Kirkwood, CA Conditions Report: Sendable Cement Kirkwood is getting caked with boat loads of snow and things just keep on getting better. To hit the break between storms, I drove up 88 early Friday morning in order to get first tracks on chair 6 from the 18″ of fresh that fell overnight. To my dismay, the spur section of 88 had been closed all night. There were several cars parked outside the gate that must have been there all night based on the foot and a half of snow on the roofs. Bevan Waite | January 21, 2016 3 Comments
Kirkwood, CA Conditions Report: Side Country Slaying The nice thing about Kirkwood is that it can be days after a storm has rolled through and you can still find fresh tracks… if you put a little bit of effort in. I warmed up on the main drag down Chair 6 and then promptly moved to the traverse from Sentinel bowl to the palisades. That’s where the real fun started. Surprisingly, even though el nino driven storms originate from the warmer central pacific, it had stayed cold (8 degrees when I arrived in the morning). This preserved the quality of the snow and made for fluffy rides through cut up pow in the early morning. Backcountry Bevan Waite | January 13, 2016 3 Comments
Kirkwood, CA Conditions Report: Epic Awesomeness It has been snowing at Kirkwood consistently since Thursday. A few inches here, a few inches there.. its adding up to some awesome days at the mountain. I arrived at 8am Saturday and got in line expecting the line to explode with people yearning for first tracks. Surprisingly, not many people showed up before the lifts opened. In fact not many people showed up at all on SATURDAY (Sunday was the same…). The place was empty. I barely waited in any line the whole day. Bevan Waite | December 21, 2015 0 Comments
Kirkwood, CA Conditions Report: Knee Deep But Rocky Tahoe had a killer weekend last week. 40” of snow fell from Thursday to Sunday on average around the area. Kirkwood was particularly amazing on Friday Dec. 11th. Low crowds, and copious amounts of snow were the defining features of the day. I arrived around 10 am and was on the mountain at 10:30. I thought I’d missed my chance to get first tracks anywhere, but I was fantastically mistaken. I followed some skiers on the traverse through Sentinel bowl into the Palisades and to my surprise, the Palisades were barely skied at that point. Bevan Waite | December 17, 2015 2 Comments
Bagging Peaks in the Aspen Snowmass Backcountry Morgan Boyles and Jake Sakson go big linking up two of Aspen’s big faces in one push. With over 20 miles and 10,000 feet of skiing the team tops it off by skiing each 3000 foot line top to bottom without stopping. This video represents the fusion of […] Backcountry Bevan Waite | February 16, 2015 0 Comments
Mt. Bachelor Conditions Report | A Bit Hard, A Bit Fun This last weekend started with high hopes of making some creamy spring turns from the top of Mt. Bachelor.From a distance, the mountain looked ready for prime shredding, yet little did we know that the looks we got from the car were completely, utterly deceiving.Our first run might have been one of the most disappointing I’ve had in a while; it was an ice rink.I might have been better off with speed skates than skis. Conditions Report Bevan Waite | February 3, 2015 1 Comment
Mt. Hood Conditions Report | Spring Day in “Juneuary” For the dedicated skiers in Oregon, January ( Juneuary ) never seems to be a good month. To wrap up the general trend, the Cascades are dumped on in mid-late december enough to hold a base to open the ski areas. When Juneuary finally comes around, the snow coverage on the 1st of the year is the best coverage the mountains will have for exactly one month, 31 days, or 744 hours. The conditions range in severity from ice-rink-hard to mashed potatoes, Cascade concrete, and slurpie slush. Does this suck? Yes and no. Yes because, well, skiing pow would certainly be much better. No because despite the sub par conditions, the […] Conditions Report Bevan Waite | January 27, 2015 0 Comments
Upcoming Telemark Freeride Camps Telemark professionals Paul Kimbrough and Jake Sakson, have dominated the telemark freeride scene for the past half-decade. These backcountry ski film stars, made famous in the Powderwhore movies, have dedicated themselves to developing telemark technique, avalanche awareness and backcountry travel skills. The two have hosted several Telemark freeride camps in the Rockies. This year, they are offering two camps, one […] Bevan Waite | January 23, 2015 0 Comments
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