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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 7, 2020 21:07:06 GMT
Ferguson Ridge in the Wallowas -- I realize you don't know where the $#%^ the Wallowas of Eastern Oregon actually are, but that's kinda the point. Chief Joseph country, sacred ground. 10,00 foot peaks ..Beauty like the Canadian Rockies but surrounded by dry Big-Sage country and on the breaks of Hells Canyon. It's my country. Grew up 2 hrs. from here. Ferguson RidgeTop of the T-bar looking toward Hell's Canyon and across to Idaho.. ( Hell's Canyone is deeper than the Grand Canyon, just sayin'.. ) ( You're too good to ski here? Ok, so $%#@ you, who cares? Though the snow is usually quite dry, it's just skiing -like all skiing- but the beauty is unusual..trust me. )
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Post by T-rock on Oct 8, 2020 0:03:59 GMT
Near hawaii gorge?
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 8, 2020 3:43:10 GMT
10 miles from Joseph, Oregon T-rock.. 12 miles or so from Wallowa Lake.
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Post by TM on Oct 8, 2020 11:33:20 GMT
Always liked reading about Chief Joseph....Looking around and see no snow...But....TM
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Post by teledance on Oct 8, 2020 12:32:48 GMT
Turner and one I skied back when it still had the longest T-bar over a mile long with 2000' of gain.
Drove by what was Rocky Mtn High one fall day, since renamed Teton in the Northern Rockies of Montana, supposed to have great BC maybe this winter.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 10, 2020 14:55:58 GMT
Ha, yea, Turner qualifies as obscure and odd. There are virtually no green runs! It really reminds me of the east face of Mount Spokane, but it's really small, though lots of easily-accessed SC tree skiing. Groups can rent the mountain!( The base elevation is a bit low, at least until mid-December, but @ 6k at the summit, it generally should have good coverage 1000 feet up. A nice vertical drop.)
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Post by teledance on Oct 11, 2020 14:23:07 GMT
When we got to the top this sweet older woman smiles and tells us she considers each lap equal to covering 3 miles on the legs, out of our group of 5 telemarkers I put in the most runs and I only got 6 laps in, but we did have a foot of powder that day. Someday I will go back and enjoy the chair lift.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 13, 2020 16:06:33 GMT
Another Clasic: Badger Mountain on the Waterville Plateau. Really odd, in a hilled area that is forested and isolated in the farm country of the Columbia Basin. Another volunteers' work of love. A pom and a couple rope tows. Snow has been an issue in recent years.
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Post by teledance on Oct 14, 2020 13:22:49 GMT
Loop Loop, we should go there on a closed day.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 17, 2020 13:29:53 GMT
Would be fun for a spring ski..Also Silver and Lookout give us 2 free days.. Elevation is a bit low at the base. Guessing they open mid-December. Cold air does get trapped in that general area so maybe they open earlier. Loop Loop..By Omak and Twisp
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Post by cunningstunts on Oct 17, 2020 22:11:17 GMT
If it weren't for the elevation and number of conifers, I'd guess that Loop Loop was in NY. That layout looks very similar to our small ski resorts. Except we usually have a majority blue runs... Hunt Hollow is a great little semi-private ski area I used to live right next to. In fact, it's the first place I ever tried DH. Also first place I ever saw a telemark skier. The skiers right of the mountain is quite steep and the trails are on the narrow side by today's standards. FUN! They don't have snowmaking on all those trails though, and you have to have a good year to be able to ski them... which, it seems, is becoming more and more rare at these small places. Last time I skied here it was pretty rough. During a thaw and being a small place not much open, a lot of bare spots, and not great grooming i.e. lots of glare ice in the shade. It is what it is though... ski industry is going down in this area and most of these small places that have held on will die in the next 10-15 years, I'd guess.
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Post by shenanagains on Oct 18, 2020 0:05:45 GMT
I'm enjoying this thread. My plan for the coming winter includes seeking out these small ski areas, though sadly there are none really close by.
Last. year I spent International Telemark Day at Hurricane Ridge on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Great place, wish it was more accessible.
Loup Loup is on my list, as is Sitzmark, Badger Mountain. Bluewood... Everything in Washington and Idaho. I just need more time off work.
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Post by teledance on Oct 18, 2020 14:32:37 GMT
I'm enjoying this thread. My plan for the coming winter includes seeking out these small ski areas, though sadly there are none really close by. Last. year I spent International Telemark Day at Hurricane Ridge on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Great place, wish it was more accessible. Loup Loup is on my list, as is Sitzmark, Badger Mountain. Bluewood... Everything in Washington and Idaho. I just need more time off work. Did you look at the Indy Pass? Got White Pass, Mission Ridge, and 49N, plus several in Idaho, Brundage, Silver, and Lost Trail. I'd give a tour of Silver.
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Post by LoveRonnyRavenSC! on Oct 18, 2020 15:59:21 GMT
I'd come along at Silver ( Td usually has some pass I mooch off him and we go to Silver late season when it just opens weekends -- 35 bux usually ) and you would have to ski Lookout -inbounds and our favorite steeper bump runs plus SC stashes. Bluewood is really small and mellow..Nice lodge and friendly people.. What impressed me is it is really surrounded with a lot of big open meadows and a cat to get you to them if you like. Lots of great SC/BC sking around there if you earn it.
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Post by shenanagains on Oct 18, 2020 20:30:04 GMT
TD, the Indy Pass is on my to do list. My local ski area, Stevens Pass, is going to be a shitshow this year and I opted out of buying a pass while there was a discount, I expect to be mostly BC this year with how ever many road trips I can get in East of the Cascades. So far the only Eastern Washington ski area. I've actually skied is Mission Ridge. Tried Sitzmark last year but the day I was there it didn't open.
If I'm in in your area I'll let you knoe, thanks!
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