Padded Seat Update 16/17

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16 Mar 2017 18:25 #229239 by flowing alpy

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Light chalk covered blue ice turning to breakable bottomless slushee.
************^^^^^>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>vvvvvvvv........

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16 Mar 2017 19:44 #229240 by Griff

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Now that is a killer day of skiing. Damn. Love the hieroglyphics too!!

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17 Mar 2017 07:42 #229245 by flowing alpy

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it was an ego killer that's 4 sure:-)

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17 Mar 2017 11:52 #229250 by Jim Oker

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No character building just down the street yesterday, unless you ventured off the groomers or heavily skied non-groomers. But plenty of ego snow!

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17 Mar 2017 14:42 #229251 by Griff

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It was almost embarrassing, to be
the only one in P4 and on C1 at 9 :

Country club day on the groomers
Didn't even think about C2
Left when it got crowded at 1030
Like 12 people
Plus the poor dad with his little kids
I saw them get to the top on my 3rd lap
They were halfway down as I finished
my last lap 8, 60 minutes later :-[

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17 Mar 2017 17:20 #229253 by Jim Oker

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Did the groomers there soften up nicely, as they did at Central?

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18 Mar 2017 09:26 #229257 by Griff

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^^^^^ I left just as they were. Car read 36 and telemetry confirms. But the firm groomers were actually decent all the way down to the top of C3 and then I found one good groomer track down Sessel that I kept hitting. LOL. Seriously, one. I don't mind skiing firm groomers, I pretend that I am at Aspen in the World Cup. Damn that's ice.

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18 Mar 2017 11:24 #229258 by Jim Oker

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In New England, "ice" is either blue (really blue, and not grainy), or clear or black. Not white. That's called "frozen granular" in their snow reports. I used to keep my edges well tuned back when I lived there. It was easy to tell the difference underfoot. Paid good money many times to ski frozen granular, often in near 0F and windy conditions. Our "conditions check" was to open the car door in the ski area parking lot and listen for the sound of the turns being made.

Just peeked at the Summit webcams - looks like the gas firepit by the Silver Fir lodge is by far the most popular terrain feature at the moment.

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18 Mar 2017 19:01 #229259 by flowing alpy

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Big Schmoooey mess of snow that skied ok today.
wetage early going to pukage before mixed to nada.
the spackling of new did not stick to that deep old blue.

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19 Mar 2017 09:25 #229265 by flowing alpy

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Firm & Loud as told by The Mrs Flowing this morning.

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19 Mar 2017 14:40 #229266 by flowing alpy

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Softening up real nice.

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19 Mar 2017 19:38 #229272 by Chuck C

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The bc skied really nice today. Once the sun hit other areas everything solidified fast. Shot 4 was not as pleasant as it could have been. But I knew better than to head over there.

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21 Mar 2017 06:32 #229290 by flowing alpy

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Weekend went real well! Today, no bueno.
Happy Spring my friends, ski schmoo 4life.

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23 Mar 2017 19:20 #229317 by flowing alpy

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5" new and schmear turns all day long.

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24 Mar 2017 16:46 #229322 by Griff

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Another delayed start (Day too many)
Why? Not enough bodies (hey management)
Sure sign it's the beginning of the end
Yet a more obvious one was
The snow

See here:

vimeo.com/209992408

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24 Mar 2017 19:02 #229325 by flowing alpy

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Pretty much looked like that today!

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25 Mar 2017 17:46 #229333 by pipedream

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What was good this morning was less good this afternoon,
Glue on schmoo, esp. down low out Elevator gate
Tomorrow's refrozen chunder and loose wet debris
will likely send me a tad further East

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25 Mar 2017 20:29 #229336 by flowing alpy

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morning laps were very well played and the early elevator was nice.

Couple of kids sent Rollen almost Tabke big, not quite but still real big.

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26 Mar 2017 15:53 #229344 by flowing alpy

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Saw A Hard Snow Day

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26 Mar 2017 20:13 #229347 by pipedream

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Ride on, ride off c2 all afternoon
Snow began falling in earnest after 2, telemetry showing 6" new
Everything open, snowing hard at the end of the day
Hard to be upset, even when the chairs will sit dormant until Thurs.

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30 Mar 2017 17:17 #229379 by flowing alpy

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Big Debris firm
Big Snow**.5/****
Private Slopes

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30 Mar 2017 17:35 #229203 by pipedream

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8" new up top on a rain crust rode exactly like you'd expect it to
bigger surprise was how fun the knee-deep slurpee was off 1
although the bigliest surprise of the day was the sheer amount of debris on the Nash side
Thankfully Snake Dance opened in the afternoon before things got too ugly

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31 Mar 2017 20:21 #229388 by flowing alpy

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Good Day Sunshine Good Day
**.6/**** on a buster spring scale

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02 Apr 2017 18:55 #229399 by flowing alpy

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much like winter it snowed most of the day.
debris in all of lower Nash still sucks as of now.

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04 Apr 2017 17:14 #229410 by flowing alpy

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Another Sliver day where the pack started firm but softened slowly.

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07 Apr 2017 16:24 #229446 by flowing alpy

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Sweet lil Friday riding with friends on soft snow and mild air.

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08 Apr 2017 18:58 #229461 by pipedream

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Surfed Silver this morning through the sun breaks and snow showers until the chair went tits up at 2, then scuttled over to Alpental for the remainder of the afternoon. Lower mtn had softened playfully without much stickyness but everything above the Fan was still locked-up tight. One white knuckledragging lap down l'Internationale was enough for me, although I did find the turns in Snake Dance to be of acceptable quality. Tomorrow's shaping up to be a great training day, see you on the slopes!

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09 Apr 2017 19:58 #229467 by pipedream

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2 loaded right away, Nash Gate swung open around 9:30
With no reason to stay inside the ropes, we found ourselves repeatedly on the outside of them
Enjoying the outdoors in Washington on a gorgeous spring day with a sufficient amount of new in which to play
Bell to bell was the call, with a last run all the way from the top of 5456 for some 261 proper fun
Thanks to everyone who came out to have fun in the sun!

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10 Apr 2017 09:28 #229469 by Griff

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What a bonus day, with sun/snow/Nash gate
Wish I had my GoPro on, but didn't think it would be THAT good
So just one shot, of my first 2 laps in the bowl
Before I was 3rd down DD, and 1st down GS > Big Trees

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16 Apr 2017 19:34 #229516 by pipedream

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Good weekend of powder to slush with a little bit of everything between and a nice mix of clouds, flurries and full-on sun!
Excellent company, solid attendance and hopefully enough excitement and fun to make it through another operations-less workweek.

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