June 24th. Skied Pipeline at the crack of 10am. Surprisingly good skiing with attention needed to avoid surface sluffing. An hour earlier would have been ideal. You can still ski to the car.
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June 24th. Skied Pipeline at the crack of 10am. Surprisingly good skiing with attention needed to avoid surface sluffing. An hour earlier would have been ideal. You can still ski to the car.
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Derek, did you notice that big crown on the Pfeiff while you were up there? Maybe the rain crust struck again.
After seeing how much fun Jim, Derek, and Tom had on the North Face of Timp I thought I better get up there and take advantage while this amazing snowpack still lasts. Lots of sluffing from the summit down to 10k but below that the snow was fine.
The Grunge looking grungy
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So obviously that little narrow squeeze melted out, eh?
^^I wonder if the lookers right line would go through the cliffs? Maybe on an 800" year, but probably not in any normal year.
Isnt the lookers right variation the one that McLean and Barlage did? Looks like it might actually go clean in the reference shot but I hear they had to do several raps. Maybe they just hit it in a low snow year?
Suicide Chute - MT Superior
6-26-11
crack of 10:00 Skied all the way to the ROAD
Conditions variable. most of suicide still winter. had to kick steps on upper 1/3rd. Lower 2/3 softened up on decent for fun carvable corn. lower apron was dirty sticky snow. Big old cornice
at the top.
Should mention upper slope was slide for life frozen. I had a whippit but could of used crampons for stability kicking steps when booting. A Slip -Fall would of been very very BAD >> flushed out to the apron.
Kevin
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Last edited by F#*k You Cat; 06-27-2011 at 02:39 PM. Reason: Update
We had a nice MASS suicide on saturday. should ski nice for awhile as we put 8 people down it. real nice and smooth all the way to the road on saturday. nice supportable summer snow!!!
CAN'T WAIT TO SKI ON THE FOURTH OF JULY!!!!i hope theY open mirror lake highway this week!!!
GO BIG!!!
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My brother and I skied in the Uintas last week. The coverage is astounding, and the snow was skiing great! We skied right off the summit block of Ostler Peak down the west face for 3000', a line I have wanted to get for many years. UDOT has made it up and over Bald Mtn. Pass I believe.
I should note, we saw MANY large avalanches. The cornices are not normal, and they have begun to fall off the mountains and in some cases triggering some large deep slides. We came a little too close to seeing one of these monsters peel off.
what are the condition like at alta. trying to get some turns in for my birthday tommorow. would it be a bad idea to hike without a beacon.
PM sent to Loaf for Life
Went up grizzly to twin lakes pass today at 11. Still a lot of good snow left at alta for you TheLoaf4Life.
lost my camera somewhere between East Castle and the very end of the road yesterday morning (Monday). Retraced my route today but no luck. If anyone found it, I'd happily reward for it.
Beautiful up there (except for the bomb streaks)! Agree beacon is optional - crampons and maybe an ice-axe would be more useful if your heading up anything steep early!
Last edited by Dantheman; 06-28-2011 at 12:54 PM.
put bacon in your crotch
I never wear beacons skiing summer snowpack.
10k at 10 am, NE aspect skied better then expected. Saw this today for the first time. A buddy at the A-lodge said they noticed it about a week ago. Still tons of snow up there.
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Last edited by tyfalk; 06-28-2011 at 08:11 PM.
"Officially known as Highway U-210, more commonly known as Little Cottonwood Canyon and unofficially acknowledged as the epicenter of the greatest snow on earth." Andrew McLean
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