Thoughts on this years coming up season

it will be good cuase there will be skiing involved

it's gotta rain at some point, and if it doesn't come down now, it'll come down later (when it's colder, and as snow on the mountains)... at least i hope so, nicest i've seen it this time of year in these parts.

Hopefully the Park will open up before fucking January this year. They sure took their time clearing the ground underneath it last year, so it should open up quicker this year. Knowing Grouse though....

my thoughts are that its an el ninio season
that meens warm tropic air and little to none of the good arctic stuff. this season isnt gonna be epic
boooooooooooooooo

I've gotta agree this year is going to suck because of warm tropic air screwing with us. Hopefully though we get lucky and it snows like crazy. If not this year is gonna be a bummer.

im tired of all the predictions, if theres snow you'll be on your skis and thats all that matters. your talking about grouse being good? its never good. dont get your hopes up

It's gonna snow. I'll go skiing. It's gonna be sick. I'm going to skip classes for pow days at Whis, bu this time, I won't fail anything or get mono or blow a knee. My thoughts on this season.

grouse is gonna be sooo sick even if the snow isn't the best

my friend has mono. she's had it like all summer. it takes a while to get rid of eh? silly mono.

I managed to get it a SECOND time. Nearly impossible, medically.

Needless to say, I only slept with her once...

I'm thinking slow start both for the mountain oerations and the weather. Grouse tends to let all the christmas tourism happen before any 'minor' mountain operations (like the park). The weather has also been very dry and I think this may be a trend for the next couple more months, with a decent january and march. As for features, I doubt they got anything new, but I hope they actually setup a lot of the rails that were neglected last year. Hopefully they actually use the space that they cleared last summer at the top skiers left and build a decent table there, or a table right at the top middle where it once was. 3 well built tables and a bunch of the rails that weren't used last year and I'd be happy.

Although it will probably never happen, here is my idea of a Grouse park setup. Unfortunately, it would require great efforts from the Park Crew. I remember it was set up something like this three years ago, but back then I couldn't really appriciate it. It goes as follows:

When you enter the park, there is a slight rise up onto a platform of snow, off of which you can drop to get a little extra speed. This would be right beside the little hut on the skier's left. The first feature(s) after this platform would be three jib features, parallel to each other. On the very right (all directions are skier's from here on...) there would be the 20 foot box. On the very left would be the C-Rail, and in between the two there would be the longest flat-bar grouse has (longest I saw last year was 20 feet or something, but I seem to remember something longer). Off to the left, after these features, would be the first table. Decent sized, probably large enough so that you would have to forego the first rails to hit it. Farther down the left, there would be the dual-table that they had in the same spot last season, but larger and not as pathetic. After that, continuing down the left side, there would possibly be another table, but probably not. In the spot where the One-Ball-Jay 40 Foot box was last year, there would be a beautiful step up (we lacked one of those last year)! Npw, going back to the top of the park, starting down the middle and right sides, there would be various jib features, a hip, and possibly a table. Rails that I would like to see on that side or below the final step up are the Pow Gloves Flat down, the Urban Down, The Quicksilver Box, and that Flat-Down Box that they had a few years back (it was painted blue and juding by the pictures was in the Elan Rail Jam). Oh, and of course the notorious down flat down rail. Maybe I'll finally get that this year. :)

Of course that will never happen, it's just wishful thinking. I think my main points in that are:
A. More tables that are well built. (NOT LIKE LAST YEAR THEY WERE BLECH!)
B. A step up. That would be great. I don't know about all of you but I find those fun as hell.

I suggest getting a job and going to Whistler, best decision you will ever make. Grouse blows big chunks.

This season is handplants and fun times all around. Screw learning tricks, lets have some fun. Some good local fun.
Best season ever, even if the snow isn't going to cooperate.

fuck a prediction. seasons gonna be dope, snow will fall. skis will slide, and shit will go off. cant wait to get back on snow

For all you pesemists out there, i will remind you that 1998/99 was an elnino year and my local hill, Mt wash got hit with 1200 cm, I think baker maxed out at 1600 cm that year, so yes it does mean milder temperatures but if it isnt too warm it also means crazy precip, so looks like itll me hit or miss, but im stoked no matter what, mother nature wont extinguish me this year.

baker got more than a thousand inches that winter
and there's about 2.5 cm in an inch
so yea baker got 2500+ cm

sorry dude you're wrong. 97-98 was el-nino and it was below average. It wasn't as bad as 04-05, but it was still below average. Grouse had a max base of 250cm, which for the way grouse lies and exagerates, is low. 98-99 was La Nina, the ocean current that follows the year after El-nino. That current is associated with above average precip and below average temps (what we experienced last year). Intrawest pawns of el-nino as a good thing for marketing purposes, which is ridiculous because it isn't good at all. I've heard this year is supposed to have el-nino elements which is strange becuse 04-05 was an el-nino current (remember those billboards on the sea to sky: "el-nino, back by popular demand", and then the season was the worst ever) and el-nino is supposed to come around every 5-6 years. But I guess we are experiencing global warming trends which, unfortunately, we all need to get used to.

i read something along the lines of "by 2020, whistler will not be able to open..." a few days ago. Pessimistic or realistic???

I dont know were youre basing your info off, but mine is purely from memory so i could be wrong, but i am really quite sure the year of the epic dump Was an el-nino, with an il-nina year following whisch was still not that bad, minus the fucking fog inversion. Plus usually high precip and cold temperatures dont co-exist too often, ie moist warm air coming from the south brings warmer temps. In any case we should get Mark Magrega involved with this.

Graham is secretely a meteorologist, don't question his weather knowledge.

that would suck,,,,,is this actually true anyone know?

concidering we don't know what is going to heppen this winter (or next week even), do you really think anyone can make a statement as strong as "in 13 years whistler is have no snow"

There wont be a winter. everyone sell your gear. winter is over. vancouver gone summer year round. get your skims.

anyone down for a sacrificial circuit session for ullr. freezing cold lynn canyon next weeekend

hahaha. I hope you were kidding. Predicting the future is not an available option in life dude.

No one probably cares, but Manning is going to be one step about completely-fucking-terrible this year.

Except I might be working "park crew" since I dont think I'm allowed to ski and want to be there as much as possible... so like, the only reason to come to manning, is to see me. But I'm conceited, so I'd say that's a pretty good reason.

I'll like, shovel a box for you or some shit. Customize whatever you want because it's pretty likely that if any person actually goes to manning, they'll have the park to themself, so I can be your bitch for a day! woo!

manning wasn't terrible last year after brian got them to fix the park for LOTP.  it wasn't that bad before, but it was great afterwards.

i'll come see you.... maybe.  i might be too busy skiing at whistler lol.  actually, i'm definitely hitting up manning over christmas break and probably for lotp.

so true, there's never anyone in the park at manning.  laura, your first order of business is to build me a stepup.

just kidding... but seriously that would be sick.

I'll use buckets and tiny shovels and make you the best step up in this fair land.

I just hope we get enough snow to ski. I personally don't care if its rocks and slush puddles, I just want to go out and ski. I'll hit up slushy inruns to rails, I did it last year, no complaints here.

thats not true. for the past week or so its been 8 degrees in the early morning and whistler has about 2 inches on it from middle and up. so dont sell your gear.

****was at the biginning of october it all melted

Weak el nino says lots of snow sillyheads. And i trust the farmer's almanace more, aka snow snow snow



Any skiing is good skiing, remember that

with luck they will open the jib park at first snow