pics gss!  WTGAI

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Transitioning to spring snow.  I have a couple more runs in me than gonna go to Vietnamese restaurant in Silverthorne.  

[Shadows]

You pick the weirdest food options.

[saltyant]

Wow quitting already? It's only 12:05 in CO. When I go out there I ski from open to last chair.

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2 hours ago, theprogram4 said:

doug is a fucking powder magnet.  its amazing how he gets powder pretty much every trip he makes out west.  enjoy it doug!

I had a bad run several years back in JH...6 years in a row coming to Colorado in April and last season was the best with four pow days but I’ll take one and a half pow days anytime like this trip.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

15 minutes ago, Shadows said:

You pick the weirdest food options.

What would you eat on a ski trip?  Hopefully not $20 bullshit cafeteria lunch.   Hmmm I like Mexican and Japanese and Vietnamese and American food.  Probably get corned beef nachos for supper tonight.