Thanks. Was a shock for sure. Way too young.Quote:
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Thanks. Was a shock for sure. Way too young.Quote:
Originally Posted by 54-46
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Well what a coincidence but this is exactly what Tyson is saying again. That they didn't follow directions. Seems oddQuote:
The report that detailed the fatal accident two years ago kind of led the reader to believe that the client didn't follow direction with its vagueness. A well written report doesn't lead the reader anywhere, it speaks in definitives.
He must give shitty fucking directions for half the group to not have followed correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgsbet86
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^^^ I’ve been cat skiing and guide is like ok one at a time with buddy and then first person goes and all others except me got panicked they will miss Powder and everyone goes
I’ve also seen people flat out ignore the guides Guide scolds them and people tell guide they paid good money and don’t have to listen to the guide.
Not saying this did or did not happen here but I’ve seen some real bad guests also.
Umm, yeah, ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by whyturn
I guided Class V whitewater for years and there were times when a rapid wasn't safe and we couldn't run it commercially. Clients would get pissy and say they paid for it and that we had to do it. Our answer was always that they paid for our judgement and for us to take them down the river as safely as possible, and that meant not happening today. Grumpy customers who live to come back another day are better for business than dead customers. Letting them bully you because they paid is just shitty guiding.
That's the whole guide shake out thing. Do a lap in benign terrain and give them specific directions to see who your dealing with.Quote:
Originally Posted by whyturn
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I've been cat skiing quite a few times and letting clients decide the rules typically isn't the scenario. If you find yourself in an operation that operates with such rules perhaps you should rethink your scheduling decisions.
^^^that really was not my point. They shut the shenanigans down quick but it really screwed the terrain we could ski. But I did go with Targhee cats and the guide sent those guys down first and more tracked area. We waited and he let us go right into a really sweet area. So guides have to find a way
Anyways it was pretty good on xmas day at alta.
Fuck 2017. Bring on 2018. It cant be much worse.... whatever entity that is really in charge.. if you are listening... that is not a challenge!
All things considered the sheltered north facing terrain has decent snow. Just need to watch for stumps a little bit. The exit routes are another story....
Duderino, you got a sick new job in 2017. It was a year for character building :)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFugitive
Over in BCC the holiday crowds are gone & groomer ripping is en vogue.
Cheers to 2018
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Thanks buddy! Im in a glass half empty kinda mood. Railing groomers is great and all but some snow would be nice. Lets get out for a tour sometime!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bromontana
👍 ideally after some stroms cover the promised land
ya got a picture of the crown and a slick videos devoid of facts pertaining to the accidentQuote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
im with brutah utah exum gots some good peeps
ive had positive on mountain encounters with tysen and negative ones
accidents happen and reports should help others learn from them so its doing a public disservice to intentionally
omit facts to protect your spansers
an oag used to do holiday reports in rhyme
now it seems to be about protecting revenue streams and making dime
conditions for january in the satch, the mind it boggles
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had great fun skiing walk on dancing room tram laps with with my bmc bros
but the world the bums reside ins viewed thru weeds tinted goggles
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may ya all make the best of what 2018 offers
At least the sun's still low so the snow stays soft despite the warm temps.
Took a visit to the pc ridgeline for NYE , found good snow in the sheltered trees, found whomps and collasping snow in the flats.
Got up this evening for a little sunset stroll with the wife. Watched the sunset and the super moon rise.
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"If you're a ski bum and you don't ski you're just kind of a bum."
Happy New Year, fuckos.
I fully agree - UAC should have more info about the accident and it is strange that they don't. I'm pretty wary of accusing them of "protecting revenue and making dime" ... they seem like a pretty good group and I always assumed they got by on donations and a meager budget from the state. I don't picture a bunch of fat-cats sitting around laughing at us regular folk from their swanky offices .... but ... maybe you have more info for those fairly serious accusations? There's a fair bit of evil out there, I'm not sure I'm ready to lump the UAC in with it ... seems like they provide a pretty important public service and do a good job of it too. Still, definitely worth asking why not more details around this event....Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
From the report:
Periodic storms during October, November, and early December interspersed by long durations of high pressure allowed the snowpack to develop weak, faceted layers of sugary snow. The only missing ingredient in the required recipe for avalanches was a slab on top. Storms accompanied by high winds from Saturday 12/23 through Monday 12/25 put put down 2' of storm and wind-drifted snow in upper Little Cottonwood Canyon, overloading these buried persistent weak layers.
Avalanche activity on mid and upper elevation slopes facing north through east, and continued reports of collapsing and cracking, throughout the week prior to this incident indicated continued instability.
This was a classic persistent slab avalanche:
1. There were numerous tracks on adjacent slopes with no evidence of avalanching;
2. The fourth skier on the slope triggered the avalanche.
With a persistent (or deep) avalanche problem, tracks on a slope are zero indication of stability. All it takes is for one person to find a weak spot and the entire slope can avalanche, taking out prior tracks. These types of avalanches also allow a rider to get well out onto a slope before avalanching, and it is not uncommon for the avalanche to fracture widely - and above the rider.
From reports we have received, more than one skier was on the slope when it avalanched. It is crucial to only expose one person at a time on a slope, and get out of the runout zone at the bottom, and then wait for the next rider to enter the slope.
Our current persistent slab structure can easily be identified by digging down 1 to 3' deeply in the snowpack. If you find the structure of strong snow (denser, harder to penetrate) over weak snow (softer, easier to penetrate) this is evidence of a poor snowpack structure, and the types of slopes that should be avoided. In the Wasatch mountains, this problem currently exists on mid and upper elevation slopes facing north through east.
I would call the above an objective criticism of the guide’s failure to recognize a common persistent problem and travel with his group accordingly. It’s certainly no scathing review but it clearly states the mistakes that were made. That accident could have been avoided.
As a government entity, UAC has to be careful what they say and how they say it. Lawyers are going to make some $ outta this one I bet.
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Originally Posted by ~mikey b
I agree, their updated report is as thorough as we should expect any report. I was overly critical in my initial reaction and I apologize.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
You didn’t hurt my feelings...
I agree. The role of UAC is to state what happened, what mistakes were made and how they can be prevented in the future. In all those regards, the updated report succeeds.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
Although I doubt that this will happen, I do wish the guide would have his own write-up as to what happened that could be posted on UAC. It would be really interesting to see what his thought process was and what factors caused him to make some pretty fundamental mistakes.
Been at the bird all break for the kids Christmas camp. Took the 8 yr old up to Alta to ski with s friend today and what a difference. It’s skiing so much better. The coverage is much better as well.
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This is one of my favorite sections of Snowbird. Great finish to a top to bottom pow run. I'd been out of town for a few days, saw it was open, and had to ride it. Cirque Traverse is hairy. But it's damn nice to have some terrain open finally, glad they opened stuff up
Crazy that they opened that, the cirque was only open about a third of the way down the traverse on Sat. In fact, a patroller I rode up with told me that he saw someone poaching Mach Schnell and that he would have pulled dude's pass had he been on the ground and not in the tram.
Good lord the mid cirque traverse was BEAT though. Never seen it that bad in my life (snow was great once you got in though!)
^^Ya I wrote that confusingly. That's the lower gully under the tram not off the Cirque.
Spoke with Tyson a few days ago. Hope I can represent well. Wasn't there, so many grains of salt, please.Quote:
Originally Posted by hercule33
Before anything, I'd like to say that shit happens. Especially with human elements involved. Especially in the mountains and rivers.
Every one of us knows this, some more so than others. Tyson has spent a lot of time = risk in the mountains, these later years guiding folks who don't know a lot that we take for granted, kinda. When I was younger I thought I wanted to go down that guiding path. Couldn't do it. Won't start now either.
Tyson told everyone to wait and ski one at a time after he traversed, skied and set the right hand boundary of the slope to be skied, and got out of the way at the bottom. He had two tail guides. Directions weren't followed. There were three people traversing onto the slope before he realized what was happening and yelled at them to stop from the bottom of the slope. They did, and the slope broke.
Things to learn, for sure. Those pesky human factors. Poor slope choice, obviously. No blood no foul on this one luckily with some trees in the run out.
As a patroller and back country rescuer I gave up finding fault with other's actions in the mountains a long time ago. One can never find the balance of blame placing in that fuzzy area between poor choice / and being involved with inherently dangerous activities in objectively hazardous environments. Don't any of you maggots ever grow the couldn't happen to me mindset. Please.
Off the soapbox on this one, happy new year everyone! Hope it starts snowing...
Thank you for the update. As more people get into Backcountry skiing unfortunately this kind of pressure from guests is getting worse, especially when you hire the guide for the day. I have always done multiple day guided trips which allows the guides much more time to assess the groups Backcountry ski level. As an added bonus, on most multi day trips, most of the guests are pretty Backcountry savvy.Quote:
Originally Posted by telefreewasatch
That being said I had a guide tell me a few years back that some people inquired about a trip and would only book, "if they were guaranteed to ski gnarly terrain." The guide told them you book elsewhere but it does show you the pressure that is on guides to take clients into riskier situations.
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Is that Mad river Glen? It sure looks like low tide Vermont skiing.Quote:
Originally Posted by claymond
Not this year.... I moved here in May from Warren (MRGer aka River Rat) apparently i brought VT to UT.Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
Get 'yer pitch forks and torches folks here I am....
Skied a few laps on the park city white ribbon this morning. Started lap one with a pre dawn run down pay day (neither of us packed headlamps mind you)... Holy shit, I can't believe a run lined with snowmaking isn't open yet and didn't appear to be that close. I guess the Sparks flying off our skis should have been warning signs as we headed down the cat track. What a sad state of affairs this winter and those lucky bastards back east don't even want that snow or cold.... Oh well, the cord on treasure hollow and home run was fun for a few laps I guess. Super popular, home run was buzzing with uphillers all morninghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f9ccdcd04c.jpg
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that it is. pretty quiet on milly this morning.Quote:
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Beware the angry cat driver! Cant go fucking up his corduroy without buying a ticket!Quote:
Originally Posted by getoutside
hahaha that's why I avoid b-right-on altogether. they went from most friendly uphill ski area to least friendly real qucik.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFugitive
the PCMR cat driver gave me a thumbs up as I stayed behind his cat like a wakesurfer behind a boat on the way down yesterday morning.
snowing pretty good up to ~7500’ in BCC bout half an hour ago, roads a mess too. we’re due for some overperformers though eh?
Have SW flight booked 2 weeks out. Shit been blowing through my life and I could use a gettaway, but also probably needed on homefront. No planning other than buying ticket in August which is very unlike me.
Like SLC because you can drive N for snow or S to the canyons to get lost-backpacking in Southern Utah in Winter is great-no one is around, no fighting for permits. Still things at home would have me delay a trip for backpacking. Snow looks grim. Need to check on cancellation policy of SW flight.
How are you guys feeling about the end of the month?
The long range is looking promising for the end of the month. Inbounds still has no base depth and anything with snow on it in the bc will be rotten garbage beneath the new snow, so I would keep your expectations in check. But if the forecast holds, we may get enough snow to open the resorts most of the way and/or ski off piste in a quasi-safe manner.Quote:
Originally Posted by cat in january
no doubt. been yelled at by the crusty one before so generally stay away. sticky in silver fork yesterday, 6" and some soft turns in spots, dust on crust in others this am. hope the tide is turning. the # of cars driving up lcc at 9am was impressive... like it snowed 2' last night. powder starvation will do that to ya.Quote:
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