LCC/BCC Conditions

[Marc_C]

Peter, you committed a major breach of etiquette above. Not only did you publicly post the content of an email that wasn't addressed to you, which in and of itself is questionable, but you also posted the name and email address of the original sender! I've gone and edited that out of your post (and of Roger's that quoted it). Please don't ever do that again.

wow, i didn't realize anything was wrong.

Rog, you wouldn't have, since you didn't know the sources and permissions or lack thereof.

Marc: thanks for stepping in

Peter and the rest of you:
* Never, ever, post an email address in a public forum. On one of my unprotected addresses that I don't try to restrict giving out, I get over 500 spam emails per day.
* Never, ever, post the contents of a private email unless you have express permission from the author. The only possible exception might be a tiny excerpt with appropriate redaction where necessary, but even that, while probably ok leagally, is on the edge of civility and ethics to say nothing of etiquette.

 

[salida]

Come on here.

Snowbird's lifts move you more effectively to the goods. IE Great for a quick powder morning. Snowbird also offers more sidecountry accessible terrain, that is incredibly underutilized due to locals being incredibly spoiled.

Alta staggers its openings better than snowbird, and is great for people showing up at 10 AM and still want to score some easy fresh. You can traverse to almost everything at Alta, making it nice because you never have to take your skis off to get to it.

Rog, your pow/corn might be nice, but at the end of the day its low angle with short vertical. Cool, but not what most are looking for.

The rest of you - don't even think of publishing my e-mail address on this forum! :sabre fight:

Cool.

 

[Tony Crocker]

salida's post above: =D> =D> =D>

100% on target on all points.

 

[icelanticskier]

Come on here.
Rog, your pow/corn might be nice, but at the end of the day its low angle with short vertical. Cool, but not what most are looking for.

you obviously haven't spent much time in the presidentials in winter, or spring. last week provided 3000 vert runs at gos from ridge to the car in face shot pow and 4000 vert in spring corn with pitches up to 50+ degrees in spring.
rog

 

[Admin]

you obviously haven't spent much time in the presidentials in winter, or spring. last week provided 3000 vert runs at gos from ridge to the car in face shot pow and 4000 vert in spring corn with pitches up to 50+ degrees in spring.

And what, precisely, did last weekend provide? :lol:

 

[Skidog]

Come on here.
Rog, your pow/corn might be nice, but at the end of the day its low angle with short vertical. Cool, but not what most are looking for.

you obviously haven't spent much time in the presidentials in winter, or spring. last week provided 3000 vert runs at gos from ridge to the car in face shot pow and 4000 vert in spring corn with pitches up to 50+ degrees in spring.
rog

Thats a joke, I know both Salida and myself have spent a good deal of time in most of the areas you speak of. Tuckermans being one of the few, but you are not getting corn there now. Its probably pretty dangerous up there right about now actually.

Again I agree with Salida. Low angle. Its fun sometimes, but....cmon man dont try to paint some rosey picture of the east. We've all pretty much been there.

M

 

[Patrick]

Thats a joke, I know both Salida and myself have spent a good deal of time in most of the areas you speak of. (...)
We've all pretty much been there.

I know Salida's eastern credenitials and has crebidility, I haven't seen your Eastern credentials? Sorry...don't tell me you lived in Jersey and skied Kmart or Okemo, the East is biggest than that.

 

[yak]

I'm leaving Vail for LCC in a couple hours. Any suggestions on the best place to stay at the mountain?

 

[Admin]

Stay on the mountain? Which one? And a better question is why? Stay in the Salt Lake Valley to give yourself flexibility and save a boatload of coin to boot. You can get efficiency units near the Cottonwoods for ~$50/unit/night, even less by the week. One of the beauties of coming here is having four ski resorts within 15-20 minutes of the Salt Lake Valley and expand that to seven within 35 minutes. You lose that flexibility by staying up canyon where it will cost you several hundred per night.

 

[marcski]

Stay on the mountain? Which one? And a better question is why? Stay in the Salt Lake Valley to give yourself flexibility and save a boatload of coin to boot. You can get efficiency units near the Cottonwoods for ~$50/unit/night, even less by the week. One of the beauties of coming here is having four ski resorts within 15-20 minutes of the Salt Lake Valley and expand that to seven within 35 minutes. You lose that flexibility by staying up canyon where it will cost you several hundred per night.

I think I have to agree here with the wizard...aka Admin. Missed skiing with you this time, Marc....although I did make some turns with Peter and Kingslug one morning.

I just got back last week and although, had less than optimal conditions for LCC, I still had a blast...but for the first time, I stayed down in the valley and I have to say, it was great. I stayed in one of the efficiency units Admin speaks of and to be honest, the room was pretty much exactly like the room I've been staying in up in the canyon for the last 8 years. Oh, the efficiency unit cost me as much for the week as one night would up in the canyon. Granted food is included, but....um...no offense....I'm a New Yorker...I'm not going to Utah for the food...and I actually enjoyed eating out down in the valley or taking it easy in my room. I also have some local first hand beta on cheap car rentals. PM me if anyone needs info on that! \/

 

[Marc_C]

you obviously haven't spent much time in the presidentials in winter, or spring. last week provided 3000 vert runs at gos from ridge to the car in face shot pow and 4000 vert in spring corn with pitches up to 50+ degrees in spring.

And what, precisely, did last weekend provide? :lol:

Rog will probably rave about the 20' vert pile of slush behind the local ice skating rink that he skied. :wink:
But someone on some other discussion fora wrote about an actual northeast ski area:

Porcelain and death grapefruit.
I've never before seen deep ice chunks that were wall to wall, and top to bottom. Now I know how to ski on bocce balls.

 

[tirolerpeter]

Conditions in LCC were excellent today. Mother nature dropped an official 11" on Alta last night. While it wasn't the lightest UT fluff it was/is POWDER. And, in addition to some of the "secret" powder shots that delivered even more then Alta posted, there was an amazing amount of untracked on the far side of Catherine's. You didn't even have to go out past the rope line to find nice conditions on Ballroom. The light was good, and the sun made some significant appearances on and off during the day and kept temps tolerable. Mostly though, it gave us good visibility without cooking the snow. That should make for some fine skiing tomorrow also. Overall it was a delightful day and a nice change from the conditions of the last few days. \/

 

[salida]

Good skiing out there today. Nice to be back in the fresh snow saddle.

Will soften out the base for the walloping that is about to come.

and Rog - give me a break. I'm probably the only one on this board that has spent more time on Mt. Wash than you have. When it's great it's great, but it isn't a place to go ski pow a 100 days a year. Stowe/Jay is the only NE microclime that gets any where near to the snow quality and consistency of the west, and even then you wont ski there because of the rat race.

 

[Skidog]

Thats a joke, I know both Salida and myself have spent a good deal of time in most of the areas you speak of. (...)
We've all pretty much been there.

I know Salida's eastern credenitials and has crebidility, I haven't seen your Eastern credentials? Sorry...don't tell me you lived in Jersey and skied Kmart or Okemo, the East is biggest than that.

Bwahaha im pretty sure ive hit every VT resort multiple times, most NH resorts, and tuckermans over and over. I do however have a condo at Killington. ive been skiing the east coast my entire life, well 30 years of it anyway. I think I have a decent grasp on what it has to offer. Thats why im here now!

M

 

[Skidog]

Will soften out the base for the walloping that is about to come.

Unfortunately looks like the Central mtns are going to get the best of this one...at least according to the Avie report this AM.

MOUNTAIN WEATHER


We have a storm today that is mostly heading into central Utah, which may give them up to a foot of new snow, but for northern Utah, it looks like just light snow showers with perhaps 4 inches accumulation today as it passes. Ridge top winds may pick up a little as the weak, cold front passes later today. They should blow 20 mph with higher gusts from the southwest, switching to the north by tonight. Ridge top temperature will remain cold, in the teens, possibly rising to 20’s in the heat of the day, then drop back down to around 10 degrees overnight. Extended forecast: Looks like another chance for snow on Monday. Then high pressure building in for a few more days.

Oh well...

M

 

[Harvey]

Hey Salida...I was on an airplane this week and I saw an English/Spanish sign that said:

<--- EXIT / SALIDA --->

So now I get it...Salida is Spanish for "exit."

Could you share the story of your screenname?

 

[salida]

Salida is also a high mountain town in southern CO, from which I hail (originally). One of the more beautiful spots in the country in my opinion.

In the old days the spanish settlers named the town Salida because it was the exit from the mountains, now-a-days the Coloradans say the name with an English twinge.

 

[Patrick]

Could you share the story of your screenname?

I still don't get Harvey 44? :-"

 

[jamesdeluxe]

now-a-days the Coloradans say the name with an English twinge.

When I skied at Monarch last year, hearing locals pronounce the town SAL - EYE - DA was like an icepick in my ear... and I don't even speak Spanish.

 

[Tony Crocker]

and Rog - give me a break. I'm probably the only one on this board that has spent more time on Mt. Wash than you have. When it's great it's great, but it isn't a place to go ski pow a 100 days a year. Stowe/Jay is the only NE microclime that gets any where near to the snow quality and consistency of the west, and even then you won't ski there because of the rat race.

Another breath of fresh air from someone who has actually skied extensively both East and West and seems to have a rational perspective.