OFFICIAL 2021- 22 Ski Season Thread

YellowSnow

Well, it's off to a pretty shitty start pretty much everywhere in the West.

https://snowbrains.com/18-resorts-postponed-opening-this-week-lack-of-snow/

PurpleThrobber

Trump's fault.

BleachedAnusDawg

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

YellowSnow

PurpleThrobber said:

Trump's fault.

Actually, we? already had about a 50 inch base by last Turkey Day when Trump was still POTUS.

YellowSnow

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

BleachedAnusDawg

YellowSnow said:

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BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

GreenRiverGatorz

BleachedAnusDawg said:

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YellowSnow said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

Lol, I don't think you can even call Hurricane Ridge a ski resort. We're talking maybe 400 feet of vertical with a single t-bar. Plus the Olympics snow is even wetter and shittier than the Cascade cement.

GreenRiverGatorz

Just wait until La Nina gets his her guys in.

BleachedAnusDawg

GreenRiverGatorz said:

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BleachedAnusDawg said:

YellowSnow said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

Lol, I don't think you can even call Hurricane Ridge a ski resort. We're talking maybe 400 feet of vertical with a single t-bar. Plus the Olympics snow is even wetter and shittier than the Cascade cement.

But are there lines to wait for a chair?

pawz

BleachedAnusDawg said:

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YellowSnow said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

Some call Crystal a top 10 North American Ski Resort. Some do that.

pawz

YellowSnow said:

Well, it's off to a pretty shitty start pretty much everywhere in the West.

https://snowbrains.com/18-resorts-postponed-opening-this-week-lack-of-snow/

Finally. A Yella tread I can get behind.

TYFYS.


I bought an IKON pass this year. Plan to use it at Crystal, Bachelor, trips booked for Arapaho Basin, and maybe Snoqualmie. I also hate money and bought a local pass for Stevens.


Highly recommend for skiers/snowboarders in the Puget Sound area to subscribe to an email list by "The Powder Poobah". He is a local meteorologist and ski aficionado. He tracks the weather patterns and is far more reliable for ski forcast than the local news and resorts can hope to be. Legit the only regular email that hits my inbox that I read religiously.

YellowSnow

pawz said:

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YellowSnow said:

Well, it's off to a pretty shitty start pretty much everywhere in the West.

https://snowbrains.com/18-resorts-postponed-opening-this-week-lack-of-snow/

Finally. A Yella tread I can get behind.

TYFYS.


I bought an IKON pass this year. Plan to use it at Crystal, Bachelor, trips booked for Arapaho Basin, and maybe Snoqualmie. I also hate money and bought a local pass for Stevens.


Highly recommend for skiers/snowboarders in the Puget Sound area to subscribe to an email list by "The Powder Poobah". He is a local meteorologist and ski aficionado. He tracks the weather patterns and is far more reliable for ski forcast than the local news and resorts can hope to be. Legit the only regular email that hits my inbox that I read religiously.

CHRIST. A Yella thread you can get behind?

You posted more about EC than anything in your life, my fren. YWFMS.

YellowSnow

pawz said:

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BleachedAnusDawg said:

YellowSnow said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

Some call Crystal a top 10 North American Ski Resort. Some do that.

There's nothing that Crystal is Top 10 in in N. America.

That said, I loved Crystal (pre Ikon debacle) and it's a great hill given proximity to Seattle.

pawz

YellowSnow said:

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pawz said:

YellowSnow said:

Well, it's off to a pretty shitty start pretty much everywhere in the West.

https://snowbrains.com/18-resorts-postponed-opening-this-week-lack-of-snow/

Finally. A Yella tread I can get behind.

TYFYS.


I bought an IKON pass this year. Plan to use it at Crystal, Bachelor, trips booked for Arapaho Basin, and maybe Snoqualmie. I also hate money and bought a local pass for Stevens.


Highly recommend for skiers/snowboarders in the Puget Sound area to subscribe to an email list by "The Powder Poobah". He is a local meteorologist and ski aficionado. He tracks the weather patterns and is far more reliable for ski forcast than the local news and resorts can hope to be. Legit the only regular email that hits my inbox that I read religiously.

CHRIST. A Yella thread you can get behind?

You posted more about EC than anything in your life, my fren. YWFMS.

I was making up for gross ineptitude. Gross.

pawz

YellowSnow said:

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pawz said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

YellowSnow said:

BleachedAnusDawg said:

Anyone ever gone to Hurricane Ridge on the peninsula?

Just a t-bar right? No chairs?

Yeah, pretty sure. From where I'm at it's about the same drive to there or Crystal. Crystal obviously has far more in terms of runs, but I would guess that Hurricane Ridge is probably light traffic.

Some call Crystal a top 10 North American Ski Resort. Some do that.

There's nothing that Crystal is Top 10 in in N. America.

That said, I loved Crystal (pre Ikon debacle) and it's a great hill given proximity to Seattle.

I didn't say I called it that. And the more I think of it, the list I saw might have been just the US.

ATBS, it was #10.

pawz

Here is tonight's email from the powder Poobah.

YellowSnow

pawz said:

Here is tonight's email from the powder Poobah.

These atmospheric rivers are shit as fuck.

Swaye

Ski season in Virginia:

Swaye

Obligatory

Kaepsknee

Looks like it won’t be until near Xmas before anything opens up for real in the States.

pawz

Kaepsknee said:

Looks like it won’t be until near Xmas before anything opens up for real in the States.

Last weekend was fucking brutal to the PNW snow pack.