Freshies on April 13th

norona · 04-14-2009, 04:44 AM

Beautiful Day!

Joe Dick · 04-14-2009, 05:04 AM

nice.

it was a good day here as well, 20-30cm on a sun crust. couple mellow shots in the trees then we pushed up high.

I hate this skin track at the best of times. spiddy sences screamming at me, but my stubbornness won out. got to the top and the clouds broke to show us a small slab we remote triggered on the way up.

skinned a long the ridge line and poped off a size two which ran full path. only took out a small portion of our skin track, and that was only because i've seen this slope slide so meny times i had a very good idea where to put the up track.

remote triggered evey line we looked at, all N-NE. kind of wondered how the F we made it up top.

cleaned out a gully which again ran full path, and ripped the hang fire back to the protected goodness.

made for a pretty fun day all in all.

play safe.

apeshape · 04-14-2009, 05:20 AM

Good stuff that powder.

Sharon · 04-14-2009, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Dick

nice.

remote triggered evey line we looked at, all N-NE. kind of wondered how the F we made it up top.

play safe.

Did you buy a loto ticket today!

norona · 04-14-2009, 05:33 AM

Joe thanks for sharing. We skied off No Name on Brohm first and it was bomber and held all morning. After lunch we hit our fav tree area the top part is nice and then it rolls over to a steeper pitch. These convex rolls were dropping easy as i skied to within 15 feet of them, down about 10 inches and propagating across. We could skirt them but we retreated from the area and skied another mellow section before calling it a day. A healthy reminder that this recent snowfall sits on a very sun baked layer from last weekend. Be careful out there...

LeeLau · 04-14-2009, 05:38 AM

Jesus christ a/ No comment necessary on your snowpack.

clarklewis · 04-14-2009, 05:42 AM

good grief people, that's sketchy. how about mountain biking?

norona · 04-14-2009, 06:25 AM

Hey Clark, yah riding tomorrow morning, hope your well.

Joe Dick · 04-14-2009, 03:30 PM

it's funny eh, just a couple hundered feet lower, we where finding the the first 10-15 cm's of storm snow had bonded very well to the sun crust, but there was a storm snow interface that was sluffing far and fast.

gaining the ridge line we started to notice many settlements and propagating cracks. clean slabs on hand shears. we talked about turning around, but I'm stuborn, very very stuborn. so we managed some angles, tighted our sphinkers and pushed on. :shakes head, wags finger:

I'm guessing the storm snow was sitting on a layer of hail or graple. which is also what was causing the failure in the storm snow lower down.

like the wolf says, your can get lucky for a long time, but some day it's going to bite you in the ass.

snowing at my house today, tomorrow could be fun

04-14-2009, 04:44 AM	#1
norona Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: North Vancouver Posts: 1,790 Rep Power: 960075	Freshies on April 13th Beautiful Day! __________________ www.noronalife.com/blog/ www.noronalife.com/moto

04-14-2009, 05:04 AM	#2
Joe Dick JVLC Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: 15 beer into a 6 pack Posts: 1,722 Rep Power: 1774990	nice. it was a good day here as well, 20-30cm on a sun crust. couple mellow shots in the trees then we pushed up high. I hate this skin track at the best of times. spiddy sences screamming at me, but my stubbornness won out. got to the top and the clouds broke to show us a small slab we remote triggered on the way up. skinned a long the ridge line and poped off a size two which ran full path. only took out a small portion of our skin track, and that was only because i've seen this slope slide so meny times i had a very good idea where to put the up track. remote triggered evey line we looked at, all N-NE. kind of wondered how the F we made it up top. cleaned out a gully which again ran full path, and ripped the hang fire back to the protected goodness. made for a pretty fun day all in all. play safe. __________________ Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm.

04-14-2009, 05:20 AM	#3
apeshape In the trees Join Date: May 2003 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 4,858 Rep Power: 78419	Good stuff that powder. __________________ You can all go to hell. I'll be joining you shortly and I'm bringing beer and cheetos.

04-14-2009, 05:33 AM	#5
norona Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: North Vancouver Posts: 1,790 Rep Power: 960075	Joe thanks for sharing. We skied off No Name on Brohm first and it was bomber and held all morning. After lunch we hit our fav tree area the top part is nice and then it rolls over to a steeper pitch. These convex rolls were dropping easy as i skied to within 15 feet of them, down about 10 inches and propagating across. We could skirt them but we retreated from the area and skied another mellow section before calling it a day. A healthy reminder that this recent snowfall sits on a very sun baked layer from last weekend. Be careful out there... __________________ www.noronalife.com/blog/ www.noronalife.com/moto

04-14-2009, 05:42 AM	#7
clarklewis **** Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: whistler Posts: 2,022 Rep Power: 2006943	good grief people, that's sketchy. how about mountain biking? Last edited by clarklewis; 04-14-2009 at 08:48 AM.

04-14-2009, 05:38 AM	#6
LeeLau Trail Plug Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 6,681 Rep Power: 83179	Jesus christ a/ No comment necessary on your snowpack.

04-14-2009, 06:25 AM	#8
norona Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: North Vancouver Posts: 1,790 Rep Power: 960075	Hey Clark, yah riding tomorrow morning, hope your well. __________________ www.noronalife.com/blog/ www.noronalife.com/moto

04-14-2009, 03:30 PM	#9
Joe Dick JVLC Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: 15 beer into a 6 pack Posts: 1,722 Rep Power: 1774990	it's funny eh, just a couple hundered feet lower, we where finding the the first 10-15 cm's of storm snow had bonded very well to the sun crust, but there was a storm snow interface that was sluffing far and fast. gaining the ridge line we started to notice many settlements and propagating cracks. clean slabs on hand shears. we talked about turning around, but I'm stuborn, very very stuborn. so we managed some angles, tighted our sphinkers and pushed on. :shakes head, wags finger: I'm guessing the storm snow was sitting on a layer of hail or graple. which is also what was causing the failure in the storm snow lower down. like the wolf says, your can get lucky for a long time, but some day it's going to bite you in the ass. snowing at my house today, tomorrow could be fun __________________ Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm.

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