tseeb
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I met up with Paul (P-Ute from SkiTalk) at Revelstoke base not much after 9. He reminded me that we'd met at Mammoth when I skied there the first three days of July in 2019. He is on right in first photo at bottom of post that nobody probably looks closely at due to bikinis in 2nd photo. Paul got into an open slot at Mustang where we are going into this afternoon, lives in SLC area and has skied over 100 days some years. He went on a snowcat trip to Skeena a couple of years ago. We skied to Stoke chair and rode it a few times finding good steep groomed snow on many runs. It was cold with my phone showing single digits although my car thermometer showed low 20s. This was in town after dinner. I showed 6F at 640 AM on Thursday.
Sign at base of chair said -19C at top. After skiing runs closer to chair we skied Hot Sauce twice and the 2nd time we continued down Pitch Black to gondola mid-station. Snow deteriorated on way down for a while, could have been older scraped off man-made then got better. My feet were getting cold and I was hoping to re-adjusted them on gondola but our car was too full. At the top we moved to Stella chair and skied to closed earlier Ripper. We rode it then skied groomed Chopper that was in good shape. At the top of the chair we went into new since I was last there warming hut that was very busy. It had a vending machine that was out of order so we ate some cashews and dark chocolate I had. I didn't warm up much but rallied for a few laps up Stoke chair before repeating Hot Sauce to Pitch Black to Snow Rodeo then skied a groomed road where we were blasted by 4 snow canons to the bottom. We quit before 2 with over 25K. My watch ran out of battery at over 15K as I was not watching level and it only lasts about 4 days of skiing. The SkiTracks are from Paul's phone.
I didn't take any photos except from outside motel where I'm staying where it was sunnier and warmer than it was on mountain. Construction is to add a hot tub.
We ate at German/Indian/Thai fusion Paramjit where Paul had Butter Chicken Spaetzle and I had Thai sampler special. I ordered mine 5 of 8 heat and did not finish all the sauces at it was warm enough that I ate all the rice with it. We had a beer after dinner at Rumpus Beer Company after not finding seats at a couple of other places we tried that were still full of diners.
Sign at base of chair said -19C at top. After skiing runs closer to chair we skied Hot Sauce twice and the 2nd time we continued down Pitch Black to gondola mid-station. Snow deteriorated on way down for a while, could have been older scraped off man-made then got better. My feet were getting cold and I was hoping to re-adjusted them on gondola but our car was too full. At the top we moved to Stella chair and skied to closed earlier Ripper. We rode it then skied groomed Chopper that was in good shape. At the top of the chair we went into new since I was last there warming hut that was very busy. It had a vending machine that was out of order so we ate some cashews and dark chocolate I had. I didn't warm up much but rallied for a few laps up Stoke chair before repeating Hot Sauce to Pitch Black to Snow Rodeo then skied a groomed road where we were blasted by 4 snow canons to the bottom. We quit before 2 with over 25K. My watch ran out of battery at over 15K as I was not watching level and it only lasts about 4 days of skiing. The SkiTracks are from Paul's phone.
I didn't take any photos except from outside motel where I'm staying where it was sunnier and warmer than it was on mountain. Construction is to add a hot tub.
We ate at German/Indian/Thai fusion Paramjit where Paul had Butter Chicken Spaetzle and I had Thai sampler special. I ordered mine 5 of 8 heat and did not finish all the sauces at it was warm enough that I ate all the rice with it. We had a beer after dinner at Rumpus Beer Company after not finding seats at a couple of other places we tried that were still full of diners.
