Wasatch Conditions 13/14

Busy with work, but been out skiing, just haven't posted. Good snow on N facing aspects up high. Weak layers are lurking, keeping it mellow. Also found that there isn't enough snow a lot of other places, skinned up and down to Lake Blanche a week ago, still gonna take a couple storms. Resort skinning has been top notch though.:rolleyes: Got out and climbed some ice yesterday, GWI isn't ready for skiing yet either. Sorry to wake the dude, Christmas bivying on the last pitch. Merry Christmas all!

No swimming
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Orash111 in front of the Sundial
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Ian getting his
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Claymond making turns in the Christmas Tree'd Meadow
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Brown Santa brought some new elf shoes
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A little love on the nipple, rotten snow with no slab.

Went up Willows today, Dug a pit on a NNW facing, 32 deg test slope at 9500 feet. That was enough to keep me off N facing aspects for some time now.

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Beautiful day for a skin
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As we were exiting the test slope, loud whoompf
Cracking shooting out from our pit due south
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Cracks seen coming from the pit
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Facets! 35cms up from the ground
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Q1 shear of our ECT
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This obs is from yesterday Dec 27th. Dawn patrolled up griz to patsey. Dug a pit in upper patsey NE aspect. Scary complex and thin 90cm snowpack. Shovel shear gave an easy Q1 about 20 cm down. CT4Q1 on the same layer. CT14Q1 about 45-50 cm down. And also failures on the facets at the ground. :eek: ECT similar results with failures at the same layers but no real propagation. Lots of tracks in the face but no warm fuzzy from that. After further safety deliberations it was determined that the face was highly suspect, skiers left was especially windloaded, with it's only saving grace being that it's low angle. Stayed off the slab and ski cuts didn't produce. Turns are still creamy deluxe in the shade. Talked to some folks who skied the S aspect of fantasy and they said it was good although we didn't venture in that direction... Good morning to be out.

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I can hear bob now "Don't bootpack in the fucken skin track!"

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Testing ULLR Labs App, I'm thinking 32 not 28...

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Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!

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And some lame ass snowboarder...

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qualities stokages and obs abound
headed up silly fork to w bowl and a peak into the hideaway av
ran short on time
a well tracked westbowl skied alright a bit of crusties
got a couple extra soli tickets for tom.
probably drag icegrom out if he's game and splats got a couple bros in town lookin to get out
can get yas all out hwy2hev or meet you and leroy out in that hood
that jenkins cat must b alright if you didn't one n done em:wink:
never judge a book by the cover
and e books don't even haz covers

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qualities stokages and obs abound
headed up silly fork to w bowl and a peak into the hideaway av
ran short on time
a well tracked westbowl skied alright a bit of crusties
got a couple extra soli tickets for tom.
probably drag icegrom out if he's game and splats got a couple bros in town lookin to get out
can get yas all out hwy2hev or meet you and leroy out in that hood
that jenkins cat must b alright if you didn't one n done em:wink:
never judge a book by the cover
and e books don't even haz covers

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irl Leroy is good peeps irregardless of epersonages. Hit me up on teh com device and let's ski!

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Decided to avoid Grizz/Patsey after cross referencing the last couple days reports with some other obs from people who'd been up. Above post confirmed what I was afraid of. Just took the access road beside and up through Alta to the Catherine's Pass area and poked around a bit. Crusty, collapsing, weird snow. Oh well, was a decent workout at least...

Toured yesterday with SFB and his spancer Mrs SFB. Had a visit at the icepalace and met one of the people that make TGR what it is. IRL good peeps all of them! Also got the vip tour of sillitude from SFB then headed out hiway, realized my fubared lower back doesn't like 16000 side steps to the right. After some stretching at tlp back on the skinner to east bowl. The south facing was a pretty burly crust thing going, maybe a corn cycle if this high pressure keeps up? Once around the corner into the shade hasty pits showed all we needed to see. Settled pow on top, a bit of a zipper crust and facet city below:(. Skied the trees and still had fun. Sure the snow is thin, a bit funky and it ain't the wahsnatch blower but enjoyment is a state of mind. Good peeps, good tour, good weather hard not to smile.

SFB yelled dropping right after I got this shot. Muthafugger straightlined this :fmicon::fmicon::fmicon: Rog would shit his pants.

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Too much fun skiing didn't pull out the phone for action pics. Evidence of our presence. Who crossed tracks??:cussing:

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sfb is the godfather of the wasatch band of the tribe!!!! he likes to eff with folk on the wEb but has a heart of gold!!!

Searching for slopes that are faceted all the way through with no slab. Found one.

my sd card shitz the bed
but wrapped back around and out hwy again to meet packman &toph to poke around n facin flanigans
surprisingly not much of a slab in the sandbox there.
and not much coverage in the exits
seems like ya gotta aim your turn a couple feet above where ya wanna stop to allow for penatration
egp open today skied well
headed out to limby pines to check on the quild similiar aspect/elevation to flannies
but slabalicious
2 pits side to side average ct high teens
an ect19
an ect0
failing q2 below snirt
expanded the ect0 pit
rb4 failing above snirt on nov end of wrod storm facets
bailed for a crystal method ridge run and a thin yet fun facetty w sillyfork exit across from pooperchuter.

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meow
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Twice as much on one side of the ridge
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bit spooky even down lower in the weed whacker
skied variable
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exits needs snow of significant quantities in a timeley manners
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not so sure this does wellit does but in what manners gonna be intrestin
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same old same old low/mid teens primarily q1
happy new year
git sum in a safe manner

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considerably variable

^^^ way to make the most of conditions when they are toast.

Back up in grizzly dragging a crew of flatlanders who dont ski up on slowshoes. Winds picking up moving bunch of snow around. Spindrift off superior was impressive. Temps dropping. Pit on tlp ne facing ct20q1 fail on rime crust bout 10 inches down. Shovel shear popped there and another foot below that on a buried hoar layer. And a foot af facets at the ground.CrapCrapCrap. Need snow badly.

dangerz observerved
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winds transported some snow buffed er out
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hoars n baked goods
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good skiin spicy exits
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sillytudes beacon parks in lower lot up from eagle, down from fogville, inspo station area
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thanks n props to patrol wbr bca and those who make these potentially life savin essential bc
skill having exercise areas possible

First light for a few laps in Toledo today.

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Met up with the rest of the crew and headed to Little Superior
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"Bony" would be an appropriate word for up high.
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"Wet" would be alright for down low. This broke at my feet, ran probably a couple hundred vert, only 2-3" thick, maybe 20 feet wide. It was still going in this shot.
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Wasatch Wiggle
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I love reading this thread. You guys are lucky to live in such a great area!

some real nice early skiing/riding this morning in bcc, ne facing trees at mid elevation above 9k...6" of new at the time, winds and snow both started ramping up on our exit. didn't see any slabs forming...yet, since the winds were pretty calm last night and into the morning. snow did sluff a bit on our initial descents but wasn't significant and quite manageable. just one shitty phone shot.

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have to imagine things will be changing dramatically throughout the day/storm with an increased load and significant winds. way fun though.

17-20" in the cottonwoods. Good Lord I have died and gone to heaven.

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17-20" in the cottonwoods. Good Lord I have died and gone to heaven.

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Should get interesting :fm:

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Should get interesting :fm:

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WOnder if the avy will hit extreme by Sunday?

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Could be the nasty. Be super careful, come back alive. No one wants you dead.

UDOT avalanche control in LCC on 1/10/14@7:00am. A backcountry closure will be in effect from midnight to 8am from Lisa falls through Grizzly gulch

observed sum close encounters of the ice climb what you see when you pee kind
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the highway aint to splitter friendly
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neither are a lot of chutes
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nice to see significant accumulations of fresh pow added to the spatial variations list
along w/ maggot smiles
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damn glad 2 meet ya
shaved the beard and headed to Canada for 10 days so
accumulations and Buddha be praised
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But what the heck is it?

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