Spring? Nah man, Winter.
Posted by: drexnefex in Snow, tags: Alpental, Face Shots, PowderTechnically we’ve surpassed the official Winter season and have entered into Spring. Usually by late March we get hit with some epic warm sunny days perfect for slushy park sessions. Pretty much all last week it dumped up in the mountains–cold and snowy. It even dumped on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night (hipsters be trippin!).
The weekend opened with 12″ of new at Alpental on Saturday. Complete with an uphill skier race snaking the mountain from bottom to top back down Nash, through Snake Dance and back up to Piss Pass. All through thigh deep pow too. Pretty hardcore. Somehow i avoided colliding with one of these doods who were hiking right up the Fan.
The race resulted in the closure of Snake Dance almost all day, and the closure of the backcountry all day. Here we were, end of the season, not riding slushy park but riding thigh deep pow at Alpental (the best riding in Washington State) yet we couldn’t go in the BC but all these other manic ski doods could?! F that. F you.
Sunday was just as crowded with 9 more inches of even colder snow. Ride more pow? Sure why not. It seemed weird though…like something was off to be riding this much pow this time of year. The A-man made a rare Sunday appearance, Clem was nowhere to be found, Petersen rode two days in a row, Otter/Kopafeel both stayed home and i didn’t duck a rope once.
Ski Patrol finally legally opened BC around 1. They decided it would be a great idea to start posting a volunteer patroller at the gate. They actually asked to see my pass. Which i actually did have on my person. So i actually was able to get in while everyone else just went low around the patroller and got in anyways.
Needless to say, everything worked out. Everyone got tons of turns, snowballs were thrown, skiers were heckled, beer was drank and face shot were had.
Here are a few pics from last weekend.
Here’s a video of the sequence pic above. S.Petersen is filmer.
The A-man dropped a bomb post on his site recapping the weekend. Check it.
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April 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
That was some tasty shit on Saturday! Just wanna say thanks to Drex, Mark, Shane, and JR for showing Joey and I the goods. Stoked.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
ayo thanks for the logroll holmz! Webby traffic just spiked, I got a beep from my security guy, alerting me to a possible hijack attempt. It was just someone following your link…
highlight of the weekend may have been re-separating Hammo’s shoulder on some Drex Pushover Manouvre. That was indeed tite.
Make it end…sick of snowboarding for sure. Sick of ski patrols, skiers, snowboarders, snowboarder patrols, cambertalk, “you should’ve been here ____day” comments, sickofitall…
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
for rizzle. time to hang it up and start taking cold Ocean beatings.
that’s twice i’ve clocked the pushover maneuver this year. Clem’s was much more epic. im gonna go ahead and claim veteran on that maneuver.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Yo, Im in shanghai right now hangin with two Chinese babes!!!!
Should I ask the one with the squid in the bag if I can try some?
April 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am
ooh harsh. just don’t get ’shanghai’d’. watch out for squid ink. it stains. ha ha ha!
April 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
That was fun sat fo sure, haven’t been up to the mountain since! Don’t want to wreck the pow memory…
Fun meeting Joe and Foss and being a cougar hunter with JR.
“Everybody wang chung tonight!”
Time to ride my bike home from work.
May 31st, 2008 at 11:08 am
WHOA just ran across this, saturday was epic and bc closed for some uphill fuckin ski race? wtf?
below knoll 1 there was a tiny gate open for the skiiers to enter…..so we did too. they tried to talk shit for messin up their skin track and i was like WHAAAAA FU MANG, I BOUGHT A SEASONS PASS AN IF THIS SHITS NOT CLOSED DUE TO AVY DANGER THEN ITS OPEN!
I was prepared to battle yo. epic day.