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steeleman
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| nicely. red slate looks fricken rad too. gotta get that one someday... |
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Eric O
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| I'd be stoked to go with ya. See if you can sneak away approximately 2 days after an 8 to 12" storm, plus or minus. I'm usually free tuesday/wednesday. Everyone shies away from doing it in a day, but 8 of the 10 people I know who've done it, did it in a day. |
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leo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:06 am Post subject: |
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nice line one of the few lines I've seen here where I say to myself Leo you are missing a great line. Go get that splitter on the back peak in the second and fourth photos. Would like to see what that looks like. Have fun. More photos like this and maybe trip to CA is in my future.
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wow
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, me too.
Beautifully done Eric and thanks for the pics, Julian.
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aqua_toque
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Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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I still have the film you guys made of that one on the hard drive (it's a classic!). It looks like the snow was a tad lighter and drier this time.  |
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steeleman
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| leo wrote: | | nice line one of the few lines I've seen here where I say to myself Leo you are missing a great line. Go get that splitter on the back peak in the second and fourth photos. Would like to see what that looks like. Have fun. More photos like this and maybe trip to CA is in my future. |
that splitter in the background is another one that julian and eric got last year. dogs!!! |
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Eric O
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| wow wrote: | Yeah, me too.
Beautifully done Eric and thanks for the pics, Julian. |
Dear Wizard Of the Wasatch,
I was specifically thinking of your long lines of perfect turns as I skied it almost w/o stopping on Tuesday. I was thinking of you again on Wednesday because it was so good that it was worth climbing 4300 feet to get it a second time in the same snow. Still a small day though by some of you Wasatch wonders' standards! |
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bcrider
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Epic guys!
Twice in one day eric? You animal!
Thanks for the stoke. 
*note to self: make the drive to ski lines like this with eric more this winter. |
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Eric O
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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No no! Twice in two days. Once per day. Solo on Tuesday then with Julian on Wednesday. It's still early season!
The solo day I dug a huuuuge pit and tested a lot, and still made at least a dozen hard ski cuts trying to get any action out of the layers during the first 200 feet. You can see that in some of J's pics higher in the chute -- you can see where the previous day's tracks are big straight Z's across the full width. I couldn't make anything slide even at rollovers, so eventually just let'er rip. |
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jw
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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eric you just answered the questions I was going to ask you. cool....
The picture where you are bending over "picking up a battery" made me tense up a little. 'yo, dude' now that's an honest to goodness chute!!!! 
Nice written TR last week by the way.
Keep em coming |
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joesnow
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Right on Guys! Thanks for taking the pictures and reporting on some serious east side stoke! That line looks absolutely incredible. Count me in w/ steeleman on the Red Slate trip. I've covetted that one since Eric and Julian's TR a couple of years back, and then I saw it from the top of Bloody last Spring - 
By the way, Eric - What are the dimensions of those skis you were riding? One of those pics looks to show a GIANT tip breaching out of the snow - almost looks like a friggin humpback whale! |
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Eric O
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| jw wrote: | | The picture where you are bending over "picking up a battery" made me tense up a little. 'yo, dude' now that's an honest to goodness chute!!!! |
I really was picking up a battery. I was taking pics of Julian skiing the chute too -- I think I got some good ones, they'll have to wait 'til next week when I get a new memory card reader before I can post them. And the camera popped open again and lost a battery. Fortunately it only burrowed a few inches into the snow and I found it.
joesnow: 135-106-122. Cheater skis for sure, but lots of fun. About Red Slate, are you ready for those don't-look-down sections? You should come with! |
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Julian
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
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Location: San Francisco, CA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| steeleman wrote: | | leo wrote: | | nice line one of the few lines I've seen here where I say to myself Leo you are missing a great line. Go get that splitter on the back peak in the second and fourth photos. Would like to see what that looks like. Have fun. More photos like this and maybe trip to CA is in my future. |
that splitter in the background is another one that julian and eric got last year. dogs!!! |
Since you asked...the chute that made me quit my job:
eric and steeleman, give me a shout if you make plans to head up there. i still need to ski the last several hundred feet from the summit to the top of the couloir. i'm down with doing it in a day, although the door-to-door time required for a sea level dweller such as myself will probably end up being about the same since i'll need to spend a couple days acclimatizing and warming up around tahoe or mammoth anyway.
thanks for all the nice words regarding the previous photos. i would have corrected the white balance and the brightness a bit if i had more time. i was contending with frozen batteries, frozen fingers and unhelpful camera presets so i mostly just set the camera to rapid fire mode and pointed it in eric's general direction. i'm glad you guys enjoyed them anyway. |
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joesnow
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Location: Meyers, CA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Eric O wrote: |
joesnow: 135-106-122. Cheater skis for sure, but lots of fun. About Red Slate, are you ready for those don't-look-down sections? You should come with! |
Those pics (and descriptions) of the "don't-look-down" zones is what I dreamt of during the summer months following you're outrageous TR. The couloir must be incredibly sweet after traversing across those mentally challenging and "bottomless" chutes.
My problem (well it's not actually a problem at all) is that my wife is preg-o and due in 5 weeks. That keeps Joe's leash short and tethered to South Lake Tahoe.....until Spring.
Thanks for re-posting some of those pics, Julian. Unbelievable. |
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ryanskibum
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Location: newly PDX (from Bozone, MT)
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| great photos, wish I was there |
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