WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS AND ASSORTED DRIVAL 17-18

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Sir heady is a know-nothing dipshit. Pay no mind.

Snow held up well under the cold Temps and moderate wind. Yesterdays easterly up-slope wind on the pc Ridgeline affected the very top but mid-thigh deep once you got half way down.
waist deep if you're 5'2

[Vets]

Today at Alta.

[mall walker]

Sir heady is a know-nothing dipshit. Pay no mind.

Snow held up well under the cold Temps and moderate wind. Yesterdays easterly up-slope wind on the pc Ridgeline affected the very top but mid-thigh deep once you got half way down.
waist deep if you're 5'2

sick shots. we should walk around in them thar hills one of these days.

[sfotex]

Damn almost went up there today ... snowbasin patrol amateur hour compared to the cottonwood areas?

Ask Heather Gross RIP , Jesse Williams RIP, and Max. Shut the fuck up.

[sfotex]

Word on the street is that it was a full burial and she was found on random probe strike.

Also said to have run long, on No Name. 1st day No Name has been open this year.

Update on KSL:
Two skiers — a brother and a sister — were sent to hospitals after an in-bounds avalanche at Snowbasin ski resort Sunday afternoon, according to the Weber County Sheriff's Office.

The sister, who is 23 years old, was buried under about 4 to 5 feet of snow for an estimated 5 to 10 minutes, said Sgt. Terance Lavely.

People skiing nearby saw the avalanche and took note where they last saw the woman. They began digging immediately and the woman was located by ski patrol, Lavely said. Once she was recovered, she was flown to a hospital. She suffered only sore muscles, Lavely said.

The woman's 35-year-old brother rode out the avalanche but broke a rib and had sore muscles. He was transported to the hospital by ambulance, Lavely said.

The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. in the No Name area of the resort.

[SirHeady]

Whoa chill y’all I was asking a question. I have no idea about their avy mitigation protocol .


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[sfotex]

Whoa chill y’all I was asking a question. I have no idea about their avy mitigation protocol .

They probably just wing it......I'm sure their liability insurance company is pretty chill.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

sick shots. we should walk around in them thar hills one of these days.

I was thinking the same thing the other day when I saw your ski pics in my neighborhood (Powder park?) better make it soon though, heading back east in a Couple weeks.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Update on KSL:
Two skiers — a brother and a sister — were sent to hospitals after an in-bounds avalanche at Snowbasin ski resort Sunday afternoon, according to the Weber County Sheriff's Office.

The sister, who is 23 years old, was buried under about 4 to 5 feet of snow for an estimated 5 to 10 minutes, said Sgt. Terance Lavely.

People skiing nearby saw the avalanche and took note where they last saw the woman. They began digging immediately and the woman was located by ski patrol, Lavely said. Once she was recovered, she was flown to a hospital. She suffered only sore muscles, Lavely said.

The woman's 35-year-old brother rode out the avalanche but broke a rib and had sore muscles. He was transported to the hospital by ambulance, Lavely said.

The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. in the No Name area of the resort.

Great to hear! Sounds like a heroic effort and a tragedy dodged.

Sir heady, These incidents are difficult enough on the rescuers and avy crew without nit-wits throwing out uninformed slights.

[whyturn]

I was hiking on fire road at base and heard copter and saw ambulances coming up. Hope they heal up ok.

[glademaster]

Strong stoke on this page! Looks like it there may be close to enough coverage now to make the trip west. Good Christ do I miss the Wasatch. I'll be back, and fuck, I'll even deal with the smog compared to the bullshit here.

[skifishbum]

saturdays obs include a tri u sighting and wife got hit by another lacking skills to pay the bills boarder
and great balls of fire every jerry, lee ,lewis, tom dick and harry in the canyon
with solitude limited terrain creating a multitude
solisunday didn't suck
hwy2heav opened skied one down to the lakes


hooked up with sfotex and headed out

donated some ptex to git there but
sfotex scrounges the white room looking for frogs and scorpians outside a percieved lack of danger in our several world class ski resorts

mrs. bum gits it done

#didntsuck



oh and no worries most heady southern transplant dipshits
aint gots the 1st fuckin clue on avvy migation

[yellofin]

Cirque opening was delayed due to a dud explosive. Just curious, anybody know how they deal with that? I can't figure it out.

Shared a chair with a patroller at Alta he was heading into Devils Castle he said they put locators on al of the explosives so His job was to locate the dud dig it up and carry it out pretty crazy and dangerous job just so we can enjoy the powder

[Shredhead]

Happened at 3pm. Was it really windy?

[mtnbiker/boarder]

I was thinking the same thing the other day when I saw your ski pics in my neighborhood (Powder park?) better make it soon though, heading back east in a Couple weeks.

BACK EAST hope for a visit and nothing seiuos or are u moving back for good ??? need to catch up whether skiing or dirt bikes.
stay well my friend

[My Pet Powder Goat]

BACK EAST hope for a visit and nothing seiuos or are u moving back for good ??? need to catch up whether skiing or dirt bikes.
stay well my friend

Haha thanks man! We'll just call it a temporarily permanent move; Who knows where we'll be in a Couple years, but first I have to head back east for now and start a family and prepare to raise a little ripper.

Would love to ski with ya, (I'll have a stowe pass) or bring your bike and we can overland the hell out of vt.


In other BC news:

This ski instructor is losing his job.

[Dshack89]

Just to add to the stoke, the shoulder was DEEP yesterday. Best powder turns I've had in quite a while.

Afterwards, it took me a while to figure out how I got so much snow in my bibs...turns out I forgot to close my thigh vents before dropping in.

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[My Pet Powder Goat]

Classic move. Lots of fun cross loaded pillows along the vertical e ridges that you can ski top to bottom.

It's Settled a bit today. Still good though.

[UtahOutside]

Big Cottonwood quick hitters got hammered by weekend warriors. Every aspect and open face was basically tracked out.



Despite that, we found some untracked lines, and damn the powder is still cold and blower. Hit west-facing glades - still have to watch out for logs though. One more good storm and this miiiiight feel like normal. Exit out of Bear Trap was... spikey.



Did not see any avalanche signs. Not even on the big stuff across canyon.

Definitely the coldest tour of the season so far...

[mall walker]

cold day, snow still great. w facing BCC ~10k’ was killer, and snowing at a decent rate down to ~7500’ when I left around 2.

[getoutside]

cold day, snow still great.

^ no doubt. great turns in mill d this morning, didn't see anyone until after 10. stoked to hear the girl is going to be alright. sweet picts abound. mtnbiker/boarder, when are you heading out?



the little man dug the fat skis this weekend. sent all kinds of shit sat. good times.

[mall walker]

nice day in the hood, snow still skiing great too. wish we had some more coming though...

[Skidog]

nice day in the hood, snow still skiing great too. wish we had some more coming though...

Again..the forecast aint looking pretty right now...will be VERY hard to turn this season around now..we really needed a big January.

[mall walker]

Again..the forecast aint looking pretty right now...will be VERY hard to turn this season around now..we really needed a big January.

yeah I'm not holding my breath. still, that snow ain't gonna ski itself

[spnce]

No dogs in LCC? Wtf is that shit? Fucked up my whole plan