Snow Watch 07/08

Everybody been enjoying the pow.... Some good stuff going on in the cascades. Laps around stevens have been sick.
 
alpental was pretty nice yesterday, i havent really skied it much before, but chair 2 opened up, so some of those first couple of tracks were sick as hell. it was kinda funny though seeing those people gettin stuck all the way down tho. hahaha i swear i saw some guy hiking out underneath of chair 2 for like an hour and a half.
 
I forgot how heavy alpental snow is, and how bumpy it is. Shit. would it be possible for people to ski in a stright line? not at alpental. Oh and supposably dan treadway was there today.

And snoqualmies jumps are actualy nice.
 
This weekend is looking good. Sunday morning and Monday morning should be really good powder days.

Enjoy

National Weather Service Forecast - West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes

Winter Storm Warning for West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes

REST OF TONIGHT

SNOW SHOWERS. NEW SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 1500 FEET. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 10 TO 15 MPH.

SATURDAY

SNOW SHOWERS...THEN SNOW DEVELOPING LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 OR 2 INCHES LATE. SNOW LEVEL 1500 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S TO MID 30S. WIND IN THE PASSES LIGHT.

SATURDAY NIGHT

SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES. SNOW ACCUMULATION NEAR 1 FOOT. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. WIND IN THE PASSES WEST AT 15 TO 35 MPH.

SUNDAY

SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATION NEAR 1 FOOT POSSIBLE. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE 20S. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 25 TO 35 MPH EASING TO 10 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

SUNDAY NIGHT

MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 15 TO 20 MPH.

MONDAY

MOSTLY SUNNY. FREEZING LEVEL RISING TO 2500 FEET.

 
^ looking good

Can anyone give me a ride to snoqualmie/alpetnal tommorrow!!!??? my ride ditched out and i want to go skiing
 
I just got back from Snoqualmie, where the roads became a show off competition of who's the worst driver in the state. Unreal what I saw driving up there today, a guy unable to slow down his Jeep Liberty without sliding all over the off-ramp. Almost got hit about 3 times on the drive back home. Anyways, on to the good news, just checked the forecast for the remainder of the weekend...looking well, good.

National Weather Service Forecast - West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes

Winter Storm Warning for West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes

TONIGHT

SNOW. BECOMING BREEZY. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 4 TO 12 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. LIGHT WIND IN THE PASSES INCREASING TO WEST 20 TO 25 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SUNDAY

SHOWERS...BREEZY. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 15 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 500 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE 20S. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 15 TO 25 MPH DECREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

SUNDAY NIGHT

SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS DECREASING. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION 12 TO 30 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL BELOW 500 FEET. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 10 TO 15 MPH.

 
HEllo, Once again I need a ride to the snoqualmie tomorrow, i will help pay for gas,

Please reply, or PM me, I hate to no ski during winter break

Thank you!
 
You will love it there man. I just got home from my trip there and it took us 9 hours to get there with horrible conditions and damn Canadian drivers suck ass and are stupid as fuck. Saw a guy passing people in shoulder in a blizzard and he tried to pass a cop too. Cop turns on lights to stop him, what does he do? Passes him anyways and gets pulled over.

But they got some amazingly light snow there and a decent park.
 
you fucks better stop complaining about driving conditions, try 15 hours Whistler-Seattle, leaving the best storm in whistler in a long ass time, with a broken leg. yeah I am fucking bitter.
 
that sucks man. ya, i would be pretty bitter too. and i know this sounds retarded, but i want it to stop snowing already, cause i want to get in a couple of blue bird days this season too! how am i supposed to film if its always snowing all the time!
 
So, tomorrow. I know I'm going up to enjoy the three feet of fresh from today and tonights accumulation under cloudy and then clear sky. I'd love to save on gas, so anyone wanna carpool? We can use my car, but as I dont have ski racks, it can only fit 3, 4 at most.
 
Traffic looks shitty on Stevens right now.... Avy control on the westside, Maybe Ol faithful slid. Screw weekends and the warrior's that ski em.
 
Fuck... Bluebird pow and I'm not skiing. I almost got written up last week at work so I didn't like my chances calling in. Hiking tomorrow if everything pans out. Happy mofo newYEAR.
 
Seriously, fuck today. Chest deep snow down the backside, shit got all up in my face and crap, I couldn't see in some spots and that was dangerous. Also, fuck skiing untracked trees in the same amount of snow. Fuck the blue skies, made everything too fucking pretty, and fuck Grant and peeps hiking from Tye. Jesus Grant, you had to gay it up with that switch 5 off the cliff, didnt you? Fuck this deep snow shit, seriously.
 
Man I was loving the backside too. Cept when I ate shit off a cliff and had to dig for skis and attempt to put them on in chest deep snow. I also ate shit real bad when i jumped off a mugul into a real steep terrain and hit an unseen lip at full speet, flew 30 feet inverted and barely avoided slamming into a giant log protruding across the terrain. My buddies said they thought I was gonna die but instead I landed in a tree well and thanked god that I was alive.

All in all though, PHENOMENAL day.
 
You guys bootpack roostercomb or cowboy for me tomorrow? I still havn't heard off hours of operation though.

Happy New Years
 
3 days of skiing the deepest, lightest snow i can remember in this state... and i got paid for two of em. beat that schuckas. oh yeah, pontoons go really fast.
 
hahahahahahahahaa

you made me pee a little when you said baker's pow was dry yesterday.

next week looks good my friend.
 
Parking lots are full every weekend now by 11:00 at stevens. I just have to state this again fuck weekends the weekdays is were it's at.
 
they were making people park in the god damn xc skiing lot 5 miles down the road today. so fuckin busy. weekends suck nuts
 
at Stevens backside whats the ridge called thats skiers right above Gemini? it goes from the powerline crossing away from Hollywood Bowl and eventually picks up a trail heading back to Jupiter/So.Cross lifts?
 
On a POW note this sounds good:

...A STRONG PACIFIC FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL BRING HEAVY SNOW TO

PORTIONS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON...

.SNOW WILL FALL TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY IN SOME PARTS OF THE

LOWLANDS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON...ESPECIALLY THE SOUTH PART OF THE

HOOD CANAL AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF THE OLYMPICS. HEAVY

SNOW WILL FALL AT TIMES IN THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL THROUGH TUESDAY

NIGHT. SNOWFALL WILL RANGE FROM LESS THAN AN INCH AT THE LOWEST

ELEVATIONS...TO 5 INCHES IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE OLYMPICS NEAR

HOOD CANAL...WITH A FOOT OR TWO IN THE MOUNTAINS FROM THIS STORM

THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

 
NOAA's Stevens Pass forecast (lazy read only bold)

Tonight: Periods of snow, mainly after 10pm. Low around 19.

Breezy, with a south southeast wind 7 to 10 mph increasing to between

19 and 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation

of 6 to 10 inches possible.

Tuesday: Periods of snow.

High near 30. Southeast wind 9 to 16 mph becoming west southwest.

Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13

inches possible.
 
So ready for this weekend. Prolly gonna miss Sat tho since the Hawks are in the playoffs yknow. I got some brand new Head Mojo 90 186s that should be here anyday and cannot wait to tear it up on those this weekend. It was interesting rockin a pair of 172cm urban triplets down at Hood this past weekend in 2 feet of powder.

On a side note the GF decides she wants to go up with me and my friends this weekend... I told her to bring a friend so I can do my own thing with these conditions and my new skis that I gotta put to the test haha
 
Hmmm...snow accumulation could be pretty decent...is anyone going up Wednesday around 10:45-11ish? I'll chip in gas money!!
 
For some mysterious reason, Sunday wasn't half bad.

There was a window for a couple of hours where the light was excellent, and the park was empty, and the jumps were delicious.

After lunch that all changed, but the point being the best park of the day was not spoiled in the slightest.

But the west lots were full before 10am, so that's a bit ominous.

 
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