Silvertip's Playground 09

[PowderCrew]

Well, thought I would jump over to the Cali side once more and share our season in the Rubies with ya' all. Gotta' give props to Smasher, he gave me "the clip" of the season... never did top it. Hope to see you guys on your mountain next season...

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=60289352

 

[silvertip]

Well, thought I would jump over to the Cali side once more and share our season in the Rubies with ya' all. Gotta' give props to Smasher, he gave me "the clip" of the season... never did top it. Hope to see you guys on your mountain next season...

I couldn't get the link to work so I got this one off your Elko post.Cool Ruby Riding by PowderCrew

 

[silvertip]

On Sat I rode with Bev and Eric out of Webber Lake. Our friend Charlie was at the closer sign and he let us park at his house. A big THANK YOU to Charlie for that. Saved us a mile of pavement. AO and Shane were there also. It was nice to see Shane back up and riding again. Sorry we missed Jessie and Isac. Talk to AO and sounded like they had a good ride also. We rode over to French Lake and back around to White Rock and had a great ride. A little bit of dirt on the way out the Meadow Lake Rd but not bad. We didn't have any going in to Jones Valley but it was very thin. With the heat we had Sunday and today it will have lots of bare ground now. Did 52 mi and had a great time.

We only seen a guy and gal @ Meadow Lake and we seen the sicks track climbing up the Black Buttes out of French. They had to of come in while we were @ Jones Valley play. No one else was at the staging area when we left. I think I know who it had to be but would not want to say till I find out.

Webber Lake

Sierra Buttes and Jackson Mdw Res.

French Lake

Sick Climb And I mean SICK

 

[silvertip]

On Sunday Eric and I rode over there. You know where that is don't you???
Another great day of riding. Still lots of snow if you can get to it. We rode in a little different way than I did on Thr. not as much dirt. Almost 45 miles again on Sunday. And didn't see a sole. The end of this yr. is going great for riding.
Staging Area

Less Snow

Nice Area

Castle and Basin Pks

Lots Of Snow Out Of Cisco

 

[silvertip]

Tragedy on 14 May 09 GREAT Ride

First off a BIG THANK YOU TO DSK

He lead me on another GREAT ride out of Tragedy.
The snow is getting very sun cupped and thier is not a lot of snow in same areas.

Here are a few of my Pic.
Staging Area

Looking at Tragedy

Big Lake

Bear River

 

[donnersnowking]

Great day for me to end the season. Spectacular scenery and good Boondocking with some good climbs in the trees. Thank you John for coming down to ride with me.

Awesome spring day in the Sierras.

DSK..

 

[King o the Hill]

John.... sorry we missed you and the crew Saturday to know we were a hilltop apart argh... I heard you all had an awesome day as well.... I hope I can "borrow" some of your space here..... what an awesome day!

Well I got a rescue ride from the monster-in-law! Tony Sallaberry and Doug "Snowdevil" twisted my arm after helping tend to my wife for the last few good weeks of the year into one of the better rides I have had all year. A couple of good pokes to get the adrenaline flowing again and felt like a million bucks. We hit Castle, Paradise Valley, Devils Oven and various points in between. here are some shots and I even had a screamer pull.... the beat the chest pull Thanks guys and I got to tell ya Dougs cat is HANDS DOWN the cleanest and most flawless turbo I have seen to date... I guess all the tinkering around with his experimental 1000 paid off.... nice machine Doug!

Well this was my sreamer pull doesn't look too steep but when you look at the other shots it was a tight one for sure.... the one to the right is Tony's pull and he started it out.... Dougs is below and had some serious gappers to jump to get to the top of Devils Oven.... then we were off !!!! Tony's line the "line engineer"....

I forgot to add just for the sake of painting a better picture (no punn in tended) this picture and the one of my line and Doug's line is comprised of 3 separate 10MB pictures stitched together vertically.... they were steep and long!

They wouldn't let me go back down to shoot the "chute" so crayons and lies have to do for now LOL

Tony's line the "line engineer"....

Better picture of Susie's hill.... had to pay a "respect" visit

 

[King o the Hill]

Notice Tony's foot position...... and this is at 6.5 frames ps.... he was well over 80 and pulling this wheelie

Anthony and various other frontal lobe candidates play hill.... FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T THINK IT WAS STEEP.... righhhhht

 

[King o the Hill]

 

[mattymac]

sweet pix!

 

[jimh]

that line machine that tony pulled is the same chute that Chadds buddy (tyler from santa rosa) rolled his sled down... doh...

 

[donbrown]

Vey Very nice pulls !!! Looks like la full load of fun

 

[donnersnowking]

Thanks for the sweet pics Jeff. Have a good summer.

 

[silvertip]

One More Ride

After riding Friday I was able to talk the crew into one more ride. We had very little dirt and lots of snow up high. We did meet two other riders up on top of Sand Ridge. The snow is getting very rough and sun cupped.

A few Pic from both days.
Basin & Castle Pk

Cool Clouds

Marker Tree 22 May 09 Still close to 3 ft of snow here. But just a little ways off DIRT

Signal Pk

Devils Pk & Snow Mtn

Sand Ridge Lake

Magonigal Summit

 

[donbrown]

Very nice indeed.

Is this a "normal amount" of snow on the ground for this time of the year ???

 

[Anthony Oberti]

Cool John!!! Glad you got out again with the crew!!

 

[silvertip]

Very nice indeed.

Is this a "normal amount" of snow on the ground for this time of the year ???

Don,
It's about average where we're unloading, but up high I think it's above normal. But we will lose our access in a week or so.

 

[PowderCrew]

Don,
It's about average where we're unloading, but up high I think it's above normal. But we will lose our access in a week or so.

Well... it looks like you guys outlasted the Ruby crew by "a week or so"!