Cascadia/WA Pow Farming ‘23/‘24

**AK47bp** · 12-09-2023, 09:27 PM

I think every pass holder in the Puget Sound went to West today. Had my touring gear in the car and just kept driving to Silver Fir. People parked all the way past Commonwealth. Mostly rock free but many open creeks still.

**carlh** · 12-09-2023, 11:28 PM

West parking was a shitshow but the mountain wasn’t too bad and the crowds left when it started snowing. Some open spots but the soft groomers were nice. Just lapped the greens with the little guy, need to get him out of the backseat.

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**phatty** · 12-10-2023, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by carlh

West parking was a shitshow but the mountain wasn’t too bad and the crowds left when it started snowing. Some open spots but the soft groomers were nice. Just lapped the greens with the little guy, need to get him out of the backseat.

Love the kid stoke! Nice way to rock the PNW mag uniform. No need to ask for change, just look for the Dakine vest

**SirVicSmasher** · 12-10-2023, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by SirVicSmasher

Steven's opens Wednesday or so I've heard

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Correction... Tuesday

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**Wapow** · 12-10-2023, 06:47 PM

Soft serve was on special at Paradise yesterday. All you can eat, one day only.

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**wickstad** · 12-10-2023, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by ey_allen

Did a few backside and one frontside lap today at Stevens. Despite the skin track being a bit of a mess getting up DD the skiing was top notch. Got plenty of shin to knee deep turns and didn’t really hit anything buried.

Lots of open creeks holes around so here’s hoping for some more cold temps.

any pictures of that skin track? That would be interesting to see. That’s steep. You go up the ridge?

**wickstad** · 12-10-2023, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by wickstad

any pictures of that skin track? That would be interesting to see. That’s steep. You go up the ridge?

Pretty sure I’ve booted it.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 12-10-2023, 07:31 PM

Sometimes I talk to myself

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**wickstad** · 12-10-2023, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

Sometimes I talk to myself

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Hey dude.

**wickstad** · 12-10-2023, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by wickstad

Hey dude.

It is steep. I think I booted it but in the spring. Up the ridge that bounds Big Chief bowl on skier’s left. We used to lap double diamond. Remember that? I do.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 12-10-2023, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by wickstad

It is steep. I think I booted it but in the spring. Up the ridge that bounds Big Chief bowl on skier’s left. We used to lap double diamond. Remember that? I do.

I think the usual route to the backside is up Daisy and Skid Road? At least that’s where I see most people going

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**suncrustable** · 12-10-2023, 08:58 PM

Looks like Stevens opens on Tuesday.

**Huskier** · 12-10-2023, 10:47 PM

Those that braved variable freezing levels this w/e: I saw Rex/FQ/GV spinning. Anyone venture off trail? How sharky are we talking? Contemplating a Tuesday leg stretcher

**ey_allen** · 12-11-2023, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by wickstad

any pictures of that skin track? That would be interesting to see. That’s steep. You go up the ridge?

No pics, but yeah it’s steep. That’s the usual “quick” way to get to the backside early season. There is typically a track there, though usually I prefer going under Tye as I have shit skinning technique early season. Combined with shit skinning from everyone else that usually leads a beat up and slippery track (which was the case Saturday).

**oftpiste** · 12-11-2023, 12:58 PM

Don't worry about the backseat thing for a while. Just focus on having fun. Once he's bigger and heavier and can pressure a boot cuff it'll come around.

Originally Posted by carlh

West parking was a shitshow but the mountain wasn’t too bad and the crowds left when it started snowing. Some open spots but the soft groomers were nice. Just lapped the greens with the little guy, need to get him out of the backseat.

**LukeWright** · 12-11-2023, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Huskydoc

Those that braved variable freezing levels this w/e: I saw Rex/FQ/GV spinning. Anyone venture off trail? How sharky are we talking? Contemplating a Tuesday leg stretcher

Coverage is pretty good with a little caution, particularly once you're up a little higher (~~5500'). The main thing is going to be the breakable crust that set up yesterday, made for pretty awful off piste skiing. We were in the backcountry but heard the same thing about freshly opened terrain yesterday.

**Buster Highmen** · 12-11-2023, 04:56 PM

Crustal today until 11:00 was an Ice Station Zebra, frozen mist soup with 6" deep ice cast trenches and murdercrust off what little incredibly poorly done zamboni groom there was.
30 minutes of grooming the virtually unskiable frozen chop would have made a hell of a lot of difference.

By 11:00, the sun had worked a little edgability into the exposed snow with the Lucky Shot rollers getting decent. But I was dead by 1:00, not enough leg blasters or just fucking killer edging exercise today.

Lots of wet slides yesterday fed the frozen chickenheads debris fields today. They did not ski well.

**Toadman** · 12-11-2023, 05:06 PM

W/O the Buster flake rating, I'm not sure exactly how meh it was at Xtal. Sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand words or 3 or 4 flakes for that matter.

**Buster Highmen** · 12-11-2023, 05:10 PM

* at most

**kamtron** · 12-11-2023, 10:48 PM

Got a taste of some of the pure fluff last Friday. We got another 1.5 feet of base-building wetness on top of that, I ain't complaining. This year early season is about patience or getting high in the warm and sunny windows that keep opening up.