Slides, Tahoe Sierra 100, Matty mo and the Mamasita

Spent the weekend at kirkwood, in a nut shell it was pretty awesome. Lots of Snow in the Sentinel Bowl and Palisades on Saturday. you really had to Hike to get to the Good stuff, but if you were willing, there were new tracks to be laid down every run.

Saturday night it started puking the winds were blowing hard so we figured it wouldnt be worth heading to kirkwood, but it seemed so beautifull in south lake that when I cleaned the car off we changed are minds and headed down. We a had few runs off of lift 6 which result in some sick deep turns in the sentinel bowl, but shortly after it was put on wind hold. Probably a good thing cause dudes skined up to the palisade bowl and triggered and avalanche. One dude went for a ride and just got banged up real good. We heard the Avy Sirens go off, that was kind of wierd, never heard those before.

We got in the car at around 2 PM to leave, they just opened up 88 East bound from Avy control, so we headed East. We were anticipating going West on 88 up to 89. Its a good thing cause about an hour later, two cars got caught in an avalanche on carson pass, which was in the east bound direction. Everyone was OK, but that would have ruined the trip.

Monday 3 other skiers kicked off a slide in the same place, I think this area was opend by patrol at this point. Only one guy got caught in the slide, and he made it out OK with a punctured lung.

Any way on a lighter note, Matt is getting his blog on at www.mattmorr.blogspot.com so look him up.


Also, got my confirmation Email from Jimmyboy at the Tahoe sierra 100. They are really going out of there way to accomadate out of state racers, so come out and race!
Oh and pulled the triger on my New Salsa Mamasita Frame, thanks to Salsa for supporting the bikman team, can't wait to start building her up.