Wasatch 08-09 Conditions

Not sure if I skied over other tracks but looked like some earlier bomb work had been done at the top. I kept wondering if someone had made it to the top yet but I laid the skinner from the top of bad news area until the col where Main starts. The skiing was unconsolidated snow and luckily steeper than the apron and everything else because once I was out of main it was walk skiing even for my 160mm wide tips. I walked from the bottom of ball room until I ran into a cat trail 200 meters above the mid-mountain outlet for the Collins quad. SO WAX well and get ready for some heavy lovins!!!

Like to hear if anyone knows of someone skiing main this week before today. I skied over old tracks or slough debris underneath the 2-3' freshies that engulfed me from the get go until upper ballroom traverse.

What a way to welcome the winter!

Nice work!

Sounds like i'm calling a powder day tomorrow and blowing off class. Anyone want to head up early send me a pm.

It just keeps coming! The bosses at the bird called us in for some early setup. We're starting full time as of tomorrow. There goes the early season touring I was trying to fit in. Oh well, it is definitely better this way.

Snowbird opening Friday, according to this: http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/photo.php?photo=1097

holy fuck!

i cant wait to get back to utah in 2 weeks

wow! the whole snowstake at Snowbird is covered. You cant even see the top. That is a ton of snow!

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A) It looks awesome.
B) Any Utards that don't get out there suck
c) Hopefully it does just sit there and rot for a few days and end up creating a terrible rotten weak layer that slides all winter long.

hooooolly fuck!
great news, see y'all there!

I'll go out when it's sunny. I'm used to Mammoth skiing where it dumps and by time the wind has died down and the control work has been done it is sunny. So I only like skiing when it's sunny, not when it's snowy.

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I'll go out when it's sunny. I'm used to Mammoth skiing where it dumps and by time the wind has died down and the control work has been done it is sunny. So I only like skiing when it's sunny, not when it's snowy.

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you'd better go back from whence you came then. Last season (700+") I think I got like 4 sunny days!

Good luck with that though.

Just got back deep and nice, tough trail breaking, road was snowpacked and it was still dumping: NOTICE TO TURD LICK JONGS, WHEN THE SIGN SEZ 4WD OR CHAINS ONLY IT MEANS IT.....ok caps off I feel better :)

oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
I was not plaining on leaving for 2 weeks but I think thats all about to change.

Kapow!
I'll be there in 3 weeks.

I love the lake.

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Nice pointed! And...YOU SUCK!

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Snowbird opening Friday, according to this: http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/photo.php?photo=1097

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my climbing season just got offically ended. sweet Jesus!!! :fm:

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Just got back deep and nice, tough trail breaking, road was snowpacked and it was still dumping: NOTICE TO TURD LICK JONGS, WHEN THE SIGN SEZ 4WD OR CHAINS ONLY IT MEANS IT...

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Actually no.
99% of the time it means shit if you have good snow tires. That sign is retarted. They should either only turn it on when it's really 4/6 thick and nasty inches packed on the road or check people tires, not the number of wheels powering the thing.

Half the time my 2WD X-ice equipped car is stuked behind some Cherokee or Explorer with shit all season tires weaving left and right at 10mph .... Sad.

.... as expected ....

http://www.snowbird.com/about/pressc...hp?release=294

.... my legs hurt just thinking about ripping non-stop 3k laps :fm::fm:

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Actually no.
99% of the time it means shit if you have good snow tires. That sign is retarted. They should either only turn it on when it's really 4/6 thick and nasty inches packed on the road or check people tires, not the number of wheels powering the thing.

Half the time my 2WD X-ice equipped car is stuked behind some Cherokee or Explorer with shit all season tires weaving left and right at 10mph .... Sad.

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Agreed...its certainly more the idiot behind the wheel and not the # of wheels driving the car/truck!

WINTER!!!!!!

And yeah - snow tires don't turn anybody into Captain Invincible.

Not today amigo, the ford escort should have been pushed off the cliff! Lots o' gapers, passed a saab with the driver in the grips of the fear. The road was rugged during the lake band squalls!!!

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Not today amigo, the ford escort should have been pushed off the cliff! Lots o' gapers, passed a saab with the driver in the grips of the fear. The road was rugged during the lake band squalls!!!

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Rugged indeed. At 530 it was freaking harry with the plows not getting started after the lake bands.

didn't even have to use my AK


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Went up with Tom at the crack of 1pm with the thought of skiing Main Chute. Figured it would already be pummeled based on the 100 or so cars in the lot.

Tom on the shoulder. Must have been atleast 3.5feet through here. Lost the skin track soon after, making for some brutal early season trail breaking. Feeling soft and pudgy.
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Didn't have beacons, but felt ok about the conditions. Tom goes first, tentatively making turns for fear of rocks. Didn't hit any, and soon relaxed.
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Legit good skiing, no rocks, no visible tracks, stable snow.
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Only instabilities we saw were in the top 6-8" of wind affected along the upper Baldy shoulder. Otherwise, nothing was moving really. Just nominal sluffing on the upper reaches of Main.

Best first day ever.

Holy crap you guys got pounded... Jealous but very psyched on the stoke.

Alta was amazing today...over the head blower all day baby

Nice work guys, I'll be up in the AM for sure.

In the meantime, just snapped this from my living room:

damn, that a way to get the season started. looked like there some lake bands setting up for part of the day which explains the dramatically high snow totals.

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Nice work guys, I'll be up in the AM for sure.

In the meantime, just snapped this from my living room:

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Fuck Alta. Go somewhere fun, like Wolvy or something. Too many snowboarders at Alta.;)

good god, you guys got shallacked.

Criiipes!!! Way to get after it utards. Love the lightswitch change to winter.

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That's so rad it vaporised my frontal lobe.

RAD!!!

srsly - totallar rad

I'll be heading up to get some of the craziness first thing in the morning. If anybody needs a partner shoot me a PM.

Holy crappola.

not too pleased with my location right now, 45 days and I'm back for the season














its going to be a loooooooong 45 days

man today kicked ass one of the first couple of people on baldy ridge...

salida i think i saw you up there today you parked right next to me....
Man i wish i could just skip school tomorrow deffinatly wanna go again.. might have to hit the bird on friday..

oh ya sorry no pics made the dumb ass move of bringing my camera but didnt realize i didnt put my memory card back in there
easily 3-3.5 feet of coverage when i headed down just before 11 only hit one rock

EDIT: i forgot does anyone know anywhere around the cottonwood canyons that you can go snowmobile?? if so anyone wanna drag out the sleds and skis

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EDIT: i forgot does anyone know anywhere around the cottonwood canyons that you can go snowmobile?? if so anyone wanna drag out the sleds and skis

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Only up Guardsman.

Up at 5am, from PC-> alta with the lady friend by 7. Skins fucked by snow gun blowing water by 7:06. The trail was broken up as far as the top of wildcat. From there stomped it out rather slowly to Ballroom. Skied back to the car and met up with Powherb for a lap to the top of the SB tram. It was just as deep in the afternoon and the flats were still painful.

A little overnight consoladation of the snowpack won't be a bad thing IMO. Prolly back for another round of blower tomorrow.

it was like: summer, summer, summer, fall, fall, uh, back to summer, and *click* WINTER