John Gilmour Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 Rain for 20 minutes changed to snow..whew.... No work tomorrow...pow day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 Hmmm... Let's check it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 http://www.snowforecast.com/coloradofcst/aspen.html 5-8 at base 8-14 above 9000 feet. Muwaaaahhhahahahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gossamer Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 Powder Mountain Utah, here's your snow. http://powdermountain.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike T Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 8 feet of new snow in the past week. Based depths are within 10% of average now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 So much snow.... the Avalanche crews delayed the opening of the AJAX until 9:40 (typically first tracks start at 8:00 am so they were nearly 2 hours behind schedule). The gondola line stretched at one point... out of the Plaza- down the street past the Little Nell- across that Street and up to City market. Which was perfect because- A. I arrived at 9:30 late B. The long line scared off everyone..and people went to the other three mountains. It was epic and empty. C.The mountain was socked in the clouds until 10:00 am anyhow- sun came out at 10:10 am D. With the long line...no one at the head of the line dared come all the way down to the bottom to get stuck on the line they THOUGHT was there...but in fact went away completely. Leaving the entire bottom of the Mountain to the few who knew there was no gondola line..leaving everyone else stuck at the top using only 600 vertical feet for fear of a line at the bottom. The other 3 mountains likely opened on time leaving people to track out snow in dense fog... poor guys. E. All of the above. All of the above... I had some of the best bluebird powder runs today...because no one was daring to go to Jackpot or Bingo Glades... for fear of getting stuck at the bottom.By the time the crowds figured it out..I had my fill. This snow will make a great base because the first 2 inches that fell were wet from rain and snow mix- packing nicely to cover rocks... and then about 14 inches on top of that. I hit a few drifts that were waist deep on the run next to Walsh's run.. The south faces were best. I'd say SES Aspen will be good after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Caught the tail end of the perfect groom day....wasting time on the job learning silly photo packages. Amazing conditions even at 1:30 .".uber long layouts on Ruthies keeping the lifties entertained..trying to get some carving converts. Rode up the gondola with Chris Klug who wants to see new Madds again chatting about Anton Pogue on the 158. Klugs working for Southerbys selling real estate - tonight he speaks at Aspens Wheeler opera house giving a talk with Jeff Grell "pioneers of shred" history of snowboarding. So all excited to break out a MADD on my day off...I call Buttermilk to make sure the hardboots are in stock- dig out my 158's... And awake...to 4 inches of powder and flat light. Ajax and Highlands are buried in snow clouds. Snow nymph in da house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 tonight he speaks at Aspens Wheeler opera house giving a talk with Jeff Grell "pioneers of shred" history of snowboarding. Did you get invited? That should be really good to hear Jeff Grell speak of the early developement. Hope they video tape it? Very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogokoenig Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 So much snow.... the Avalanche crews delayed the opening of the AJAX until 9:40 ... I'd say SES Aspen will be good after all. Me like! My prayers have been heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Me like! My prayers have been heard. Yup! Ajax is very good now! Ruthies all the way down to A1 lift prime ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 So all excited to break out a MADD on my day off...I call Buttermilk to make sure the hardboots are in stock- dig out my 158's JG- I wouldn't mind a 158 but I'm loving your old 180. Might have been the conditions, but it was sooo surefooted. I think it like to be ridden further toward the nose like the 158 so I may move the front foot forward. You get visiting rights at ECES. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Fantastic grip and cushioning right now ...and we get more snow tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gilmour Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Perfect timing for a storm for SES! I can not even see the mountains from my window. Just whiteness. My legs feel toasted every day out here until I get 40-50 days. There is that much good groom to be had. There is so much snow I have to swap from my Rossigonol Judge Powder board to my Salomon 160 Sick stick...because it is pointless to even try to carve for 3 days until it gets packed. Sarah Palin says she can see Russia from her window, I can see Ruthies from mine- but not today. It's 7:30 am and I am watching the groomers just coming down off the bottom Ajax now (the only section with visibility) ... must have been a long night... "JG- I wouldn't mind a 158 but I'm loving your old 180. Might have been the conditions, but it was sooo surefooted. I think it like to be ridden further toward the nose like the 158 so I may move the front foot forward. You get visiting rights at ECES. " ... ah carbon fiber kids coming home for the holidays... as we used to say in the 1990's move forward..the rear holes are for girl racers. --oddly my post count appears frozen in time. 996 and I don't care for 911's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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