Wasatch Conditions 13/14

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Originally Posted by icelanticskier

80" rule bob

rog

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Is that if your skis travel more than 80" down the fall line you need to make another buttwiggles noodle skipper turn or you will go to fast?
and be scwarydied?

Went for a skin up the fk of sillyness. snow densities changed above the alta tunnel/base of flannies.
winds transported a fair bit of snow a into slabs of various cohesion atop variable crusts and oct facets.

not much natural actitiy observed on dav e or w bowl and no tests of quantitive values were performed
coulda been a glitch in the advsiory matrix i left about an hour after the time stamp and never got it to load
glad them rocky point peeps are okay reguardless of fault
you can

but

gonna eat
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mrs. bum had fun but shes more cagey like a fox
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...pse6843064.jpg

9 days, no rocks. No slides. 20,000'.

Of course I'm way picky about where I go.

way 2 go johnny!!!!!!!!!!! i like your style!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Johnny Deep

9 days, no rocks. No slides. 20,000'.

Of course I'm way picky about where I go.

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STRAVA, I might as well play too.

5 days, 17.8k ft, 35.9 miles, multiple faceshots and coreshots.

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Originally Posted by JTrue

STRAVA, I might as well play too.

5 days, 17.8k ft, 35.9 miles, multiple faceshots and coreshots.

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No face shots as of yet, but I'm hoping to do better. :cool:

6 days, one big coreshot from a day at the 'Bird. Lotsa smiles.

Just missed seeing that avalanche in Cardiac. It hadnt slid when the two dudes started up the bottom. A lap later we saw this. They'd already skied away and the other party in Cardiff made a comment that they'd split to change their pants. Wish we would have had better timing. Bet it kicked up a nice powder cloud.
http://www.perpetualweekend.com/wp-c...led-6015-2.jpg

The remanents from previous slides aren't that obvious.

No wait...

Looks to me like that was a loose snow avlanche from durring the storm. Slab vs half-buried sluff is a good visualization of how the snow changed overnight.

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Originally Posted by The Gnarwhale

6 days, one big coreshot from a day at the 'Bird. Lotsa smiles.

Just missed seeing that avalanche in Cardiac. It hadnt slid when the two dudes started up the bottom. A lap later we saw this. They'd already skied away and the other party in Cardiff made a comment that they'd split to change their pants. Wish we would have had better timing. Bet it kicked up a nice powder cloud.

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Nice shot, assuming the party of two triggered it then descended next to it? Glad they weren't in the gut when she ripped.

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Originally Posted by The Gnarwhale

Looks to me like that was a loose snow avlanche from durring the storm. Slab vs half-buried sluff is a good visualization of how the snow changed overnight.

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Probably.

An amazing change from Saturday to Sunday. It was like I was dropped off on another planet. I was so looking forward to a little settling.

Yeah, they triggered it remotely while skinning Jason. Nobody but the guys involved witnessed it, so I have no idea it if slid at their ski tips or not. Glad for their sake it didnt go wider and take out their uptrack. We had a conversation on the drive up the canyon that maybe one could squeak some turns down the E end of the bowl under the cliffs but that, based on overnight wind numbers, we certainly wouldnt want to poke under the Ventricles where one would be more likely to tickle a windslab sitting on facets. Then that slab slid just about exactly where we'd speculated it might... though I'm sure a bunch of people on this thread would have reached that same conclusion.

Went back up this morning with a co-worker and noticed a big fat slab ripped on Patsy, skier's left of my tracks from yesterday... That crown was a good 5-6'.

http://distilleryimage7.ak.instagram...66b39ba1_8.jpg

But we still found some good stuff in the trees

http://distilleryimage6.ak.instagram...faf4e0e4_8.jpg

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Originally Posted by The Gnarwhale

Yeah, they triggered it remotely while skinning Jason. Nobody but the guys involved witnessed it, so I have no idea it if slid at their ski tips or not. Glad for their sake it didnt go wider and take out their uptrack. We had a conversation on the drive up the canyon that maybe one could squeak some turns down the E end of the bowl under the cliffs but that, based on overnight wind numbers, we certainly wouldnt want to poke under the Ventricles where one would be more likely to tickle a windslab sitting on facets. Then that slab slid just about exactly where we'd speculated it might... though I'm sure a bunch of people on this thread would have reached that same conclusion.

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I talked to them as they were skiing by me on my way up Mill D. They had a scared shitless look on their face. Said they bailed right after it happened. Warned me of North facing slopes as they pulled that out on Superior.

Anyone wanna get out tomorrow?? Should be some fresh snow

This morning up Grizzly

http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/...ps361e8e59.jpg

^^ some fun turns in bcc early. maybe 4" or so of new. saw another group of 5-6 when starting the descent. pretty sure the first two were eyeing up my line ... a little too late i guess. nice morning despite some early fog.

b right ons opened crest so we went for a walk out pio 2 dog lake weds poked around a bit. pretty variable on pit results most failing fairly clean q1's at the new/old snow interface a few breaking down below snirt. ect's werent
propagating a lot
don't remembers the exact verticle column saw propagation quantifications but i'm going w/:eek:
S facin thin n punchy to rocky and generally codeword not ready
got a small pocket to go on a ski cut comin down the subridge off pio
crappy pic of crown w/ ski tip inserted here:wink:
a few good turns 2 b had off dl chutes but plenty of ground contact still
just gonna leave this here not real good at quantifyin but perhaps the 12" rule is being evoked:fmicon:
A lot of utarded characters out there.

blessed are those who leave their signatures on a fresh canvas daily
damn i wanna b a UPPer
ya knever knows:wink:

Andrew McLean take on the wasatch bc!!!

http://straightchuter.com/?p=7284

my unprofessional ski bum take
character building and gear harshening
made the better 1/2 accompany me up the days draw trade route
mixed bag of meh out there
from large leave no trace wind jacked slabs along the draw subridge , to bare rock on the se aspect
hasties along the way reveled improving stablities bit warm and enough sun peaking through graybird led to snowpack saturation bout 1/2 way up
to the point of pinwheelablity lower
few debris in the upper draw and a lot of windjackage up top
pit results a couple hundy ft off ridge ene over towards the bnanner subridge pretty standard
2' depth failin ct midteens mostly on few inches of rounding facets below snirt a few at ground
ect negitory on the ak boot drop
milked a dozen light gravity pivot steer no whammy turns of ski bum pleasure off the subridge
till it got ugly then a few more decent turns lower angle mid elevation
wifes take
1st aid skills trump beacon skills at this point of the season

Snow has been meh, but the rock in LCC has been prime!


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Photos by Jon Vickers

I luv it, a mixed bag of meh. Can I rest now?

Seeing how I can't even skin up Grizzly after work bc of the coverage, anyone know if snow is still down to the winter gate in millcreek?

I'd like to take the pooch up for a little training after teh job.

Artillery sight-in LCC 11/26/13. Backcountry access north side LCC from Lisa Falls to Grizzly Gulch closed from 12:01 a.m. 11/25/13 to 8:00 a.m. 11/26/13.

Thank you

edit: Don't drink and internet, especially when you're a BC jong.

^^^Dude you know what Q1 is right...?

Also when you say near ground surface hoars. I believe your talking about facets at the ground also called depth hoar...