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loomis

loomis

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December 5th! Let's hope it's a solid year. There better be a lot of snowfall to make up the absence of Aunt Bees...
 
No more Aunt B's? Where are all the freestyle kids going to get their lunch, I mean sugar fix, this year?

For anyone wondering, I went skinning the past few days. Russ St is fairly thin lower down so expect some rocks. However, the backside is skiing great (especially the non-trackpacked areas over on Flower), and I'd highly recommend taking North Bowl down from the summit house to the bike trail beneath.
 
13557802:Literature said:
No more Aunt B's? Where are all the freestyle kids going to get their lunch, I mean sugar fix, this year?.
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13558023:The-Rodent said:
No more aunt bees???? :''''(
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Seriously.. I walked by there, and it was completely cleared out. So either they are gone, upgrading their current building, or moving locations.

@literature did you have to hike up a ways before skinning? It seems as if that's the only option, according to the webcams.
 
13559904:loomis said:
Seriously.. I walked by there, and it was completely cleared out. So either they are gone, upgrading their current building, or moving locations.

NOOOOO!!! Say it isn't so!! Aunt Bs was one my favorite locally owned business up there. Heart broken!!
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Besides being devastated over Aunt B's closing, myself and a few other ladies will be in Whitefish from January 5th until the 15th hitting urban. If anyone wants to join in on the fun pm me!
 
13559904:loomis said:
Seriously.. I walked by there, and it was completely cleared out. So either they are gone, upgrading their current building, or moving locations.

@literature did you have to hike up a ways before skinning? It seems as if that's the only option, according to the webcams.
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You can skin right out of the base area. Until the hill opens, you're supposed to head up the East Route between 8am-4pm.

Still a pile of rocks on Russ Street. They did a ton of grooming on the backside, and the winds from last week did all kinds of crazy things to the snowpack. They'll be good to go for this weekend, but it'll be pretty thin.

Get snow dancing, people.
 
Well, today was the day. I now know the location of every single little tree on goat haunt and whitetail. Minimal snow on the runs, and down-loading on chair 1 made for an interesting first day. But I'm glad to be back at it!
 
Taking the cat track to the lower flower point area is definitely the best spot. Lots of fun little jibs and stuff, plus the snow is pretty good over there too
 
13563838:Literature said:
You can skin right out of the base area. Until the hill opens, you're supposed to head up the East Route between 8am-4pm.

Still a pile of rocks on Russ Street. They did a ton of grooming on the backside, and the winds from last week did all kinds of crazy things to the snowpack. They'll be good to go for this weekend, but it'll be pretty thin.

Get snow dancing, people.
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Whats the BC snowpack looking like around Whitefish this new snow has me tempted for this weekend I'm assuming you've been out and about
 
13576605:The-Rodent said:
Whats the BC snowpack looking like around Whitefish this new snow has me tempted for this weekend I'm assuming you've been out and about
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Pretty fucked, to put it concisely.

We dug two pits on Ghoulie today, and the E side was less sensitive overall, but the rain crust on the N side was spitting out shooting cracks and failing easily in our tests (CT1 Q2, ECTP2 Q1). The bond between the old storm snow below the rain crust also failed with relative ease. Shit sandwich material all over.

It was easily 1.5" an hour out there, but the rain crusts will be a pretty epic bed surface for all this new loading. Sigh. Inbounds will probably be the jam through the weekend.

I might make it out for some walking this weekend, but it'll definitely be on the flatter angles in the Kona/Spruce Knob area (ridge tops south of Ghoulie) or maybe the skin track flats en route to Skook Ridge.
 
13576667:Literature said:
Pretty fucked, to put it concisely.

We dug two pits on Ghoulie today, and the E side was less sensitive overall, but the rain crust on the N side was spitting out shooting cracks and failing easily in our tests (CT1 Q2, ECTP2 Q1). The bond between the old storm snow below the rain crust also failed with relative ease. Shit sandwich material all over.

It was easily 1.5" an hour out there, but the rain crusts will be a pretty epic bed surface for all this new loading. Sigh. Inbounds will probably be the jam through the weekend.

I might make it out for some walking this weekend, but it'll definitely be on the flatter angles in the Kona/Spruce Knob area (ridge tops south of Ghoulie) or maybe the skin track flats en route to Skook Ridge.
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(sigh) thats what I was expecting unfortunately.

Where is skook ridge at?
 
13576695:The-Rodent said:
(sigh) thats what I was expecting unfortunately.

Where is skook ridge at?
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It's Skookoleel Ridge, above Skook Face, above Skoot Chutes or the Seven Sisters that lurk over Canyon Creek. Skin track starts at the top of Fiberglass Hill, wanders up from there, and the low angle meadow skipping along the skin track above where you turn S to head over above the chutes is relatively protected, mellow, and low angle.
 
13576707:Literature said:
It's Skookoleel Ridge, above Skook Face, above Skoot Chutes or the Seven Sisters that lurk over Canyon Creek. Skin track starts at the top of Fiberglass Hill, wanders up from there, and the low angle meadow skipping along the skin track above where you turn S to head over above the chutes is relatively protected, mellow, and low angle.
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Sounds like a good option

Really urking to get out there for the first time but definitely don't wanna get myself into any trouble though

Im sure me and some other guys on here would appreciate hearing your observations around whitefish aside from the public observation which I'm assuming was you on the flathead avalanche center
 
13576718:The-Rodent said:
Sounds like a good option

Really urking to get out there for the first time but definitely don't wanna get myself into any trouble though

Im sure me and some other guys on here would appreciate hearing your observations around whitefish aside from the public observation which I'm assuming was you on the flathead avalanche center
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Yeah, that was me. Stupid glove photo is hilarious sideways. And the lack of paragraphing in the text makes it almost unreadable with all the shorthand and pit codes.

I'll try to keep things current when I'm here this winter. Won't be much, but maybe we can get an NS touring day going.
 
How are things looking out there? I'm going to be out that way from Jan 30 to Feb 5. It's been a bunch of years since I was out that way, but remember it being a pretty decent time.
 
Holy crap. Thanks for one of the best weeks of skiing I've ever had last week. A bit of new snow every day with a couple of solid dumps as well.

You're all right, Whitefish. You're all right.
 
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