Wasatch Conditions 13/14

[happytimefunbox]

did it stay to snow in lcc? how much did they get, I can't tell on any of the resort websites. tomorrow a pow day?

Yeah it's probably gonna be warm and gnarly tomorrow. Might not want to waste your time the pow's gonna be all schralped up.

This guys website is all you need to know....http://www.wasatchsnowforecast.com/

[Brad Davis]

Backcountry Closure is in effect N side of LCC, Grizzly Gulch to Lisa Falls. Est opening @ 0800 3/31/14.

[Marshall Tucker]

[QUOTE=skifishbum;4212954]

great picture!



Net week looking rough. oh well, bad snow > no snow!

[kokomas]

Yeah it's probably gonna be warm and gnarly tomorrow. Might not want to waste your time the pow's gonna be all schralped up.

This guys website is all you need to know....http://www.wasatchsnowforecast.com/

Thank you. Despite all the work I gotta do looks like i will be hitting Alta. Orange pants, green helmet, lhasas if anyone wants to take a couple runs

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[skifishbum]

wind funk

bdaygirl gits sum

send it

more estrogen smiles and pow

[Orash111]

Hey All,

I've moved back to the US the past couple days after 5 seasons in the alps, 4 while at the university and the last one just ski bumming in chamonix for 3 months.

Now looking for my next university thing in the US. Hanging at my folks place in SLC while searching for a post-doc.

Most people I've toured with in the wasatch are now out of state, on a trip to AK, or work a lot unlike me right. Looking to tour anytime any day. Up to rock climb and ice climb as well as head further than the wasatch for other mountain adventures. Might as well make good use of my time while I have it I guess.

Send me a PM. If you are open to me joining you.

Just as a reference on me, a couple of TR I posted on TGR last year:

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...-Jan-26th-2013

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...-it?highlight=

[Canada1]

So good right now!! Damn work took me into the office, but I'll be back on it in the AM. Get it!!

Mounted new skis on Friday and they have had nothing but fresh lines!!

[Orash111]

Lone afternoon tour today, though saw the PM's some of you sent me, so you'll get a call soon. Patsy Marley was too deep given the density of the snow. Got some speed and good turns for a few seconds and then had to tour out cause I chose the steeper fall path. Wind transport plus snowfall equals slightly over knee deep when riding and upper thigh deep when having to wade out even with this maritime snow.

[heffnasty]

today did not suck

[sethdromgoole]

Anyone know if you can park overnight in the UTA lot at 6200 S & Wasatch? Don't want to get towed...

[joetron]

Not sure. UTA vanshare vehicles are there overnight, but I'd probably just put it up on the street in that neighborhood across wasatch if yer concerned.

[skifishbum]

holy stellar epicness of sum gottoness
everywhere you looked it was goin on


the farmers return to tend crops

bout 11 cloud deck dropped and additional accumulations accumlinated
mixed bag mostly dendriteal but periods of rhimed particles/graup

skied a davenport down to the trade route and up
little spicey gettin into the shark tank but no rope needed


skied alot better than my ability to photo it

and yup them ski eatin sharks got me

good shit gotten in that hood

headed up days
sun peaked out a couple times
some cardiff stoke



Bnanner days didn't disappoint


csred up for a 4:20 drawin the day to a closer

good to the last drop bottom 500' definately had greenhoused a bit


other than poppin a small soft slab on nanneers
snow was pretty well behaved
didn't take a pic but here's my tips


surprised at how much it settled from tues gaggin faceshots
git ya sum 2day

[MMP]

FKNA Dibbs

[FussyDutchman]

Umm, hellz yes!

[claymond]

Some big, fast moving sluffs running on a stout crust in east facing terrain between THC and top of Patsey Marley. 3 laps in Wolvie, north facing was deep, east facing had crust under the new snow varying from semi-breakable to solid. One shallow, wide windslab popped out on us

[The Gnarwhale]

I can see my tracks from Weds, which i guess is testament to how it's been relatively quiet in the Sheep Pen. Crocuses are blooming in the valley but it's been the best 2 weeks of winter above 8k.

[powholic]

Sorry for crapping up your bc board. If anyone needs passes for this weekend lcc or bcc resorts we have an extra for 3 days. $40/day.

Again, I realize 99.8% of you bc, so do I in the PNW, meeting flat lander buds hence the lifts.

[getoutside]

but it's been the best 2 weeks of winter above 8k.

^^ amen!

[Bromontana]

Poked around the PC ridgeline from the gate at Guardsman's. Better camera is being rehabilitated so no fun pics.

New snow varied between an inch or less where exposed to 8-10" in sheltered NW-N-NE. Average 6" of dry pow on top of dense pow in the Katie's area of south monitor. USA bowl even rode well with a few inches on top of a breakable crust.



Light snow and wind mostly with a few short periods of sun. 25-30F up til 2pm departure. Don't expect a bad crust tomorrow early or much heating in general occurring today.

[tBatt]

POP goes Superior. Must've slid within the last 45 mins or so.





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And again?

[alev]

Watched the slide creep down the bottom of superior today. very cool

[powholic]

Another whoring of your conditions page - sorry - we left a day early and have 3 "Super Passes" with 1 day on each. Good for 3 lift tickets at Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton.

$120 for all three - I'll ship them to you. I'm back in Portland now.

[lhitchner]

I'd say Alta's report of 6" storm total as of this AM was a bit of a stretch -- no, make that an outright lie, IMO. I dropped into Wolverine from the Patsey Marley Ridge then did 2 runs on Figure 8. By my estimates I'd say the "storm snow total" was more like 2"-3", if that much. The new snow was thin enough over the old sun drenched base that I almost had to make ever turn a jump turn. Talked to another guy who had arrived eagerly at 7:30 AM hoping to get the freshies, and he was equally unimpressed and disappointed. However, it was a beautiful day to be out in our back yard!

[Johnny Deep]

I'd say Alta's report of 6" storm total as of this AM was a bit of a stretch -- no, make that an outright lie, IMO. I dropped into Wolverine from the Patsey Marley Ridge then did 2 runs on Figure 8. By my estimates I'd say the "storm snow total" was more like 2"-3", if that much. The new snow was thin enough over the old sun drenched base that I almost had to make ever turn a jump turn. Talked to another guy who had arrived eagerly at 7:30 AM hoping to get the freshies, and he was equally unimpressed and disappointed. However, it was a beautiful day to be out in our back yard!

It is a bit of a stretch going from one drainage into another. Surpisingly, however, Solitude and Brighton reported what you experienced....2-3".

[lhitchner]

It is a bit of a stretch going from one drainage into another. Surpisingly, however, Solitude and Brighton reported what you experienced....2-3".

Yeah, OK that makes sense because I was in the BCC drainage and was closer to Brighton than to Alta (the top of the Milly lift is less than 1/2 mile away from Figure 8 Hill). But, when I left the Grizzly Gulch parking lot and headed up the Albion Road there was less than 2" (more like 1") on the ground along the road side. There must have been a big drop in snowfall between Alta's snow stake site and the Albion Road.