Wicked Weekend Without Wind at KW – 01/07/07

Date:

January 6-7th, 200SEVEN

The ultra fabulous ski field:

Weather & Temp:

Absolutely wind-free Californian sunshine, with temps ranging from 5-45 F. With total snowfall of 90 inches for the year, you know its going to be deep out there.

Members of Ski Club California:

666, Mrs. 666, AKA, Arty50, Lph, Zippy, Tyrone Shoelaces, Pimpin Frog, JMetzler, Mrs. JMetzler, DaveP, Jrosen32, Mishap, watersnowdirt, bklyntrayc, rumors of Squatch.

Synopsis:

After a solid 18 inches of fluff followed by 300 inches of wind on Friday, the weekend conditions were going to be questionable at best. However, the goods were uncovered, and the weekend turned out to be wishfully wicked indeed.

Music St. Cal – ‘Losing Ground’

Day One:

Stevens Peak – updated with some frost…

This is California Mr. Gore……frozen solid. Caples with Roundtop pictured.

As Slim would say: Hi there!

Zippy in T-saddle…one Moment at a time.

Mrs. 666 cuts the cue and finds a line…

Making Schmidty happy…

JMetzler takes a pose…

Zippy gets uber-gnarly in T-saddle….

Different camera, same landing….

He decides to straightline skier’s right of Chamois…

Seems pretty solid on those Comis….

Kinda boring if you ask me…the moguls down there aren’t even that huge yet.

Off to the Outer Palisades…BC gates OPEN….666 shows how horrible the snow was after the hurricane on Friday.

SUPER wind-effected….

Mishap and Jrosen32 rode the same skis and wore the same outfit…Mishap finds some horrible snow…

Jrosen32 is having a bad time….

He then finds a natural super-pipe all to himself…..

JMetzler hates skiing snow like this….

Sometimes life throws you a curveball…JMetzler is ready.

Mrs. 666 wanted some POWDAH, so I took her for a lap…she hated it.

Rare appearance by Mr. Camo Hoodie…

And again skiing EAR DEEP in Tahoe!

Day TWO:

Mt. Tallac getting better….slowly.

Temp in Hope Valley on the morning commute….

KW BC recon from car window…without it our weekend would not have been as rad.

Ty on some protos in Chamois/Oops….

Ty ties one on….

Ty near the Fingers…

…and then below performing ski-testing maneuvers…

Zippy getting into the gnar in Lower Cirque…but may line was WAY more bmx.

He hearts this maneuver…

SCHRALP????????

OMG….LOL…PLEASE, you’ve got to be kidding….optical illusion air.

Who’s that guy? And why does everyone I know ski on weird skis?

Our initial target…but being lazy we opted for a super steep slope below us instead…

Super secret location….I’ve never skied it with such a low snow-pack.

Zippy pressed play on his video Ipod…

Yes…he’s watching Blizzard of Ahhhhhhhs.

Ty’s turn to test his bindings….

Definitely a no-fall zone…there’s a nasty rollover down there.

Zippy finds a line on the lower leg of the couloir…

Amidst some bluetooth…

A marmot came out of the rocks and scared Zippy…

So he had to go straight….

I guess 136mm underfoot can still carve aye?

Ty makes a picturesque turn on a steep slope…

Triple diamond for sure…

Even the new 114mm’s can hold an edge….

Ty traversing under another option…

Our line in the middle, grins all the way around…

Being the first people out there meant a slog back to chair 4…

Still got another run in the saddle…Zippy zippin’

The kid just doesn’t like to go slow…

Lame, even if he almost died flying into those trees…

…END OF TRANSMISSION