Wasatch Conditions 13/14

[JTrue]

great post ryan14410!!! welcome to the tribe!!!!!!!!!!1

Slaaag is that you?

[tuco]

Slaaag is that you?

This is his new e-persona, ya know, representin' n sellen' the shit out of Voile skis, with ninja like ski skillzzzzz!

[skifishbum]

bhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa
blopostonthetube
is gittin er done
i guess "been there done that got the t-shirt"
been replaced w/ ski tips selfies
i'm puttin duck lip stickers on mine
figure the thread could use a bit more estrogen like everythin here








and fuck yeah long time no settlement coneages

the stoke is strong on this page

[dyna1fit]

Broku for SFB... u bring nothin true so fucka you u fucking whiny 1 set of binders helped an old slagg out bitch

[dyna1fit]

ha ha ha ur like a white dude with dreads in Jamaica... cept in utard... momo bitch... anti-stoke bro ski dying breed wannabe trust a far i a... and i almost bought a pair of those BRO models... suck it

[tuco]

Gee, wonder who^^^^ that could be?

[dyna1fit]

Tuco loco

[dyna1fit]

Keep wondering hanger on...

[ryan14410]

indeed, the stoke is strong! JTrue, that shot of Tuscarora looks like a blast

[Ice_Coaster]

Great weekend to be out! Original plan was to do Tolcat Couloir, but ended up going up the Patsy Marley ridge to Wolverine Cirque. Large cornices in the cirque. The west facing aprons have exposed rocks between the chutes.

Fucking awesome snow even though there were two tracks in it already. Went back up to the top of Patsy Marely and rode the ridge down a bit, then dropped into the Microwave taking us back down the road/Alta side. The Microwave is W-SW facing; the snow was getting damp as we were making our exit at 1pm. Off the slopes at 1:45pm, but forgot to bring the 2 beers to enjoy back at the car. Hope you all got some!! Or lots!!!

Did a pretty similar route today on dawn patrol. Snow was surprisingly hard even up top, and those cornices on Wolvie were pretty menacing. The views never suck though.

[Barnballs]

Booked a last minute flight out this Friday evening, recommendations on lodging for the night? Guess close to LCC, or BCC preferred.

Thanks!
BB

[ryan14410]

Another dawn patrol today - Tanner's Gulch. Met at the park and ride at 3:30am, started walking/skinning about 4:10am. Snow was damp for a while up the gully. There was wet avy debris everywhere up the entire thing. All the gulley walls slid, chutes, chokes, couloirs throughout.
Here's a photo of what I believe are "rounds" that were directly beneath the bed surface in one of the chutes (you could call it that) on the way up.


Bootin' up Tanner's


Above 8800ft or so, it was facets that were beneath the bed surface.

Light snow below about 9000ft, above which was graupel falling. In the upper couloir, the graupel was naturally sloughing off the rock walls and through the path of least resistance on the bed surface; nothing big, only about 1cm deep. Got cloudy just below 10,000ft. We turned around about 300' below the saddle; it was about 8am and we needed to get to work!

Avy debris in the upper couloir


Might not have been great snow at all, and very bumpy, but was still a blast!


Comin' down through the bowl


Walkin' down the larger avy debris piles


Snow was even wetter by the time were got to the lower gully close to 9am. Creek crossing:


Back at the base of Tanner's at the road, it was raining.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

"Rounds" uhh, u mean graupel?

[Brad Davis]

UDOT Artillery control Lt. Cottonwood 2/28/14 beginning at 6:30 a.m. Backcountry closure Lisa Falls through Grizzly beginning midnight 2/27/14. Closure expires 8:00 a.m. 2/28/14.

[buttahflake]

^^you woke up in the middle of the night to hike.
and that's the reward?
you fucked up, kid?

[ryan14410]

"Rounds" uhh, u mean graupel?

I was second guessing myself while looking at those. I just hadn't seen graupel that big.

[ryan14410]

^^you woke up in the middle of the night to hike.
and that's the reward?
you fucked up, kid?

Nope, didn't fuck up. Sick in the head. We knew it had already slid. It was a blast and much better riding than I thought it would be.

[skifishbum]

wow marginals the truely new awesome if bootering down avvychunders ya bootered up in the darks a blast
considerables the new moderate etc.
strong work anywhos
weds pics n obs 45 degreees @ 10ish 45 Spruces pm clouds and a stout breeezed saved er
fantsy to a creamy mich city up to a nfacer to a tribel dwelliin that needs diggin out

headed up for some hideaway
surprisingly untracked and skied stellar

headed back up n over thisa way

was gonna send dougs b.e.f

but ended up w into days
sun popped back out and were prob on the cusp of a little late but the pinhweely creamsickles and rollerballs skied pretty well
enough to put a smiles on johnny wasatches mug

alterating icey slushy luge slowshoed posthold out was well a blast would be pushin it
Yesterday rainin and 42 bout argenta
showed up to an inch or so of tahoe pow and fallin rhimed particles
thankfully temps dropped
low angled lovin skied best
although this oneplanker had a blast sussin out face shots

soli lockerdown so solbrighted over for a pio 2 dog lake poke around bout 2
winds picked up and were creating soft slab cornices
made it over only inadertantly creating 1 new snow sluff that some call avalaunches
temps continued to drop and winds increased
crystals were small and needlesque and lowered density

hard pressed to keep steeper aspects from crackin /sluffin
but high prob low consequence.

dl chutes had been cut skied and sluffed
skied well

[getoutside]

^^ keep bringing it

turns were good early today. direct north was way good as snow seemed to bond well resulting in minimal sluffing. saw considerable wind effect on several aspects. the ne/e aspects ridden had the suncrusted surface under roughly a foot of new snow.

[Brad Davis]

Backcountry closure in effect 0100 to 0815 March 1st. North Side of LCC, Lisa Falls to Grizzly Gulch.

UDOT will perform avalanche mitigation work above US-189 Provo Canyon on Saturday, March 1 from 0800 to 1000 hrs. Expect intermittent road closures from Nunns Park to Vivian Park. Backcountry closure in effect; Slide Canyon, Lost Creek, and Bridal Veil drainages including ice climbing areas accessed from Nunns Park.

[sethdromgoole]

Sorry to cunt up the thread, but have a buddy in town so gotta do my first resort day of the year tomorrow. Was thinking Pow Mow or Snowbasin, any thoughts? Looks like Powder got decent snow and had a bunch of shit closed today, but I've never skied either.

[happytimefunbox]

Sorry to cunt up the thread, but have a buddy in town so gotta do my first resort day of the year tomorrow. Was thinking Pow Mow or Snowbasin, any thoughts? Looks like Powder got decent snow and had a bunch of shit closed today, but I've never skied either.

I'm thinking wolf mtn is the right move.

Edit to add: I'll be at Snowbasin

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[happytimefunbox]

Toured in upper LCC from sw to n aspects. No proper pits but lots of poking and proding. Precipe toggling from graupel to big flakes and back with every other wind gust. Southern aspects were blown bare in spots from the nuke winds last night. Wind was still getten it in the upper elevations making visibility and travel miserable. Upper N faces were well loaded. Mid elevations too but not as bad more pockety. Still got some damn fine turns in sheltered n and w mid elevations. A foot of not really utah blower graupelly good times. Everything down low was starting to greenhouse a bit on our 2pm exit. Mediocre is the new awesome is the new catchphrase.

Skintrack stoke



Leroy Jenkins is not an asshole irl actually a chill dude



And is a strong skier



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[lhitchner]

Skied the steep and deep in Maybird Trees today -- steep and deep graupel, that is.

There was probably 6-10" of pretty consistent graupel on top of a medium firm base. It seemed to me that Mother Nature had dropped about a million boxes of powdered laundry detergent on the slopes, except the granules were larger and lighter IMO. During our lunch stop it was bordering on hail for a while, and a few granules were almost 1/4" in diameter. We were on the north-facing ridge just to the East of Maybird Creek (9,600' down to about 9,000'), and it was not affected much by the wind. It sure was the deepest graupel any of us have ever skied. But, it was easy, silky smooth skiing. My skis are not particularly wide (K2 Mt. Baker Super Lites 122/86/107 mm), but I had no trouble keeping them on top of "The Greatest Graupel on Earth". We saw no signs of instability, though we were mostly on moderate angled slopes.

However, at the top of our runs and at our lunch stop a couple hundred feet below the top in some trees out of the worst of the wind, you probably would have enjoyed the blowin' graupel, hail, sleet, and the wind chill better if you had a bit of Emperor Penguin blood in you. That wasn't enough of a deterrent to keep away a small crowd of skiers and riders, however. We were 4 in our group, and we shared downhill runs and the climbing track with groups of 2, 3, and 4. As we were starting our return run down to Red Pine Fork at about 3 PM we saw 4 or 5 more just coming up.

Sorry, no photos. We were haven' too much fun in the graupel!

[dyna1fit]

isnt that fun... 3, 4 what the fuck are you talking about? Ha ha Wasatch wannabes...