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#1 ·
Anyone in SoCal? Looking for a few buddies to ride up the local mountains. I have a 4x4 with snow tires. I'm a beginner rider, passed 4 hours of training. I would love to get more practice runs this season. Let's go!
 
#49 ·
Mountain high isn't that bad if you really want to go. I will never go there again personally, the thing that gets me is I've never been somewhere where so many people sit in the middle of the runs that are already small as it is. Also be careful with your board and leaving it anywhere especially if you have a really nice set up. I think it was last season that some guy was stealing boards and putting them under his truck, well until he got caught.
 
#51 · (Edited)
It's not an epidemic to the point where you have to chain the board to your leg and carry pepper spray, but like with anything don't leave your stuff unattended. They have a free ski/board check right next to the Lodge/main lift, no excuse to just leave your board out. Go up, hand them your board and they give you a ticket and go walk 20 ft to the lodge(eat/warm up/piss). If you use the ski check, you can knock off that fear of losing your shit.

They are blowing snow in addition to the fact that it's still snowing naturally, based off the cams it looks like another 3 inches has fallen since I first posted and it's still coming down. We still got the rest of today and all of tomorrow + the snow blowing to build a layer.

It's looking real good, and they said by tomorrow they will know if it's a go for Sunday. I already laid out my gear in my room, here's hoping. If it does open and you plan on going just let me know and we can meet up there if you want. I'm usually there an hour before opening and I sit in the lodge eating my breakfast until the lifts run. Nobody has ever given me attitude/trouble or bothered me while I'm up there, no thug is gonna shank you for looking at him wrong.
 
#52 ·
Hi there fellas. Just joined this forum, was looking for something more of a "local nature".

I hit Bear, not interested in MtH. Also my days are usually mid week so I don't care about ppl since there are none at Bear during those days anyway :thumbsup:

This year I will be making a trip to Mammoth for sure, never been. In-laws have a bom-diggidy place in Truckee but works does not permit a trip any time soon. Fail.

Will be on here often, so lets catch up.

Happy shredding in 13/14!

R.
 
#54 ·
Def looking forward to Mt High opening, even though Id obviously rather be in Bear or Mammoth. Mammoth is quite a farther drive and their entire mountain isnt even open yet, so I'm not sure its worth it until mid-season.

I'm def down to meet up with some ppl at some point tho. There should be a Socal meetup thread...
 
#59 · (Edited)
It's official Mt High is opening tomorrow, 8:30am. Bear is also getting shit on with snow and they are doing snowmaking as well, so they could very well be open for the Thanksgiving weekend if we're lucky. I'm considering skipping tomorrow and just heading down during the week to avoid the crowd, all that pent up riding frustration is about to explode when everyone and their Mom hits Mt. High tomorrow. Might go Monday instead, but we will see how bad I want to ride tonight. If I do go I'll probably be there at 7am to get a front row spot for my car, and then I'll just recline the seat and sleep until lifts start spinning
 
#62 ·
So I'm looking at the tickets at mountain high and by my understanding if you just want to show up and ride you need to purchase either the 4 hour or 8 hour ticket correct... I don't wanna buy a full season pass or anything, just a single day is all...

Not fully decided on going but when I'm ready I can expect to pay for either the 4hour or 8 hour pass...?
 
#65 ·
Yeah just saw the news, they had a live report from Mth.

Also they showed a cam from Bear and its all white, with snow blowing non stop.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bear pushed the opening day before Thanksgiving. They were hustling tickets and "combos" on Facebook a week ago when it was 80F across the south land. :thumbsdown:

:smh:
 
#67 ·
Just came back from Mt High, sweet jesus there was a shitload of people! The lines were ridiculously short for the first 3 hours because the cashiers were working very slow and the lines to buy tickets/passes were long as fuck, so there wasn't that many people on the mountain....yet. Once they started going munching thru those purchases, slowly more and more and more people were added to the mountain. :dizzy: I'm surprised how many people completely avoided the pow and only stuck to the groomers. I went to the very top and the Black runs were practically all untouched 2ft+ pow. I found a nice little deep pocket and I laid down and completely covered myself with powder and listened to the wind blowing thru the trees for a bit before continuing on. Prob looked weird as hell for anyone passing by, just seeing a face sticking out of the snow lol. But I'm glad I got to hit the fresh stuff before they completely obliterate and groom the entire mountain.
 
#74 ·
Well I ended up going to Mt. High for the first time on opening day at the last moment... left at 5am in the morning (unable to sleep a wink) drove from Shadow Hills, and was there at 7:30am... left at 3:00pm. It was worth it:) IF you were there for the first 3-4hours from opening. Nice untouched patches around if you looked... Staff was very pleasant... Mellow chill runs listening to good vibes to get the rhythm back in my hawaiian snow legs...
After noon though it looked like a rave. Saw batman snowboarding, I looked at him and said "batman", he looked at me and said "homie"...snow seemed shredded by then. Crowds moved in and it was over...
But overall great time and experience. My third mountain i've been to:)
Worth it for those first several untracked runs, but I don't think the snow will last.
My highlight of the day was jes bombing down a slight section of hill, hitting this subtle bump, and going airborne for the first time, landing it, almost losing it, but hold it and ride it out...I was proud of myself. I never even figured that little bump would boost me like that. It caught me completely off guard. But pulling it off left me with a sense of f%$# yeah:) Keep in mind I am very new & it wasn't anything huge or major for you experienced riders. but a respectable 2ft high by 3seconds of suspend animation in my mind :giggle:
what can I say besides I need to catch up and go as much as possible to catch up with the rest of you guy & girls:thumbsup ... but now I understand what everyone means when they speak of crowed runs... the mountain fills up quickly
 
#75 ·
Yes you're fucking crazy. And fuck. I need gas money. Fail. I'm thinking of going up this weekend obviously, but I'm shooting for Monday: great conditions, and more empty lines hopefully
 
#87 ·
What a small world for SnowOwl to find us in the parking lot and ask if I am on the snowboardingforum.com website - how he recognized us without our turkey hats I'll never know! lol He said he recognized the communications we have. Small world!!! Hope you had a fun time!
 
#108 ·
Nice seeing you guys:thumbsup: looks like we could get a couple inches from this. I just want more runs or summit open to clear out the darn traffic in the park. I almost ended multiple lives either landing off the hip by the spine or hitting jibs in general. Bah. But oh well , I'll be there again this weekend with a decent group to celebrate my birfday
 
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