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OFFICIAL 2021- 22 Ski Season Thread

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,790 Founders Club
    pawz 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
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,790 Founders Club
    pawz 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
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club

    pawz 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
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    edited November 2021

    pawz 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
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    Here is tonight's email from the powder Poobah.



  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,790 Founders Club
    pawz said:

    Here is tonight's email from the powder Poobah.



    These atmospheric rivers are shit as fuck.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    Looks like it won’t be until near Xmas before anything opens up for real in the States.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    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.