Schweitzer opens tomorrow!

best news i've heard today

website says basin express will be open - any idea how many runs/any park at all yet?
 
They'll have like 5 runs open (u can ski any were u can get to but beware of brush traps..seriously though its so fucking ahrd to get out of them) and usuly they have a couple rails set up in the park just depends on how lazy the park crew is...
 
I have a schweitzer related question. Does anyone know if you can spend the night in the schweitzer parking lot (in your car). I know there is some free parking but the drive is 3 hours from pullman so ide like to drive up friday after classes, stay the night, ski all saturday, spend the night, ski sunday drive home. I dont have the cash to pay for a hotel room.
 
Don't know about the resort but I'm sure a parking lot in Sandpoint would work. Also motels in Sandpoint are really cheap although I usually day trips - I'm in Pullman too.
 
snow on saturday was pretty good. not bad coverage for early december either. and the outback bowl is supposedly opening next weekend. sadly no snow in the forecast for a while.

stiles? still figuring schweitzer out - care to share?
 
i was up there as well. twas pretty ok

stiles is that bowl you see to the right of ridge run looking up from the village. to get there you would take the great escape up and go left until you reach the saddle of the ridge and you'll see the sign
 
gotcha - turns out I have always been lousy at reading trail names while skiing.

anybody here ever hike big blue(?) at the sidecountry exit off the tbar. Sounds like a pretty common trek with easy to follow tracks/path during weekends. Any other info on it, average time, how to make sure I finish at the resort not down the mountain? Also would I even need my skins or is it primarily a bootpack?

Thanks - this is the first year I've had a season pass up here so I won't feel like I wasted money if I only ride the lift a couple times during the day. Finally will get to explore some of the sidecountry.
 
i hike blue every year
the selkirk pow company's cat pretty much grooms a trail up so you can usually hike no prob. takes about an hour. and once your run gets down into the trees and start traversing like a mother fucker. but other ppl have usually done it before you so follow their tracks as long as they are going right.
check your avy conditions cause you can never be too sure.
 
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