Call it a day

With all the fresh snow falling all yesterday and today in South Lake Tahoe, I thought it would be a fantastic pow day.

At a steep resort pointing it.  

No i Don't usually quit if I'm already there.

My local hill will close for the day if it's too cold at times.

Actually one day at Sunshine, they were thinking about temporarily closing a lift due to high winds, it ended up still remaiding open. Let me tell ya it was a bitch to sit on those chairlifts on the way up...Silence the whole way up since you're trying to protect yourself from the wind and snow. haha Thats the worst part of days like those for me...

with that much pow, theres gotta be something fun.  I'd, at least, be doing air re-entries on transitions at the sides of the groomers...yeah, I don't quit when it comes to snowboarding+pow

in your defense, it is early in the season and you just aren't in good enough snow shape yet...wind sounds pretty bogus, too

yesterday was brutal kids.  Just missed getting stuck on a broken lift on slide side at mt. rose, everyone (including those that got roped off the lift, which took almost 2 hours for some people) evac'ed to the lodge and then shuttled out after they did avy control to get the road open.  And then, to top all of that off, I snowbanked my wrangler twice like an idiot coming out of the parking lot . . . thanks for the tow pulls everyone out there!

i was one of the 20 or so chairs they let to the top of Sierra and coming down Castle was just like what you see in the movies with monster pow explosions on these little pillows and blasting through them.  event straight pointing it I got stuck, but the hike out was worth it.  by the time I got out, all but the noob chairs were closed.  I called it a day, but that one run made the whole thing worth it. 

later on a tree top broke off and hit the west bowl chair.  luckily it was only minor injuries and everyone was OK.  it was a rough day to be sure.

Originally posted by kymerj1 A warm day followed by freezing temps over night.  The whole mountain was a mess and nothing was groomed.  I took on run, then I gave up.

Yup, dealt with this at kimberley last year.  They had a total of 10cm of snow in the 2 months prior to us being there, and temps were 10-15 degrees (C) above freezing every day followed by 10-15 degrees below at night.  Terrible coverage, rocks sticking out everywhere, slushy soup for a couple hours during the day and then choppy crust in the morning and late afternoon.  Worst conditions ever.  Since we drove 15 hours to get there and couldn't cancel our rooms & tickets we stuck it out for the whole week and called it quits early on the last day so we could get home early...all in all it was a terrible trip that cost a lot of money!

I've literally ridden to the point where I could barely walk. It was a pow day and my back leg was so tired from leaning back pretty much all day. Stayed there till last chair tho.

Man, i thought pow was the greatest thing... but i guess too much of a good thing isn't always good. I'm from So Cal so all we get is groomers.

Originally posted by PICKLES With all the fresh snow falling all yesterday and today in South Lake Tahoe, I thought it would be a fantastic pow day. This is one meant for taller folks.   Riding in 3 feet of pow, gusts of crazy wind and being 4-foot 9, it was not a fun day to ride.  I did more digging than boarding.  So I called it quits after a few runs.  I was beat! Have you had a day where you threw in the towel due to the weather?  Where were you?

i can sympathize having been in this position before.  it was very similar conditions at sugar bowl and the combo of so much pow and my inexperience had me killing all my energy to dig out, move 3', then digout again, and repeat.  it left me very sore and was not much fun at all.

If it rains here on the ice coast then is way below freezing over night i learned to not bother going the morning after CCCCCCCHHHHGGGGG

I don't normally. Well I haven't been in that bad of conditions I guess. Usually, even if it's storming, I try to get the most runs out of that day.

Yes I called it quits once 2 years ago because it started raining. The rain turned to ice when it hit my goggles,gear, everything. My friend and I went in to take a break because it was annoying. While we were there we saw them stop the lifts for a while due to the conditions. We went out after to try/get back to our car and it was straight ice everywhere.

Last year I went up after a warm day everything was ice, and it wasn't warming up to soften it up.  I hit some ice on a fairly flat spot and slid for 100 ft before I stopped. I called it a day cause my hip was hurting from the fall.

damn, I wish there are fresh pows of my loc mt..literally right now they closed it..they won't re-open until the 25th, possibly even later..went up there Saturday afternoon, had to stop after an hour..raining heavy so bad that it made the ice all slushy..smh.

right now, my friends are in MM..and I'm stuck here at work !

3 feet of pow... call it a day... hell NO!

High winds once blew all the man-made powder off of Bear Mountain and left everyone with some rough, icy conditions. Still rode all day though! Decided to go again the next day and it was perfect, sunny weather. Shredded soft snow all day hitting every jump and box I could find until with an hour left to board, I hit a "rainbow box", got turned backwards and broke my arm on the landing. Now the rest of the season may be lost. The moral: don't complain about powder; it softens f'd up landings!

as long as I'm already at the mtn and the lifts are going, white outs are the only thing that would stop me.  I got caught in one at heavenly after the lifts had already closed and it was scary as hell.

going up the mountain and realizing it's straight ice the entire way down...on every run. A few runs done and I quit. It was not a fun hour drive home