Wasatch Conditions 11-12

**brutah** · 12-24-2011, 07:40 PM

^^^^ I too love

shitting

in my water supply.

sometimes, i freeze my turds

and use that shit

as ice cubes!!!

**paj** · 12-25-2011, 01:42 AM

Some good skiing was found in white pine earlier today.

**clarnitty** · 12-26-2011, 12:25 AM

GOOD CALL BRUTAH!!!!!!

happy festivus there yewtah skiers!!!

see ya out there!

Originally Posted by BRUTAH

Just a friendly reminder to people.....

if you dig an snow pit, FILL THAT SHIT IN WHEN YOU'RE DONE!!!

I passed three unfilled and unoccupied pits this morning (I also fell in one

)

Thanks and Merry Christmas!!!! PRAY4SNOW!!!

**alto** · 12-26-2011, 10:06 PM

Skied Cascade via Bunnells today with a festive group of 7. As expected it was tough going through the gullies to the base of the upper face. From there, crusty trailbreaking on the climber's R, ie SE-facing slopes, proved better than the facets-on-rocks found in the central and climber's L side of the face. Cold and windy on the summit had us hurrying to drop in after some hasty pulls on the Black Velvet. Really good skiing for about 3,000' followed by a dangerous shitfight back down the gully to our shoes. Made it out to the car with a touch of light still in the sky. Killer day.

Searching....

Target acquired.

Calibrating.

Initiate launch sequence.

**tyfalk** · 12-26-2011, 10:38 PM

Nice stoke alto!..We almost went over that way this am but stayed a little closser to the pen. Not too much new going on out there today. Some ok skiing to be had on sheltered slopes.

**Alx88** · 12-28-2011, 02:45 AM

cubes are the fucking

, I love that

... At least have the courtesy to throw your pit snow above it so you can jump that

yo.

There's enough snow to dig pits out there? What did you find, a buncha

facets?

**wasatchcrawler** · 12-29-2011, 10:11 AM

Stick a fork in it its done. A rain crust has now formed as reported by the UAC. The tires are flat and the doors are now blown off. I know its been worse but I can not remember when, 1976 maybe, I was five years old and didn't tour much. The cube walls are closing in, no storms in the extended forcast, the smog monster returns. Hit the reset button ma, where is my winter playland! I'm blaming Wasatch ski resorts bad karma. Make proper sacrifices to old man winter so that he may return.

**sfotex** · 12-29-2011, 10:16 AM

^^^

Taking the snow tires off next week + scheduling foot surgery so I'll be out 4-6 weeks. If that doesn't bring snow I don't know what will.

**Trackhead** · 12-29-2011, 10:32 AM

Frontal passage this morning laid down 1" above 9,500ft of dense, fun snow over the early morning groomers at Snowbird. Sad when 1" is "fun". Oh well.

**brutah** · 12-29-2011, 10:45 AM

will rain help bonding between facets???
guess i should fix my mountain bike and throw some storage wax on the skis....

in '88 or '87, the collins stake received 250" of total snowfall, there was 90 days of inversion in SLC and a record high of suicides, anyone think we'll get more than 300" this year?

**Trackhead** · 12-29-2011, 10:47 AM

This sort of defines things. Dust on blue ice.

**salida** · 12-29-2011, 10:58 AM

I booked a ticket to head east to go skiing next week. That should do it.

**sfotex** · 12-29-2011, 11:00 AM

Is it too soon to start talking about the fire season?

**Parvo** · 12-29-2011, 11:03 AM

when I woke up to rain this morning it made me mad enough to punch my hooker. someone please tell Cinnamon I'm sorry.

**Bite Me** · 12-29-2011, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Trackhead

This sort of defines things. Dust on blue ice.

Looks like a good least coast day.

**LivinTheDream** · 12-29-2011, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Parvo

when I woke up to rain this morning it made me mad enough to punch my hooker. someone please tell Cinnamon I'm sorry.

Ha! This made me spit out my coffee.

**brutah** · 12-29-2011, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by sfotex

Is it too soon to start talking about the fire season?

Ha! I was at the bar with a few firefightin' friends on wednesday, they're foaming at the mouth!
might be time for a career change!

**F#*k you cat** · 12-29-2011, 01:07 PM

Kobernik confirmed RAIN at 10k

**alto** · 12-29-2011, 03:52 PM

Skied near Lake Peak in WP. Pretty darn good turns were had. Wet as hell in the parking lot but snowline was reached after about 2 minutes of walking. Up high we found 2-4 inches of some thing white and soft above the rain crust above the facets. Easy, clean shears found at the interfaces of these new layers.

**spindrift65** · 12-29-2011, 10:53 PM

just a little more weight and things will get interesting.

**getoutside** · 12-30-2011, 12:30 PM

^ agreed. was not bad off north facing side of reynolds into butler fork yesterday.

**salida** · 12-30-2011, 02:38 PM

Good skiing yesterday evening and this morning up in Twin Lakes Pass and lower Wolvy. Some general cracking and whumping, but not on the ridgeline for me, mostly down in the flats around Twin Lakes. Cut numerous slopes but didn't get anything to pull out. I'm sure if you pushed the angle it would come out. The winds started cranking at we were leaving around 10 AM.

Brilliant sun rise.

**JTrue** · 12-30-2011, 06:32 PM

Skied a coolie on Lake Peak with springsproject. Mike dug a pit on the NE aspect. Snowpack was about 4 feet deep where we dug. Plenty of melt freeze layers, one two inches down another about 2 feet down. However a surprising CT 25 Q3 on normal and extended column tests on the lowest crust sitting on facets. Fracture didn't propogate on extended column.