Recent content by ShiftyRider

Great thread and photos! #PartyDoesntStartTilFirstTracksCrewArrives

R.I.P. to the cow, his memory lives on with your trip report...

Foreign and/or detached political commentary is often the most astute. Here in America, two of the dangers when stupidity reaches a critical mass are somewhat philosophical... I can't go thinking I'm surrounded by morons without turning into a misanthrope. So it's prolly better to acknowledge...

Re that chicken coop you used to need, there's a bunch of books that the stores don't want any more. I think it's because they need more room for children's picturebooks, like "Cat in the Hat", "My Pet Goat", and "Where's Cricket?" Can the chicken coop be repurposed as an unsold book warehouse?

I telemark at Baldy and Mammoth most of my daze, tho I'm way better on a snowboard. I remember before I ever slid on snow, watching Franz Klammer and immediately knowing a wanted to be an alpine skier. Telemark on the other hand could never be done justice on video, you just gotta learn it then...

Chris, I'ma telemark today Saturday at Baldy look for the Buffalo Plaid/Kinco Style and introduce yourself please. Here's my AR Emoji...

Oops, stumbled on a real old shot while looking for something else. After a big January storm we checked with patrol then hiked the backbone from the top of Chair 4 to the obvious ridge that provides a higher entry into Harwood's main south gully (upper right in my Mar 15 message's vidcap). The...

For Baldy I recommend you bring your own food, their kitchen tends to be inexplicably slow. Also last week they switched to Courtesy Hour (opening an hour later and) closing at 5:15.

...penguin's tryin to be like ShiftyRider sporting black boots... "The first penguin pioneers that settled Africa millions of years ago all went extinct." https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/penguins-colonized-africa-thrice/

My memory is shot, there's often willow-like trees down low Holcumac near where the gulley/creek forms that can be nearly impassable. Here's a video google found that shows a way...

Mount Harwood...

At the bottom it's back to not wearing your skis for the Chair 1 ride.

Well on Sunday I saw a pinwheel 7-feet-tall...