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Yesterday I couldn't bring myself to finish scrapin my skis after hearing of the loss of these two outstanding members of the backcountry communityQuote:
Originally Posted by tyfalk
Today turns will be made in their and others who are no longer with us honor
Please feel free to join us in a celebration of the grand life of Adam Layton this Saturday March 10, Our Lady of Snows, 7-9 pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
All are welcome
^^ vibes for the friends and families affected by the recent losses in the tetons and golden bc.
didn’t have a lot of time before work but found some mid-elevation settled soft snow in NW-N facing aspects in the brighton periphery. breakable crust pretty much everywhere else. better than expected.
Anyone skin up Argenta today? Thinking of dawn patrolling it, but concerned how much the sun as baked it.
near perfect corn on s facing mid elevations just after 10 today.
Nice traxs this way
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Saw somethin up here
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Lil closer
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Not much going on up here
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Lotsa untracked nice pow NNW SugahRay
UDOT will be testing artillery above the White Pine Chutes, White Pine, Little Pine areas tomorrow.
Backcountry on the North side of Little Cottonwood Canyon from gate B to gate D (Lisa Falls to Superior) will be closed from midnight tonight until noon tomorrow.
Thanks, Brad
High east was skiing surprisingly well this am. Mid-elevation, south aspects were skiing well with something resembling corn at around 9:30.
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March 18,2012
UDOT Avalanche Control Work Lt. Cottonwood Canyon this morning. Backcountry closure all areas north of canyon road from Closure Gate C through Grizzly Gulch as of 4:45 a.m. Anticipate restrictions lifted by 8:30 a.m. 3/18/12.
Update 0615am
March 18,2012
UDOT Avalanche Control Work Lt. Cottonwood Canyon this morning. Backcountry closure all areas north of canyon road from Closure Gate B through Grizzly Gulch as of 6:15 a.m. Anticipate restrictions lifted by 8:30 a.m. 3/18/12.
who cares when winter arrives, good in the trees, easy to collapse, stayed low angle, going to be better tomorrow
UDOT will be conducting artillery avalanche control in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Monday, March 19, 2012. A backcountry closure will be in effect for terrain on the north side of the canyon road from Gate B through Grizzly Gulch from 11:59 pm tonight March 18 until 8:30 am on March 19. The road into Little Cottonwoon will close at 6:00 am on March 19. A map of the closure area is posted on the UDOT website at www.udot.utah.gov/avalanche
Brad
Got out bright and early with Wills. Snow seemed to be bonding well in the mid-elevation trees, no whoomping or cracking observed. Higher ridgelines could be scary with the wind event last night, didn't venture up high.
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way to get after itQuote:
Originally Posted by JTrue
Experienced back-country skier from Alberta looking for people to show me around the Wasatch back-country Wed-Fri March 21-23. I'll be staying with non-skiing friends in Jeremy Ranch.
Gerard
skiing at gerardm dot com
Just slid to the road after the Wildcat parking lot entrance before A-Lodge, 3' deep or so
found pretty decent bonding and few instabilities and damn fine skiing n ne bcc, below 8k the snowpack was a wet sloppy unconsolidated mess
wifeypoo
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jh
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and pondo mcflakie
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ever hear the story bout the louisianna mailman who couldn't deliver in crunch time?
paid him millions and even named a street after him
Weird huh?:confused:
:wink:
Agreed, low elevation was manky but it quickly turned lighter with not a huge gain in elevation.
We had a natural cycle last night from 11:50 to 1:00am with Little Pine stopping in it's track, White Pine just short of the road, White Pine Chute 1 to the road, White Pine Chutes 2 and 3 running to some where in their tracks, Red's, a road bank just down canyon of the forest service garage, crossed the road 2 feet deep 30' wide.
With artillery this morning we got a few class 1's in the White Pine Chutes, a class 2.5 in the High Models above the Snowbird Village and a class 2.5 crossing the highway 3' deep East Hellgate. No visible results elsewhere.
Watch out for the warm up in these parts.
-Bradley
Best turns of "the winter that never was":biggrin: so far this morning. Huge smiles by all!!
Crazzzy deep out there today, so deep that it was hard to get.down the flat sections on argenta. Couple laps on the.north facing trees up there. Super good, about 24-36" of new snow above a stout crust. ECT s and CTs failed.in mid.teens with q3 shears in the new snow, minor sluffing observed.
Heard God's lawnmower ran HUGE down to facets 200' wide by 1500 vert, human triggered, nobody caught.
Tomorrow might be better than today
Any of you mags on here happen to be the guy I lent my yellow/grey stoic mitts at Brighton Friday 3/16 night? You and a buddy had your packs and were headin to Wolverine bowl for the night to sleep in a snow cave. Said you stopped in at Molly Greens to take a shot and left your gloves there so I lent you mine. Got your number 860 area code, but don't remember you name and you aren't returning texts/calls.
Great skiing out there today. A few density changes were pulling out on the steeper slopes with clean sheers, within the storm snow about a foot down. Kind of a mess getting up the canyon especially for this guy...
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The sun tired to come out today but didn't stay out long enough to effect the snow up high in lcc.
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Epic yesterday. Be smart out there today. Stuff is going to break all over the place once the sun puts weight on this.
Peace out.
Comments on Sunday and Monday: Fvck yeah!
That is all.
[QUOTE=tyfalk;3589078]Great skiing out there today. A few density changes were pulling out on the steeper slopes with clean sheers, within the storm snow about a foot down. Kind of a mess getting up the canyon especially for this guy...
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The sun tired to come out today but didn't stay out long enough to effect the snow up high in lcc.[QUOTE=tyfalk;3589078]
I heard the guy who was driving that car talking about it yesterday at the Albion Grill. He was looking at the Wildcat parking lot instead of the road and got his right wheel into the snow and off he went.