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Thanks for the tip. Itl be I nice change from the heavy pnw snow. Hoping to ski m,w,f during a stormy week. Looks like 84 goes from i90 straight to slc too.
TnskiThanks for the tip. Itl be I nice change from the heavy pnw snow. Hoping to ski m,w,f during a stormy week. Looks like 84 goes from i90 straight to slc too.
Yeah try to only ski weekdays when you're here, cause the ikon pass will only get more and more people as park city gets worse, and one of the 4 mtns within the two canyons is dropping off from ikon I think. I can gladly show you around those areas time depending for work/storms, but days away from Brighton I suggest the bird or alta, they're literally just over the backside of Brighton but the difference in terrain is nuts.
Dont have an icon pass and skiing on weekends is against my religion thankfully but probably should ski alta/snowbird one day since I'll be there. I dont know if its true but I thought I read somewhere alta is skis only no sniwboarders?
TnskiDont have an icon pass and skiing on weekends is against my religion thankfully but probably should ski alta/snowbird one day since I'll be there. I dont know if its true but I thought I read somewhere alta is skis only no sniwboarders?
Lol what religion is that? But weekends can vary just depends when schools have breaks around the country, mainly park city and snowbird get clogged I believe, and yes alta is skiers only, but theres a connection or two that can take you from snowbird (where boarders are allowed) and they'll ride down the edge of alta to a bus stop back to the bird, and vice versa you can ski a dank glade run from alta to the bird.
DeebieSkeebiesCome on out. Despite all the stuff we bitched about this year, I can safely say I had some real memorable days this season and it was an honor being out there during on of the best winters I can recall. So much pow. This will be the first winter in my life since I was probably 16 that I haven't worked a resort job or at a resort during the winter and Im actually looking forward to it., Huge emphasis on studies though. I wouldn't mind if its a good year again or if its a bad year but I plan to be studying and skiing my ass off once im done with rehab
Titus69It's not as big as snowbird but it's just a fun place and has great vibes, the park isnt insane but its just a ton of fun rails and tubes to hot lap. On a pow day most people ski off the Crest and Millie lifts which provide and you just gotta know where to go and go early (crowds dont get too bad never went on a weekend though) but skiing out of the gate on the great western lift you can pretty much find fresh lines open to close, (people are scared cause it's a "BC zone" I spend 99% of my 10-12 pow days on it. Offers a decent bowl with a sometimes sketchy and avy prone backside, but go along the ridge between that and the bowl and through the woods and you'll find a hidden gem of probably 2-3k foot wide zone of open aspens that are low angle and stupid fun. Even my epic April storm days at alta didnt provide the nonstop smile that lift did for me, fuck this is making me wanna go back, idk if itll upload but heres a taste of GW.
OregonDeadHell yeah! Feet of pow sounds awesome. I am down for some BC laps too!
Yeah altas website has the whole data for snowfall per week there and the stats are nuts, like half the season they got at least 5" a week. In the video is where it's super mellow "backcountry" stuff, aside that zone theres a peak to climb right out of the gate but it slides often and you have to boot pack uphill but dumps you right at the entry to this mellow zone. But its so easy to lap, I set the trail into the zones and the quick track to the lift like 6 times this year which was tiring but worth it. Get out here and well do some deep pow skiin.
BigPurpleSkiSuitSnowbird was a bit moist today. No idea how they plan to keep enough snow for 4th of July
Yeah I'm assuming they'll have to push in a bunch this week to keep it packed, I'm praying they can keep the run down from the wave open. This rain doesnt help either, either way I will be there the 4th nice n buzzin
We"re on track with my foot, but Im getting a 2nd surgery to get the pins out. No way in hell do I wanna be awake for that shit, I got the stitches taken out today and I almost fainted lol. Still cant feel anything in my toe though. It looks as meaty and gnarly as ever.
The doc kinda broke down the recovery process a bit better for me. Its gonna be a long haul with hurdles, I may not be able to get back to work this summer or back to sport for a while so my main focus is mindfulness. Today was good but kinda bummed me out too.
DeebieSkeebiesWe"re on track with my foot, but Im getting a 2nd surgery to get the pins out. No way in hell do I wanna be awake for that shit, I got the stitches taken out today and I almost fainted lol. Still cant feel anything in my toe though. It looks as meaty and gnarly as ever.
The doc kinda broke down the recovery process a bit better for me. Its gonna be a long haul with hurdles, I may not be able to get back to work this summer or back to sport for a while so my main focus is mindfulness. Today was good but kinda bummed me out too.
Damn dude that sounds very cringey too be awake for best of luck, but never bad to just do some self care for a while, when do you think skiing will be a thing you can do?
Yep its gonna be tough, big plus though is they didnt have to amputate your foot
DeebieSkeebiesWe"re on track with my foot, but Im getting a 2nd surgery to get the pins out. No way in hell do I wanna be awake for that shit, I got the stitches taken out today and I almost fainted lol. Still cant feel anything in my toe though. It looks as meaty and gnarly as ever.
The doc kinda broke down the recovery process a bit better for me. Its gonna be a long haul with hurdles, I may not be able to get back to work this summer or back to sport for a while so my main focus is mindfulness. Today was good but kinda bummed me out too.
DeebieSkeebiesWe"re on track with my foot, but Im getting a 2nd surgery to get the pins out. No way in hell do I wanna be awake for that shit, I got the stitches taken out today and I almost fainted lol. Still cant feel anything in my toe though. It looks as meaty and gnarly as ever.
The doc kinda broke down the recovery process a bit better for me. Its gonna be a long haul with hurdles, I may not be able to get back to work this summer or back to sport for a while so my main focus is mindfulness. Today was good but kinda bummed me out too.
Good to have some sort of timeline. My doc won’t give me anything yet. Vibes about having another surgery. I am lucky I got permanent hardware and no open wound. However long it is won’t be long in the whole scheme of things. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.
Titus69Damn dude that sounds very cringey too be awake for best of luck, but never bad to just do some self care for a while, when do you think skiing will be a thing you can do?
Skiing will be an adjustment but not out of the question which is great. It'll be interesting to see whats possible and whats gonna have to be toned down a little bit but even if I can't feel a good portion of my foot and its uncomfortable, I'll suck it up for a few hours just to get out there and slide around. I'm hopeful that we can get back to 100% but also accepting of the fact that we'll need to make some adjustments and maybe slow down a bit when it comes to activity which is fine. It's a small area of injury for the most part but damn it really fucked a lot of shit up permanently.
DeebieSkeebiesSkiing will be an adjustment but not out of the question which is great. It'll be interesting to see whats possible and whats gonna have to be toned down a little bit but even if I can't feel a good portion of my foot and its uncomfortable, I'll suck it up for a few hours just to get out there and slide around. I'm hopeful that we can get back to 100% but also accepting of the fact that we'll need to make some adjustments and maybe slow down a bit when it comes to activity which is fine. It's a small area of injury for the most part but damn it really fucked a lot of shit up permanently.
If you are doing the workers comp gig, you will get enough cash to go get you some custom fit boots to help with your toe.
oldmanskiIf you are doing the workers comp gig, you will get enough cash to go get you some custom fit boots to help with your toe.
What a blessing that is, and extremely appreciative of it. Very minimal expenses including my truck, school, and helping my parents out with their mortgage payments when they need so all of it is going straight into the bank and wont be touched till we need it
DeebieSkeebiesWhat a blessing that is, and extremely appreciative of it. Very minimal expenses including my truck, school, and helping my parents out with their mortgage payments when they need so all of it is going straight into the bank and wont be touched till we need it
Great to hear! Glad it is working out for the most part, sucks to go through the injury but at least they do help a little with cash.
If I remember correctly, they will pay you a certain percentage of your monthly wage and then when you return to work they will cut you a lump sum of what body part was injured. For instance, I cut the tendons on my right index and birdie finger and they cut me a check for almost $8k when I returned to work. Granted, how do you price a body part but they do have some sort of scale they base it off. Get healed up homie!
DeebieSkeebiesSkiing will be an adjustment but not out of the question which is great. It'll be interesting to see whats possible and whats gonna have to be toned down a little bit but even if I can't feel a good portion of my foot and its uncomfortable, I'll suck it up for a few hours just to get out there and slide around. I'm hopeful that we can get back to 100% but also accepting of the fact that we'll need to make some adjustments and maybe slow down a bit when it comes to activity which is fine. It's a small area of injury for the most part but damn it really fucked a lot of shit up permanently.
Yeah that's crazy a small injury has such an impact, it's just a shitty spot for athletic people, hope you'll eventually be able to get airborne and take landings without much pain, cause I imagine cold toes along with toe bang wont be too fun. Hope you're back skiing asap (when theres places to ski.)
Just hiked up pioneer peak at Brighton for some good ol chute skiin and damn that was a challenge, climbed the skiers west face of it and then up along the ride with still 3+ foot cornices and into a random skiable chute I found into the bowl of lumpy snow. Said sorry to my skis and did some candide-ing from patch to patch to the bottom of the lifts after the 2-3 hour hike. These bootpacks I've done recently have been mentally & physically challenging with some severe risks but getting to the top then skiing down is one insane feeling.
Dude, you do you, but I'd highly recommend going with a partner
Titus69Just hiked up pioneer peak at Brighton for some good ol chute skiin and damn that was a challenge, climbed the skiers west face of it and then up along the ride with still 3+ foot cornices and into a random skiable chute I found into the bowl of lumpy snow. Said sorry to my skis and did some candide-ing from patch to patch to the bottom of the lifts after the 2-3 hour hike. These bootpacks I've done recently have been mentally & physically challenging with some severe risks but getting to the top then skiing down is one insane feeling.
BigPurpleSkiSuitDude, you do you, but I'd highly recommend going with a partner
Yeah it's a weird thrill I go for, most of my friends are never able and usually not willing to go at this point, I also always let my friends know where I'm at when I do it. After my summer solstice scare in a different zone I learned to do a lot better with scoping the hike and line. This one may look worse but compared to the previous zone it was a lot safer, no rock exposure in the bowl where you'd ski, and it's either skiable mellow chutes (were steep) or not skiable unnaccesible cliff drops. only threat was having to climb up the ridge with some rocky zones that favor anyone but people in ski gear, for the most part I had at least 20' of width to hike up, wasnt on top of cornices and cliffs or anything major like that, scariest part was side stepping like 10' across a lyme wall but then ended right at the drop in. Trying to ski at least once a month til October 8th so I will have skied a full year, but i feel August and September will only provide stuff you have too bootpack 4 hours up and down for. Looking forward to this Thursday at the bird though, should be quite interesting.
Then you must kinda get what I mean, probably 80% of my pow days this year I spent alone, and was skiing out of gates with no beacon for half the season, just being around others in the bigger stuff but mainly just skied endless untouched laps in low angle pow fields. Being alone just makes me more aware of what's around me and how to approach it, I'm always prepared with a backpack with a shovel, food, gear and have a beacon now. It puts me in a mindset too where if I do end up having to climb rocky ridges I have to be 100% with everything and take cautious approaches. But yeah we really should have at least one other around for these incase of the worst.
OregonDeadYou have a green name on NS so that kinda goes without saying. Lol (:
TRUE. To be green requires at least a little bit of social awkwardness. Otherwise you wouldn’t spend a crap ton of time interacting with strangers on the internet.
Last night at work my RN said if he ever needed to make something awkward he was gonna call me. And I found it not only super valid but it’s definitely a strength of mine.
TnskiNice thing about skiing alone is you can go wherever you want when you want and dont have to go in the lodge or leave early.
That too, no waiting, no "oh let's go here instead" etc, I also like skiing all day every day I can and my friends dont really do that, but still skiing with them is the best time.
BigPurpleSkiSuitI'm thinking we might see tanner hall up at the bird on the 4th
Hes been spending summers at his house in PC for a while now, Like ive seen him on numerous occasions at Silver Mountain Sports Club just absolutely shredding it and killing it on his workouts. The dudes an impressive physical specimen tbh
Not a single person aside from my parents and grandma told me happy birthday today. I really don’t care about my birthday that much but that shit hurted :(
