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!
Never been. As for this week's storm, it doesn't look too promising. But it does look like peak snow making conditions coming. Better than nothing I guess.
I know right! I passed on going up last weekend hoping this weekend will be worth the trek up there... I had to look at a map to refresh my memory but I always have fun on Chair 4: Exhibition, The Wedge & Ripcord because there's usually never anybody up there...
Just got a new board in. Rossignol Rocknrolla. Just for Bear/Summit. Am not taking it until they get a few feet of depth. Mountain Low straight gouged my board last week! I think there was 1-2" coverage all over the mountain!
Mine looks like it got a handjob from Edward Scissorhands Considering how many completely exposed rocks I rode over, the damage is minimal thank God. Nothing deep, just surface scratches. But there were some areas where you had absolutely no choice but to go over rocks so you just had to go to the parts where there were fewer sharp rocks to minimize damage. Definitely nothing like opening day where as long as you stayed away from the mob, you could have an enjoyable untouched powder experience.
Click on the "cameras" and "chain control" on the left hand side if its not showing in the link. Right now the cameras don't show much since its dark, but the chain control is allll along the side of Sierras, from Tahoe down to south of Mammoth.
Hopefully it hits us in the next two days as well.
are you not worried that it will be all tracked out by Friday? I mean because I was there on opening day and sure the first 3 hours was great, even some nice stashes of pow, but by 12-1 it was gone...
Bear actually has 3 chairs running. Even though it says only chair 9 and 1 are running, I saw chair 2 working as well. and summit opens on Friday as well :yahoo: and I guess that isn't including the forecasted 3"
For buying stuff it's not great but if you want ticket deals it's good.
TBH i like free riding at Snow summit a lot more, but canyons on powder days at bear are pretty epic.
Bear got over 4". Hitting summit tomorrow with my buddies who all have season passes and I'm actually carpooling with someone from this forum! Gonna be an epic day tomorrow
We were up at Summit today - hardly anyone was here - and now I know why - the wind the terrible. The chairlifts were swinging so bad that I got motion sickness and we had to go back to the condo - the white out at the top of the mountain was not fun either. And COLD! It was so cold our helmet communications stopped working.
However, it should be epic tomorrow! Can't wait for first chair! Looking at the mountain right now at 7:45 pm and the lights are on - it's all clear and the chairlifts are running. They were blowing the beginner area all day today.
One new thing - they put barriers up as you walk up the mountain to the chairlift and had people scanning your tickets there and also at the chairlifts. I think they want to keep foot traffic off the mountain and they are patrolling that this year - at least today they were.
Looks like it's a good week to escape to Snow Summit.
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