An amazing adventure for both of you. Amazing! I admire your stubbornness :)
Yes, wet and heavy snow is the worst there is. Combine it with 100% humid air and you get what you've got - tons of snow sticking to your board.
I remember similar conditions years ago when I was a timekeeper at a local skiing event. It was half a meter of wet snow overnight day and we were checking if it's possible to have a race. Skiing down I followed the track that snowplow made minutes before. When I turned off the track I was almost catapulted out of my boots. No way you could ski down in these conditions even on the steepest slope. We immediately decided to cancel the race and went to dry ourselves in a hut. The teams were waiting on our decision in the valley so the didn't have to drive up to the slopes. I guess they were quite happy the race was cancelled :)
Again, a great feat you two did!
Yeah man, I should have known it would be bad. It was pretty apparent. I was fooled by my room mate's review that the "snow up top" was really good; not thinking about where he had been riding that day as opposed to where I was going. He chose to ride the lifts, and the only one still operating now gets a lot more shade whereas this peak is just hammered by the sun all day. Obviously there wasn't much sun this day but what it did mean is that since that side of the mountain had closed all the snowmaking snow had already disappeared and the ground had thawed; so it was just baked garbage on top of warm earth; warming it through and through.
Part of the reason I spent so much time drying off up top is I wanted my base to be dry so there was no initial moisture to fix to. I should have thought that one through more because now it's obvious to me I was screwed either way haha
Good thing you cancelled that race! It sounds pretty similar to Friday's snow and.. well... yeah. No one was making it down that trail hahaha.
Thanks for the cross post/reblog Ervin! Much appreciated. I had thought of posting it in the Freestyle sports community but I figured I would wait to post some actual directly-related content.. I.E. snowboarding photos and videos. I have a friend with a bunch of footage I'm urging that he sends to me for that specific purpose.. but he's saving it for an edit so I'll have to wait for him to give in.
Great that you are convincing your friend to join.
Yes, video editing. Yesterday, for Niko's backflip, ... the coach sent me the 7 seconds long movie by email. I wanted to cut out the first two seconds because of the background noise. It took me half an hour to do it in the quality I wanted it to be, and post it to Instagram.
Sometimes, many times, we over-complicate things :)
Oh trust me I know haha. I've spent hours just trying to piece together a couple of clips. I used to be much more into filming and editing and the amount of frustration I've experienced even just trying to get a few seconds right hahhaa. It's a tough process!
What tools are you using now?
I am on Windows and using Shotcut. I tried VideoPad yet I wasn't convinced enough to buy it.