17/18 Padded Seats

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06 Jan 2018 19:01 #230640 by flowing alpy

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Ops back up and running
Ice falling from the trees
Nash frozen out from use
Edelweiss, a firm mediocre

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07 Jan 2018 18:09 #230648 by snakeman

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Sunday Ski Report

Debbie's skied ok if you avoided the ice. Problem was vis and the mist that needed to be cleared from you goggles multiple times on the run. Sessel as always was very nice. When vis was good so were the high speed turns.

Edelweiss was reasonably good. The bowl itself was had ice in places but it was easy to find the soft to turn on. Airplane was good and the lower part was groomed for the first time this season. My old back appreciated that.

Nash was a surprise smooth to the turn with little ice. The entrance was very good compared to much of last year. Lower I was mush just past the mid point but was skiable. Found the trees on the far south side of I and th untracked was fun. Rubble is still an issue if you get in it.

No lines.

Overall a 5.5 out of 10
JW

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07 Jan 2018 19:38 #230650 by Griff

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Mediocre Nash gate opening at 1 pm
1st track down into knoll 2 and GB trees
Fun. Warm. Lol.

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07 Jan 2018 20:44 #230651 by flowing alpy

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5.5/10 with a solid mediocre
better than yesterday's 3.7*
sorry that we missed ya griff

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08 Jan 2018 16:07 #230668 by Griff

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Always brother, always!
Even was in P1 was this weekend ???

Here is a mediocre video of Christmas 2017:

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10 Jan 2018 16:42 #230689 by silaswild

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Afternoon at Alpental today yielded boot top fresh, minimal crusty spots, mostly softpack on piste. Nice to say goodbye to the icy conditions, hopefully for a long while now.

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10 Jan 2018 19:47 #230691 by flowing alpy

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sorry I missed you too:/)
visibility was good that's no excuse
but i did get to ski with Crispin today
so I had that going for me

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10 Jan 2018 22:32 #230694 by Griff

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Here is the video proof of Silas and Bobby's posts:

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11 Jan 2018 14:32 #230698 by silaswild

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Snowed 1"+ per hour all morning. Patrol opened the padded seats at 10! Thanks. Untracked lines all AM with slightly tough vis for old people. 16-20" fluffy fun. Mmm. Flow and pipe where were you guys?

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11 Jan 2018 20:02 #230704 by kamtron

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I was smoked from 10 hours of skiing yesterday!
Looks like it was good up there.
Hope it is at least okay tomorrow.

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11 Jan 2018 21:50 #230705 by pipedream

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I suppose I should comment as a hat trick of pass closures kept the Pugetopoloids at bay
Armstrong loaded at 9:45 followed by 2 w/o delay
Snowed hard all day and the wind howled away, but unlike other resorts in our region we had access to top-to-bottom terrain
Shot 6 was shuttered shortly after noon with l'Internationale following aoon after. A pair of power outages brought the padded seats to an early conclusion and the high avy danger combined with limited staff for the night shift meant the area closed at 4 for the day

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12 Jan 2018 08:20 #230707 by flowing alpy

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Mmm. Flow where were you?

I went swimming.

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12 Jan 2018 12:04 #230714 by pipedream

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I went swimming.

Was that before or after the donut(s) & coffee?

You were missed yesterday, but how I missed Silas is beyond me ??? Maybe because his Tercel was buried in all that snow by the time the storm relented enough to afford a modicum of visibility

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12 Jan 2018 16:27 #230718 by gscruggs

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I suppose I should comment as a hat trick of pass closures kept the Pugetopoloids at bay

Don't worry, we still made it. Just required patience. I wasn't there til almost noon and still found myself breaking trail for some of the skier's right lines on Edelweiss Bowl.

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12 Jan 2018 22:06 #230725 by Griff

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Yesterday was just another mediocre day

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13 Jan 2018 16:37 #230732 by flowing alpy

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THE first day of a long ski school season
wettish snow with dryish atmosphere
on piste skied like spring off summer
LoTs full of eager pampered youngsters

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14 Jan 2018 16:21 #230742 by flowing alpy

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the area filled up fast today with no parking management coordinator
the grooming, well there was an attempt but less than mediocre
clear skies overnight allowed the ruts and debris to solidly form firm
good times down Edelweiss required everyone to ski&board together

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14 Jan 2018 17:31 #230743 by Jim Oker

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Over at Central we heard tales of people who arrived at around noon driving around for an hour to find parking. But the skiing itself was mostly pretty fun spring like conditions. Some ice between moguls on 360 and parachute. Crossover to and from east isn't open yet.

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14 Jan 2018 21:40 #230751 by pipedream

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Crossover to and from east isn't open yet.

This has been the saving grace of East so far this mediocre season. Shuttle on over sometime, our slopes are riding fine!

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15 Jan 2018 05:57 #230753 by flowing alpy

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110 mph wind gust earlier this morning.

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18 Jan 2018 15:32 #230796 by silaswild

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Thanks to everyone who stayed home we had fresh tracks all morning in 5" new snow. Lotsa blue sky too. Graceful day!

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18 Jan 2018 18:07 #230800 by flowing alpy

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Nice skiing with you today! It Was Grace full:-)
Fun laps with Crispin early and nice chair chat.

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19 Jan 2018 15:36 #230815 by silaswild

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Nice grooming off chair 1 for an hour, then great flowing backcountry laps in soft 10-15" untracked fresh snow high, and boot top heavy fresh below 3600'. Thanks to patrol for setting a perfect high traverse to piss pass, and to Bobby for guide service.

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19 Jan 2018 19:53 #230827 by flowing alpy

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good stuff today after the padded seats got re-booted @10:00.
the lack of uphill traffic on the source lake dog park trail was nice.

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19 Jan 2018 21:15 #230833 by Griff

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Thanks to patrol for setting a perfect high traverse to piss pass, and to Bobby for guide service.

LOL ^^^^^^^ take a look at the credits and the "Thanks" at the end of this video:

vimeo.com/251914260

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20 Jan 2018 20:48 #230841 by flowing alpy

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37,000 of my closest friends and one asshole were here today.
the dumbstoopidmoran yelling at Voly Patrol before 1 opened
needs to have his teeth knocked into the back of his big mouth.
karma will hurt the jerk.
Otherwise it was a mediocre day, considering 18"new
and a great wedding.

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21 Jan 2018 21:12 #230852 by pipedream

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I took a day of leave from my Easterly duties to grace the padded seats
The lines for 1 & 2 were great reminders of why I only come over midweek
The snow out the gate made up for the line standing
A baker's half dozen of laps later and my whole body was beat
The road was "too icy" so we had to "suffer" in lot 4 until 430 when sanding was complete

All lots were full, the soup was pea (oh wait that was the visibility) and the day was overall mediocre in quality. But I did get to share a padded seat w/ FreeBird, which was neat

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23 Jan 2018 15:37 #230878 by flowing alpy

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skied well

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23 Jan 2018 16:05 #230879 by haggis

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Likely one of the more understated reports on the padded seats yearly conditions thread!

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23 Jan 2018 20:25 #230882 by pipedream

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I was too beat to stick around and night ski.
A foot has fallen at pass level since this morning.
Elevator opened at 11:15, the powder techs stayed in the city.
Tomorrow might be good, tomorrow might suck
You'll only find out by going

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