Wasatch Conditions 09-10

[Skidog]

So I'm just looking at this thread for the first time in a while.... awesome stoke, but whats the deal? Has this turned into a TR thread?

I'm headed out to SLC on Friday morning and am getting psyched about the forecasted storm. Where's all the weather chatter??

I haven't been to LCC since I spent a season there 3 years ago and it's sad to say I've lost touch with most people. PAGING LAX!! Regardless, anyone know of a way to get some sort of Alta discount tix for Friday afternoon? Any help would be much appreciated.

No idea on the discount tix, but I think if you buy at smiths or a canyons sports or something you save like $10.....

Ill be there for the next few days showing a buddy around if you'd like to hook up with a fellow mag...I might tilt some photos though...

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So I'm just looking at this thread for the first time in a while.... awesome stoke, but whats the deal? Has this turned into a TR thread?

I'm headed out to SLC on Friday morning and am getting psyched about the forecasted storm. Where's all the weather chatter??

I haven't been to LCC since I spent a season there 3 years ago and it's sad to say I've lost touch with most people. PAGING LAX!! Regardless, anyone know of a way to get some sort of Alta discount tix for Friday afternoon? Any help would be much appreciated.

weather chatter doesnt exist amongst those who know the first rule of fight club.

and yea i had a couple buddies ski NW coulis and the HYPO yesterday. I dont think anything went wrong. Or any instabilities

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So I'm just looking at this thread for the first time in a while.... awesome stoke, but whats the deal? Has this turned into a TR thread?

I'm headed out to SLC on Friday morning and am getting psyched about the forecasted storm. Where's all the weather chatter??

I haven't been to LCC since I spent a season there 3 years ago and it's sad to say I've lost touch with most people. PAGING LAX!! Regardless, anyone know of a way to get some sort of Alta discount tix for Friday afternoon? Any help would be much appreciated.

and weather chatter doesnt exist amongst those who know the first rule of fight club.

and yea i had a couple buddies ski NW coulis and the HYPO yesterday. I dont think anything went wrong. Or any instabilities

[Dragonstail]

Flying out to SLC tommorow and will be at Snowbird (for the first time) from saturday to next thursday. If anyone wants to make some turns and show me around a little , shoot me a pm. It would be much appreciated.

[Trackhead]

So I'm just looking at this thread for the first time in a while.... awesome stoke, but whats the deal? Has this turned into a TR thread?

One can gleen information about snowpack by reading a simple TR here. You see people skipping meadows one week, then skiing steeper stuff the next. What does that tell you about conditions when you see more and more people safely skiing steeper stuff on all aspects?

Weather can be found elsewhere, the avy report can be read on UAC's website.

[Mark H]

BLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had too much fun to even take out the camera. New snow was moving some on steep north & west in White Pine but nothing serious.

[Boissal]

BLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had too much fun to even take out the camera.

What he said.
Deep fluffy goodness, under-reported in BCC (knee deep? check. Face shots? check).
Bonded well to the old snow too, some sluffs were observed but they lacked conviction. Bit of wind-loading and sensitive shallow slabs below the ridge in Argenta. The trees off the ridge were $$.
Coverage wise it finally feels like late December, even the bottom was skiable without hitting stumps.
Now let's hope Ullr stays on track and drops 150" in March.

[marauders]

Toledo and Flagstaff today. S and SE skied great. About 15" of snow with occasional deeper pockets. The skis would poke through to the underlying crust every now and then. No instabilities. The snow below 9K was getting heavy/cooked around 1pm. Above that it was pure gold.

[skifishbum]

Weather????
This thread needs steeze
Which is gayer?

or showing up to B right On on a 20" dump day with a spyder jacket and snowlerblades - points for not having dork cords though

sure are a lot of skittle steezed brahs hitting the slackcountry relying on recco, a slab of bacon, and the marco polo search tecnique. then again my dumb ass got sluffed of my feet shooting vid
my athelete Toph killing it

or is he
Sat headed up a well tracked

Chicas weren't feeling it so they headwalled it and down reporting good skiing
except cooked final pitch


PowderPondo and I headed up kessler observing one whacked ass skintrack
tight treehugging switchbacks out on to cornices above argenta cliffs.
tracks down w into mineral.
Passed on NE coli and headed down a spooky windloaded ridge to GLM. collapsing felt several times but no fracturing

Top of GLM was windloaded and getting ass mowed down it would suck so we skied down the ridge aways dropping in lower.
kick ass goodness down to bottom of slidepath
little manky and character building on treed exit to creek crossing.
Stopped by Powderponds new peice of the bcc dream.

Livin large brah Blessed are those whose ski what you see when you pee
options are

even if one of them is outdoor plumbing

feel free to post a shot of Neffs from your other rental prop to really get me and thanks for leasing us that lot with the shitter for $4.20 a month
You were totally killin it brah and gots the helmet follow cam, but need to get the spancers kitchen sink functional first.

Are you some sort of athelete?

[ZachClanton]

Lovin all the new snow



Hating seein it go...



Some of it was spared.



And the goods were found.



East and west facing got spanked, north was seriously loaded and ne & nw had excellent skiing about 100 feet off the peaks.



Can't forget the best part!



Good conditions for cliff hucking too. Thanks for the photo Dan!

Here's some POV footy from some recent pow shredding...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0NHU64Lla4"]YouTube- 10 Min Of Fresh Tracks[/ame]

[getoutside]

not to intrude but sh*t, way to get after it.

[The Gnarwhale]

Skied some N-facing leeward, wind loaded slopes yesterday and was surprised how soft and un-energetic the drifted snow was. No cracking or collapsing, good turning though a little upside-down.

[passholer]

PowderPondo and I headed up kessler observing one whacked ass skintrack
tight treehugging switchbacks out on to cornices above argenta cliffs.

1 st time skiing the wasnatch backcountry, on kessler i found the same pain skinning up lookers left of GLM skied a few hundy feet from the summit,

good snow to be found in the path there on sunday,pasty skied well sat/sun as long as you were early.

great skiing,those mountains are awesome,cant wait to return

[funkendrenchman]

4" since close... any thoughts on how tomorrow will be?

[ZachClanton]

Did a bit of climbing



And took it all in on the summit.



Down the hatch! Deep deep blower was found on the north and northeast aspects yesterday. Some wet activity was observed on the south but no other instabilities noted. During a full compression test dug to the ground, there was only one failure at CT16 right at a density change in rounds over a foot down.

[JTrue]

Skied NE shot off Gobblers 10k. CT2 Q2 broke between new/old snow interface 5" down. CT11 Q3 broke about 1.5' down. No cracking/whoomphing witnessed, some sluffage for sure, but nothing unmanageable. Everything but N facing had a stout suncrust under the new snow. Went from dust on crust down low in Butler to creamy pow at 10k.

[The Gnarwhale]

Went here, expecting to join the sheep but the flock was elsewhere.


Skied lap after lap without having to share.


A little sluffy. Check yer twenty.


Lapped until we lost the light

[skifishbum]

^^^^ Steller as usual ZC & GW
Goat fuck helmet cam cause nobody cares that a a couple wanna be rasta librodopers on chinese skis hiked all fkna day to ski the lawnmower.


Oh yeah Speed dialin back in Nov. scored methe mill creek yurt tom. night through Sun night.
if you'd like to head up & party, ski, sing Kumbi Ya whatever shout me a pm
or call

[ectreeskier11]

gnarwhale: had the SE aspects there filled back in after that wind event enough to make for some good skiing?

[Skidog]

^^^^ Steller as usual ZC & GW
Goat fuck helmet cam cause nobody cares that a a couple wanna be rasta librodopers on chinese skis hiked all fkna day to ski the lawnmower.


Oh yeah Speed dialin back in Nov. scored methe mill creek yurt tom. night through Sun night.
if you'd like to head up & party, ski, sing Kumbi Ya whatever shout me a pm
or call

Damn....that sounds sooo fun.....

Wish i could join.

[ZachClanton]

Today was truly epic.

[TeleThor]

Had a great morning also. S-facing Sup. skied very well this morning. A bunch of others had the same idea as us - to get it while it was good. Sluffing in the new snow at times, but nothing of any consequence. The sun came out in force so by 9:30-10ish it was already very manky at the bottom.

[The Gnarwhale]

Today was truly epic.

2nd that.

Provo


Ty


Provo gets injected


T-shirt weather this afternoon. Well, it was good while it lasted.


If it gets as warm as the NWS is sayin tomorrow, things will probably come unglued by lunchtime.

[ectreeskier11]

skibum is most likely referring to me... skied supe with telethor, tt's cousin and whapworth this morning, what an amazing run that is. great snow, noticed some debris in the usual spots but nothing too scary. left those guys at the bottom to go ski the bird with a buddy, and had a great day there too. about 2-3pm, i decided to ski out to white pine with a couple guys, one happened to be a coach for the SB freeski team and longtime ripper so i was confident following his lead, especially after our amazing run down sketchier SE superior. we skied to the very top of scotty's, scoped a little, and he dropped first, noticing sloughing but nothing much. since it was N facing and i was thinking it had been pretty cold with inconsistent sun all day, wet slabs were the last thing in my mind, and breaking off a deep slab was also not really something i was worried about. i dropped second in our party of three. made 2-3 turns on the spine i dropped on, and then got the feeling something wasn't right. figured some slough was chasing me, tried to stay high on the shoulder, but a BIG slab had ripped out above and around me. the rest is a blur, but i got taken in the 500-1000 foot range down the slope, maybe 2-300 vert. couldn't get my avalung in, as i think my shoulders had already popped from swimming when i went for it, my head went under a few times, and i came very close to numerous large trees. ended up in the open area underneath, with a bit of snow over my legs (whice were above my head), but head and most of body up. both skis/poles were apparently gone (partner found 2 skis 1 pole), and my shoulders were both completely dislocated, but i was up and OK. later on in the clinic (I somehow managed to avoid a chopper ride and skied the final ~1500 vert out, hunched over and in some serious pain) i heard it was 3-4 feet at the crown, and 200 feet wide. no idea how deep the debris was, though it didn't seem very deep where i ended up, but with the amount of snow that came down i am sure it could have buried me (my partner was luckily around 100 feet away from my resting place). it was by far the scariest moment of my entire life, and by sheer luck, and maybe a bit of help from the swimming, i made it, but it could have very easily turned out differently had i smashed one of the large trees or ended up in a different spot in the debris. i don't know if it was stupidity in not recognizing the significant warming from morning to afternoon, or an anomaly that i happened to strike in just the right place, but regardless i am thankful to be alive and happy no one else was involved. i plan on calling the UAC tomorrow and giving them my full account of what happened (i got home from the OR, where they had to completely get me under to get my L shoulder back in, around midnight tonight), and am very interested to read the full report. i learned a sobering lesson the hard way, but am lucky to live to ski another day, though i have a feeling it is going to take awhile for me to feel comfortable beyond the boundaries again. be careful out there guys, i am surprised and grateful that after my ride on a day when people were getting after much bigger stuff then scotty's, no one else was apparently injured or worse.

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wow ectree, thanks for the obviously painful insight. typing that must have been brutal. glad you are ok. speedy recovery!