Shane Day 2011

By: Greg
March 26, 2011 10:24 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing | 10 Comments | Permalink

In honor of Shane McConkey, the east coast bureau of FIS did some naked pow skiing today.
Lionel Hutz skis pow naked

KC got mostly naked too… we need to keep this SFW after all.
KC skis pow almost naked

Win.
Claiming the win

Who are the best skiers on the mountain? That’s right. These FamousInternetSkiers.


Too much snow – follow up.

By: Sam
March 24, 2011 11:21 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing | 1 Comment | Permalink

Last week I put up a short post with some photos from the middle of a massive storm cycle. Well, the weather finally broke, and we’ve been seeing the sun around town. It was a crazy storm to ski through, it was snowing so much that it was hard to get out. Avalanche danger was high for a very long time and is only now starting to settle out. By the end of it, we’d gotten so sick of skiing the same safe lines that we left town and headed to Rogers Pass for less snow (that TR will be up in a few days).

To give you an idea of just how much snow too much snow was:

The North Cascades Highway will now have its latest opening in 20 years: LINK

The Shuksan Arm slide even bigger than it did during the 1999 winter: LINK

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Thursday Film Zen

By: Greg
March 24, 2011 10:34 am | Category: Skiing, WebiGNARs | 11 Comments | Permalink

In a long overdue sequel to last fall’s Friday Film Zen here’s a short, quick, and zen like video from the East Coast FIS Filming and Moving Pictures Ministry.temp place holder Watch it, dream about the upcoming weekend’s winter weather, and then get back to work… just one more day.

(Note: Most filmography credit goes to KC)

If you want to see more moving pictures check out the Videos section here on FIS. For high quality edits at a professional level that aren’t that 100%-POV-garbage, look to see that “Allen” is the author. His stuff is crazy awesome. (SEE… I told you so!)


LH: Winter’s Back

March 23, 2011 9:54 am | Category: Weather | 7 Comments | Permalink

Enjoy that warm up? I hope so because all signs point to at least a two week return to winter. Starting this week, snow showers, cold temps, northwinds and cloudy days will return. And what a better way to kick off this period than witha nice round of upslope ( aka magic) snow!

Looking at the models and using some of my voodoo powers I’m really liking the period from 00z March 25th thru 16z march 26th. For the uninformed on converting GMT time to Human EST time, that’s the evening of the 24th through midday on the 26th. For those that are uninformed at looking at a calendar, that’s Thursday night thru Sat. morning. If you need more than that I don’t think I can help you. You prob. should have worm a helmet more as a kid and skipped the paint chip desserts.

This period has a nice west/northwest wind to get the cross barrier flow going, very high low level RH (though it could be a tad higher), Strong low level lift (surface thru 5500ft), and very nice temps for snow growth. We are a little far away for the high resolution models to start spitting out QPF data but I’m not a high resolution model. I’d estimate we’re going to deal with enough water to eek out 6-12 across the higher terrain of VT by the end of day saturday.

I’ll keep you updated.


Famous Internet Skier Wins East Coast Supershoot!

March 21, 2011 12:29 pm | Category: Site News, Skiing | 8 Comments | Permalink

Greg won the East Coast Super Shoot photography competition at Stowe Mountain Resort, when his slideshow featuring shots from his action sports portfolio was selected as “Best in Show” on Saturday evening, March 19th, 2011 at the new Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.

The East Coast Supershoot is a competition that brings 5 photographers head to head when they each present 7 minute slideshows featuring their action sports portfolio, and a panel of judges chooses 1 slideshow to be “Best in Show,” and receive a cash prize.

Thanks to Stowe, PocketWizard, Orage, and Burton for sponsoring the event.

Here’s one of the shots from the Supershoot of Mike Beagan telemarking through some untracked cream cheese at Stowe.
Mike Beagan teles some cream cheese

Check back later for more!


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