Made it up Wednesday the three inches that fell was no help as I'm sure you can all imagine. If anything it was dangerous because all the rocks you could clearly see are hiding right below the surface (been getting my money's worth out of my p-tex gun). The front of the mountain wasn't bad made it out to sentinel for a couple runs it's still pretty hard everywhere. Went around back took some laps through fawn ridge which was probably the best area as far as snow. I took the thunder saddle back over some of those chutes weren't too bad. All in all it's not that bad, with no snow and lots of sun the backside is going to be sketchy pretty soon. I don't think I'm gonna make it tomorrow and I'll probably hit Sierra over the weekend since I've got some work in south lake this weekend.
What's a good area to stay near Kirkwood? I've been looking up cabins, and it seems like the only ones I can find are the condo that are on the actual resort/mountain.
Me and my group are hoping to find something with a hot tub. Thanks! Hence, we're looking for an actual cabin/house. We'll do condos on the resort if need be.
There is NOTHING near Kirkwood. You stay at the resort. You can try booking a room in South Lake, but if it gets a heavy snow they'll close (or restrict) the pass and you won't get to your room anyway. Best advice, if you can swing it, is to stay at the resort and pray for a big dump of snow. Otherwise, there are lots of places along the strip in SLT, from fancy casinos to dives. Personally, we've always loved the Likeside Inn. Small, very snowboarder friendly, good little casino if you're into that, 24 hour Mexican restaurant, and they offer discounted Kirkwood vouchers at the front desk. Not fancy, but they have suites, a hot tub...but you're an hours drive from Kirkwood.
There is NOTHING near Kirkwood. You stay at the resort. You can try booking a room in South Lake, but if it gets a heavy snow they'll close (or restrict) the pass and you won't get to your room anyway. Best advice, if you can swing it, is to stay at the resort and pray for a big dump of snow. Otherwise, there are lots of places along the strip in SLT, from fancy casinos to dives. Personally, we've always loved the Likeside Inn. Small, very snowboarder friendly, good little casino if you're into that, 24 hour Mexican restaurant, and they offer discounted Kirkwood vouchers at the front desk. Not fancy, but they have suites, a hot tub...but you're an hours drive from Kirkwood.
That's what I thought, because I just can't find cabins nearby Kirkwood. The only listing that comes up are the condos/townhomes that are on the resort itself.
I guess it'll be cool to actually stay on the resort? I've never tried that before. It's always been a cozy little cabin in the woods for me.
Well the sierra cement is plentiful, been riding the last two days and it has been wet and heavy out there. The snow line is supposed to drop tonight hopefully that makes for some lighter snow on top of the fresh cement. Tomorrow should be another good one (maybe it won't be raining at the base) bring your goretex leave your powder board
The WRX clutch is stuck at the bottom, it happened near home, I was going to buy new wipers for the Wood peregrinage tomorrow. Two perfectly waxed boards and the car waiting early bird at the Mec. Mission Cement canceled.
It's not getting any better, temps are going up... and I am with you about the pass I got exactly 12 runs this season, mostly off Chair 4. First time in 6 years that I haven't even covered the pass cost.
12 runs, 2 the 22nd Jan... it was raining, got soaked twice, no visibility did two runs, it suckers, drove back home. and 10 runs 2 weekends ago decent day... better than I thought, but my legs melted pretty quickly. Was basically my first day of the season.
Next time I'm listing to u, I had the day off 2:facepalm1:, Im working tomorrow but I'll be up Sunday.They added park city to the pass , so I'm going to get to go check out park city next year..gotta makes some turns if we ever go on the same day!
Looks pretty decent don't know why I didn't go yesterday, I kinda forgot the backside didn't open on Wednesday. I'm heading up now hope fawn ridge has some goodies left for me
yup when you get off of chair four you go left and bomb it to the rope tows that aren't running right now some hiking is definitely required, I'll usually hike at least half of it then traverse the rest of the way to the resort boundary. It was pretty nice over there today, it so damn hot and all the flat areas are deathly slow
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