Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Bishop, CA
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:
Hello all, sounds like Tahoe got the real goods, but we got a little on the Eastside. Here's another resource for High Sierra Conditions. It's even got recent pictures and sometimes video. It's not updated all the time, but for folks clicking around after Eastside conditions, it might be helpful.
Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 6709 Location: Berkeley, CA /Tahoe
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:
DoctaPow wrote:
while sugar bowl on saturday was unexpectedly good - an real 6' of new in most places ...
i can honestly say that the crust and wind-board encountered near Castle Peak on Sunday was easily the worst snow conditions we have skied all winter
I had a blast over at Echo Summit, poking around in the trees on the ridge east-ish of Becker Peak. Not all turns were great, but I did find a couple pockets of really nice skiing.
Me and the Missus want to go out this week for some BC turns.
After Fri/Sat snow the Sunday wind seemed to hammer alot of the NE facing stuff. ie. At sugarbowl on sunday all the west facing stuff had powder, Judah ridge was great. But now it is warm and everything SW is getting sun.
Any thoughts on a good Truckee area tour?
Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1580 Location: South Lake Tahoe
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:12 am Post subject:
Did two laps on trimmer, a little bit of powder, sun crust, wind crust, and chowder. That was on a north aspect. Only thing I didn't notice was breakable crust.
Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 6709 Location: Berkeley, CA /Tahoe
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:19 am Post subject:
ipiston wrote:
Me and the Missus want to go out this week for some BC turns.
After Fri/Sat snow the Sunday wind seemed to hammer alot of the NE facing stuff. ie. At sugarbowl on sunday all the west facing stuff had powder, Judah ridge was great. But now it is warm and everything SW is getting sun.
Any thoughts on a good Truckee area tour?
Thanks
-Ian
North Facing trees as high as possible, or really south and low to get the corn cycle. Or just take skinny skis and ski the crust.
high elevation, north-facing trees. i think everything else got nuked by the warmth today. maybe something in the silver peak area? mt. rose - bronco chutes?
Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 528 Location: Meyers, CA
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:59 am Post subject:
Thanks for the link Jed. I'll be checking back to the site for Eastside conditions (beyond Mammoth and June). I didn't know you were a guide. Tough duty. _________________ Viva La Nina
Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1580 Location: South Lake Tahoe
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:
tahoed wrote:
high elevation, north-facing trees. i think everything else got nuked by the warmth today. maybe something in the silver peak area? mt. rose - bronco chutes?
On Trimmer we were in N facing trees at around 9000 feet. Whatever wasn't burnt by the sun was nuked by the wind.
What are the runs around here that have higher elveation N facing trees? Powderhouse goes up to around 9300 feet, and Tallac's trees on Corkscrew start at about the same.
Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 12807 Location: Ponderosa
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:
Me and MJG and a dog or two planning on heading into Desolation via Echo Lakes for two nights starting fri March 28...anybody interested in joining, shoot me a pm. _________________ embrace your inner maya
Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 6709 Location: Berkeley, CA /Tahoe
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:
harpo-the-skier wrote:
tahoed wrote:
high elevation, north-facing trees. i think everything else got nuked by the warmth today. maybe something in the silver peak area? mt. rose - bronco chutes?
On Trimmer we were in N facing trees at around 9000 feet. Whatever wasn't burnt by the sun was nuked by the wind.
What are the runs around here that have higher elveation N facing trees? Powderhouse goes up to around 9300 feet, and Tallac's trees on Corkscrew start at about the same.
I don't think there are any trees higher than that, but you have to start looking at other things, shelter from the wind and steepness. With Sunday's wind Trimmer is out there and exposed, ideally you'd like north facing trees with something blocking the wind from the North, not North facing trees with 30 miles of
flat lake in the fetch.
Even then,you aren't going to get any more than a pocket of turns
and sometimes you just have to get lucky...
_ Booker C. Bense
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Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1535 Location: Washoe Valley, Nevada
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject:
We were out in the Mt. Rose Wilderness Sun and it was the classic NE wind that follows most of the fronts we have had in the past two seasons. Not really nuking wind but a pesky 20-30 and it was definitely redepositing the snow to the W SW side of the ridges. We first skied the redeposit and it was way heavy and not much fun to ski so we went over to the N side and first lap was pretty good on turnable lightish snow with some wind effect snow at the top of the ridge but the snow got fat and heavy as we got down to around 8,500 so the lap was short, next lap we moved over a couple of hundred yards and the snow more wind effected and semi difficult to ski. So, one decent lap out of three and a long approach and runout back to the trailhead. Pretty good day however, slopes untracked, no traffic and cool enough to have to wear a jacket on the uptrack. Anyway, where to ski in the short term? 1. Might be a front wed/thurs and some fresh precipt. 2. Tree ski North facing slopes from 9,500-8,500. Some ideas around Mt. Rose would be Northside of Mt. Rose proper, ridge to Galena Creek canyon, North side of Incline Peak. I think you could find turns at these places but the decents would be well under 1,000 vert. Not sure if we will be out unless the front materializes. _________________ Just Say No To Groomed Snow
Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Polk Gulch, San Francisco, CA
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:47 am Post subject: Sleeper weekend at Bradley Hut
This past weekend sure was a sleeper. As the Thursday weather reports predicted rain up to 8,000' followed by wet snow, my inbox started filling up with messages titled "Bail!" and "Have you seen the weather???" from my Bradley Hut companions to be. I Alt+Tabbed back to MS Query Analyzer and wondered if I should just come into work instead of taking my planned Friday off. It looked like it would be that, or another solitary day in the apartment mining belly button lint.
Happily, my newly discovered tele-conspirator Alex Goldenberg was not so quick to give up hope. After a night of polling Tahoe residents and watching the radar images, Alex resuscitated the weekend with the offer of a car and an place to stay. Realizing that we were going to need someone to break trail for us, I promptly rang up Rain Sussman and this little skeleton crew charged up 80 at 9pm Friday evening.
The charge, sadly, got hopelessly snarled at Gold Run around 11pm. We ran the battery dry on Alex's Blackberry waiting for Google maps to refresh as we frantically tried alternate routes which devolved into dirt roads and forbidding "No Dumping" signs. Finally at Dutch Flat, Ridge Rd to Alta Bonnynook allowed us to circumvent the cluster, but it was still 2:30 am by the time we were hitting the sack.
We awoke to Squaw Valley small arms fire and a sunny morning on Saturday. But by the time we drove to Pole Creek trailhead it was dumping again.
The sun and snow fought it out all day as we broke trail up the fire road.
We arrived at the hut just in time to exchange a few words with a crew of 6 guys all sporting enormous...grins. Apparently they'd been enjoying some stellar conditions. We asked what they'd observed in terms of stability, and they announced with confidence that the snow pack was rock solid. Regardless of this, we tempered our quivering quads and did a quick shovel shear.
Two rain layers presented themselves clearly with round ice crystals on the sheared surface. This test was on a convex east-facing slope about 10 min from the hut. We decided to play it safe and stay on the shallow aspects. We were not disappointed:
Alex
Rain
Brian
Alex
This was my first trip to Bradley, and now I see why it's so popular. What a beautiful place. You've got to walk outside to the outhouse, but aside from that, Bradley is a palace compared to Pear Lake. Sure is roomy when you just have 3 people in it!
Post dinner Hot Toddies
Sunday we headed to what I think I've heard referred to as Table Top.
Our predecessors had put some beautiful turns up there. By the time we got to the ridge some moderate winds had picked up.
We hung a right to the slopes just north of there. Did a compression test to see how things were progressing. This test was on an east-facing 27 degree slope. It scored a 15 with a ragged fracture roughly 8 inches down. Feeling more confident we set out to farm the amazingly well-preserved goods.
Rain
Alex and Rain
Brian
Rain
Rain making sure there is no snow left for the Alex
Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2102 Location: N. Lake Tahoe
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:
OOh Yeah! Another solid TR from Bradley. Never disappoints. Great TR! What fun. _________________ Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.
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