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Snow Watch 07/08

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kevywevy
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Well... Sean has been bugging me to do this...


SNOQUALMIE...
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Alpental
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West
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a very handy site for up-to-date road condtions on snoqualmie...
http://i90.atmos.washington.edu/roadview/i90/


STEVENS...
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a very handy site for up-to-date road conditions on stevens...
http://i90.atmos.washington.edu/roadview/sr2/


CRYSTAL...
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MT. RAINER FROM PARADISE
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FORECAST AND RADAR
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Oct 1 2007 8:37PM
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Schoening
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http://flickr.com/photos/wsdot/

theres a link to some pictures on the passes
Feb 10 2008 6:26PM
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skibum193
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jesus.... i didnt think tunnel creek could slide to the road.
Feb 10 2008 10:36PM
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skier_boy26
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remember that avy path i showed you when we were burning the pineapple? yea, i thought that was big when that happened, but never thought it could just eat the highway. Probably just the combination of really low snowlevels, tons and tons of snow, and a nice gulley or some shit.
Feb 10 2008 10:46PM
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coolhandluke
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those WSDOT pics are fucking nuts
Feb 11 2008 1:23AM
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hUcKbUnNi3
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I thought the exact same thing when I saw those pictures. Pretty crazy.
Feb 11 2008 4:25AM
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SGLogi
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link?
i looked but i couldn't find
Feb 11 2008 12:31PM
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coolhandluke
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uh

http://flickr.com/photos/wsdot/
Feb 11 2008 1:20PM
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bigbuds
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Anybody know of the rain made it to stevens over the weekend? Shit's been close for a couple days and they open on the best day possible. Hope it's stays cold.
Feb 11 2008 2:20PM
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coolhandluke
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nwac telemetry station at top of skyline chair crept above freezing saturday midday
Feb 11 2008 3:48PM
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Literature
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Daymn, that truck got owned. Lucky driver.
Feb 11 2008 5:30PM
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skier_boy26
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it rained the wee hours of sunday morning.
Feb 11 2008 5:48PM
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kevywevy
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i am so pissed! so much new fucking snow!!! amaizing! but the passes were always closed so i didn't get to ski any of it... now its raining. HOW LAME!
Feb 11 2008 10:26PM
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skier_boy26
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ummmmm, from powdermag...

"On Saturday, Stevens bombed the slopes rising up from the road via the use of a M60A3 tank (featured in December 2007 issue of Powder) firing massive 105mm howitzer shells. One shot, particularly, caused a massive slide all the way down to the road producing THESE RESULTS.end paragraph

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-150-foot high powder cloud
-15-18-foot crown"
and more
Feb 11 2008 11:19PM
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skibum193
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holy jesus....
Feb 12 2008 12:24AM
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P.J.S.
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That was fucking insane, never knew they had a tank available for avalanche control.
Feb 12 2008 12:55AM
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cobra_commander
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they have two.
Feb 12 2008 1:11AM
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coolhandluke
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yeah we're the only ones to have any tanks for avy work.  most places used to use recoilless rifles (75 and 105, but now 106mm), although now everyone's moving to "newer" technologies like the avalauncher and whatnot.  even though those cost 20 times more per round. 

nothing beats a good ol artillery barrage.  move forward, draw fire, move back, call in artillery strike, wipe em out, move forward and repeat.
Feb 12 2008 2:20AM
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Schoening
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Feb 12 2008 9:12AM
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Literature
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It's like, "Fuck communing with nature. We're gonna bring in the tanks."
Feb 12 2008 12:33PM
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bigbuds
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Shits so crazy... There's numerous places that had slid down to 2 with trees still sticking almost out in the road. Got stoped for something, amusing it was control work about 9:30. Sure sucks to have have the Mtn closed for 5 days of too much snow then it freaking pisses rain before they open and it all turned to shit. Even 7th was beyond crapy today. No park. But I'm holding out for the 10in possible overnight. Come on POW.
Feb 12 2008 9:21PM
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prophet
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snows done. hows central park?
Feb 12 2008 10:57PM
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SushiMan
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top part of central was closed not there, haha a patroller was sitting there because so many people went through it (features were are put away though). The lower part, the pipe was open and not too bad, dumped rained before i got there so it was slush but it was a lot of fun.
everything is pretty much the same as last week otherwise
Feb 13 2008 2:13AM
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prophet
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havent been there yet, ive got a crystal pass with the 10 free days there or something like that
Feb 13 2008 2:15AM
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Skillz
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The two bottom hits are money, and the pipe is pretty dec.
Feb 13 2008 2:40PM
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prophet
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so, i havent actually bothered to ski snoqualmie park in like 5 years cause ive been in canada mostly... but apparently they got their shit together cuase it sucks way less now.
Feb 14 2008 11:54PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Last Friday was fucking ridiculous and one week later its bleah.
Feb 15 2008 12:50AM
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TannerBalls
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baker has their super park set up for this weekend
Feb 15 2008 12:11PM
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mtbakerteacher
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Yessss!!!
Feb 15 2008 1:13PM
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Jamie_Baril
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super park?? is there anything special happening?

Feb 15 2008 3:33PM
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coolhandluke
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initial forecast for presidents day week is lowering temps and precip. 

any bets on if the temps will be below freezing when the precip hits?
Feb 15 2008 7:03PM
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Elijah.
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No it's just the 8 park.
Feb 15 2008 7:53PM
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Literature
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Fools bets, maybe.

Rainy up at Snoqualmie this afternoon, but that makes for killer park skiing.
Feb 16 2008 12:23AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Cookies 'n crud, park all ice from weekend use.
Feb 17 2008 3:05AM
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cobra_commander
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no clouds between whistler and here when I drove down.
Feb 17 2008 7:50PM
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coolhandluke
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weather's on menopause........all dried up
Feb 27 2008 8:43PM
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Literature
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I really need a powder fix. Come on, the weather has to get better some time....
Feb 28 2008 3:32AM
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prophet
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road trip. check whistlers saturday forecast.....
Feb 28 2008 4:17AM
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cobra_commander
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If I am heading back up to whister I need some one else to drive. not drivng my car back up there affter two weeks ago.
Feb 28 2008 11:03AM
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coolhandluke
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i see 15-20 cm on friday and 5cm on saturday

are we hurting that bad for snow to get a boner over 5cm of new?
Feb 28 2008 11:53AM
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zerospinskier
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Dude were you stuck in the road closure too? It took us 13 hours to get from seattle to whistler.
Feb 28 2008 4:47PM
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ShreddingthaGnar
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Oh hell yeah! I was dooling over the NOAA report at school all today.
Feb 28 2008 6:03PM
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cobra_commander
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no I went up a day or two before that. my car broke down on I-5 in bham.
Feb 28 2008 6:22PM
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RudyGarmisch
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This is what I have to say for the weekend forecast.

POOP.
Feb 28 2008 11:29PM
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coolhandluke
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NOAA says 2-4 inches at Stevens on Friday!  Oh my!  Everyone get their powder boards ready!
Feb 28 2008 11:35PM
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Scott~
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At this point Im not going to complain...
Feb 29 2008 12:11AM
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masterexploder
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dude that limo accident was gnarllllly. one of the wheels from the other car was basically 3 blocks away from the car itself
Feb 29 2008 1:24AM
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prophet
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it did say 20-30. still gonna be better than here you sallies.
Feb 29 2008 1:13PM
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coolhandluke
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NOAAs got rhymes:

WEATHER SYNOPSIS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
If you think winter’s over, you’re in for surprise,
And a storm late today should open your eyes.
Though bonds initially may be good to a crust,
With strong winds and showers, wind slabs are a must.

So if you’re fixing to go for a ride,
Best check the layering to see what’s inside.
Variations in wind speed or snowfall rate,
May make the stability not that great.

Soft surface snow may be powder to you,
But to buried weak layers it’s a good slab stew.
And watch the sun for breaks after a shower,
As March sun changes stability by the hour.
Feb 29 2008 2:33PM
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N.Skinner
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haha I really liked that
Feb 29 2008 2:38PM
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SGLogi
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haha i LOLed hard
Feb 29 2008 3:07PM
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