likely this one https://www.virtika.com/product/signature-jacket-backwoods/

Virtika. Amazing w sleeves that zip off to turn it into a vest. Super warm.

That's it!

Do all their jackets have that feature? I may have you buying me bibs AND a jacket for myself next year

Yup. One of the best features.

BIG vest guy up here in MN

I want to know about the mini bar Panda is packing!

Ha, I used to pack a few cans of beer and would stick one in the show and then go rip a couple runs. I'd come back and it'd be nice and cold. Usually would do this near where the resorts had the beach chairs set up and I'd go hang out and drink a beer and eat my kind bar lunch.

You can fit an egregious amount of booze in these jackets

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0JndmVuDpQ/?igsh=NmJiYWZiY2E0Mg==

WC is reporting 24" in the last 24 hours. Still snowing and I think supposed to snow all night again.

How is everywhere else doing?

Looks like Telluride has only had an inch or two in last 24 - but it's been snowing pretty good for the last few hours and will supposedly pile up over the next day or so.

MAS444 said:

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Looks like Telluride has only had an inch or two in last 24 - but it's been snowing pretty good for the last few hours and will supposedly pile up over the next day or so.

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Yeah webcams at Telluride and Purg look like they're both getting dumped on pretty well right now.

Finishing my shift and I'll post a report. Southern Colorado is getting slammed. Wife is in Ridgway and says it isn't snowing but WC is getting crushed. Curious on Purgatory.

Edit to add: Sneffels is catching snow. Supposed to snow all night into tomorrow. And then Tuesday night - next Monday morning. Hope she gets home…

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I'll be staying in Hood River on Wednesday night. Looks like it has a ton of restaurants and breweries to choose from. Any favorites?

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If coming from PDX, Thunder Island Brewing in Cascade Locks or Sugarpine Drive-In in Troutdale are awesome.

In HR, Pfriem and Ferment are heavy brewery hitters and both on the waterfront (if you have kidos, Pfriem has a to-go window so you can brew while your kids play at the waterfront park). Broder Soder in the Hood River Hotel for brunch.

Celilo for schwank.

Cross the river to White Salmon, WA for Henni's cocktails or Everybody's Brewery.

Solera Brewery is a cool one off 35 in Parkdale on the way to Meadows.

Meadows owns a small, single lift hill called Cooper Spur. 15 min from Hood River Meadows and the Crooked Tree Tavern is pretty awesome for the deep snow, mountain log cabin vibe. Really cool skinning from there too if you're into backcountry (Tilly Jane A-Frame).

Speaking of Hood River Meadows (HRM), you coming from HR is the hero move. Park there and take the HRM up. Closer and less lines compared to the main / Sunrise lots and you feed straight into Star/Heather/Private Reserve.

Need a new neck gaiter for a female- what's the best?

Phunkshun or Locale are my favorites

NWS issued rare blizzard warning for Cascades for the next 48 hours.

Wacky week. We've got the bomb cyclone hammering Vancouver Island and a tight gradient across WA/OR + cold air. My house is 60mph peak winds on Tuesday.

And then the Arctic air gets here. We'll see, but Meadows had 26" this weekend and 3-4' forecasted by Friday. Add 80mph winds and we'll see what spins early this week.

Looking forward to Tues and then Thurs.

Both the European and GFS models are converging that there is going to be some good surprises (cold, chill, maybe snow even in the metros) all across the areas, both lower and higher elevations.

Where abouts are you? User leads CA, but you mention Cascades, NorCal?

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Where abouts are you? User leads CA, but you mention Cascades, NorCal?

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seattle (C-@-L)

Dope, got it now. I office at 5th and Pike. Take the train up once a month.

You guys have a better chance than us with metro snow. Good luck!

Roads in Glenwood are slicker than owl ***** Be careful driving out there today. 18mph winds expected today in Vail as the next system starts to move in for tomorrow afternoon/night.

Snow totals across the state are increasing. Sumco expected 15 over 10 (both hills)

Eagle CO - 27 over 10

Snowmass - 22 over 10

Telly & Purg: 29 over 10

WC: 34!

SS: 48!

So yeah Sumco needs it bad and Eagle does too after skiing yesterday. BUT, should be back to average after this storm or below for Sumco but way less below:

Steamboats ripping, WC, ripping, Sun Juan's doing there thing.

Hopefully we can build on this on 70 corridor because we still need 3-4ft in spots but this will help fill things in after the snow received the last 5 days. We were saying we needed 2-3 2-3ft dumps and this is shaping up as two of those for Eagle county and like 1-1.5 for Sumco. So, big help but some more would be great.

Very helpful and timely for me as I'm planning on buying my first skis this year in Telluride. Any advice or recommendations? I'm 6'1 and a very intermediate skier. I mainly ski blue groomers but would like to possibly push it just a little bit as I start to ski more (didn't really ski growing up)....and try to keep up with our kids as they pass us up (we started them very early). This will be my only pair of skis for now so will use them in powder, ice, etc...whatever the conditions may be. But will mainly be used in Telluride and nearby.

Any recs on brands, models, size, shape, etc.?

Will be purchasing at Bootdoctors/Christies in MV.

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Here's a really good chart for ski widths across conditions along w ski length by ski type and ability level along with a description of what I keep talking about w turn radiuses and ski profiles.

I thought you guys would find them interesting.







I'm 172.8 cm and my all mountain skis are 181s, my middle all mountain POW set is a 184, and my POW setup is a 188. So that's charts pretty damn accurate.

Edited to add: for the side cut, when it uses hourglass, you can substitute parabolic if you remember those days. More parabolic, tighter TR, less parabolic = longer.

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Thanks for posting. This is very helpful.

Nice! Yall've got a ton more than Telluride has just up the road. Crazy how that works.

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Nice! Yall've got a ton more than Telluride has just up the road. Crazy how that works.

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I think the main snowbands missed us. It snowed all day and last night but very small crystals. Radar didn't snow any moisture…. I think These clouds just parked on top of us and puked all night.

Boot Drs! Love them! Let me think on that one. Those are my guys.

Back of the envelope I'd say a partial TT anywhere from 174-180.

JP, any more thoughts on those goggles?

What does TT mean?

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Very helpful and timely for me as I'm planning on buying my first skis this year in Telluride. Any advice or recommendations? I'm 6'1 and a very intermediate skier. I mainly ski blue groomers but would like to possibly push it just a little bit as I start to ski more (didn't really ski growing up)....and try to keep up with our kids as they pass us up (we started them very early). This will be my only pair of skis for now so will use them in powder, ice, etc...whatever the conditions may be. But will mainly be used in Telluride and nearby.

Any recs on brands, models, size, shape, etc.?

Will be purchasing at Bootdoctors/Christies in MV.

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My old man yells at clouds soapbox for one second: all ski marketing nowadays says bigger is better. People who ski once every other year getting pushed into big mountain, great fat powder skis, and I'd venture to guess that at least 75% of the people I know and see on mountain have skis for the conditions they want rather than what they actually see. The other 25% are race kids.

My daily driver is a 76 waist, and I can take those into any terrain I know I hit, including trees and some limited side country. I take them out west, and if we get a massive dump, I just know I'll demo something fat for that day.

My first skis were awesome when I was just about in your category, and about your height: Rossignol Experience 88s. If you end up riding a lot, you'll get to the point where you'll want more of a hard-charger, but maybe not if you're going out occasionally, zooming around the front side with family.

Personally, I think 93 is about as wide as you want if you're sticking to groomers and maybe other conditions now and again. I've demoed the Head Kores, Nordica Enforcers, Volkl Mantras that are all really highly thought of in that 93 category, and they were all fun and a little different in their own ways.

Disclaimer: I'm an east coast mogul enthusiast (masochist anyone?), I look at most ungroomed, chopped up stuff as bump practice, and I detune the back 1/3 of my skis to get the tail release I want. The conditions and 21M turn radius are mitigated by my personal style preference and ski set up. It's probably a safe bet that my background is definitely more front-side focused than the folks here huckin double backflips off big cliffs in Little Cottonwood Canyon (although I am super jealous of them).