Zippin’ the Calm Before the Storm, KW – 01/18/10

Zippin’ the Calm Before the Storm, KW – 01/18/10

Date:

January 17th-18th, 2010

Location: Kirkwood, California, USA

Weather: Wind, snow, wind, and some snow….

Skiers:

Skier666, Shugs, SuPu, Jrosen32, skimoore, GDS, and of course, ZIPPY!

Photo Journalists:

666, Zippy, and Shugs.

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Music: Marcus Intalex – ‘Entropy’

Synopsis:

Well, the biggest storm since the age of time has been in the forecast for the awhile now, so plans were made to ski pow as the storm hit on Sunday and Monday. Apparently, Sunday skied the same as Friday and Saturday but with more moguls and the absence of sunshine. Eventually, the storm decided to hit on Saturday afternoon, lag until Monday morning, and then hit hard right at the moment when a logistical decision had to be made.

Game Start!:

This is California in January…..

….you see, our hills are green only in the winter….

While I sat in traffic on Friday, Zippy takes a POV before dropping in on OIE…

Silicon Valley is full of creepy computer shops to visit during lunch…..

After work, Bay Area people play with tech. Here our little guy playing his first Japanese Shooter…..yep….in TATE mode. So proud of him….

Shugs and I decided to depart the next day at butt-thirty, so we had a night on the town…

We grabbed a couple glasses of Michelob Ultra….as it was my 73rd b-day, so we had to go big!

5 AM. Push the Time Warp button to Kirkwood…

Under 3 hours and we’re on the Spur….

Skimoore, now residing in Paris, showed up while we enjoyed our breakfast…

Shugs grabs some fresh windbuff in Ski School….

Iphone action shot of the 6’er to prove he was alive…

Gds is a young ripper ….yes, he’s in High School….

Shugs finds an exposed line near Waterfall…

Zippy was on fire today…skiing everything but snow…

Have you ever aired a Cornice onto a steep face in a hurricane? Zippy has…

“Twister II” starring SuPu…

Zippy Zippin…

Zippy shows that the Palisades have some hidden zones…

Jrosen32 gets some support for hitting the 100 footer…

Near Little Jims, Jrosen32 gets triple black diamond…

He cautiously searches for obstacles…

…and proceeds to test the LZ.

Zippy straightlines the whole thing…

Skimoore eating the gnarbar…

Jrosen32 back in the Fingers…

Meanwhile Zippy locates a double stager…

Boom!

As the storm approaches, Zippy hits Oops EP with style…

SuPu on week old untracked….

Zippy in Palisades….

And then came the 2 hour drive to South Lake…this guy is almost ice fishing from his car…

Carson Pass was even more eventful..

Oh my….the chaos that can ensue from a couple inches of snow….

Spur looked like this heading west on Monday after our one epic run on THE WALL!!!!

B R I N G

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ON

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THE

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SNOW!