WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS and ASSORTED DRIVAL 20-21

[gimpy]

you guys need to calibrate your troll radar

[detrusor]

My daughter has been making stickers...my fav so far


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[tgapp]

My daughter has been making stickers...my fav so far


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Cute, but I can't be the only one hoping that she made a "Kevin Says Alta Sucks" sticker

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[getoutside]

naturals in meadows, doug’s, and flanangans. wind drifts still a little reactive in west facing terrain on the up. the north side of east bowl skied well.

[D-Roc]

U approach from SF?

[whyturn]

There was some cracking on some of the east facing 30 ish slopes inbounds. It’s an old layer out there for sure. Be safe


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[D-Roc]

^ went up Silver Fork, definitely felt very fragile, i actually backed off a skin track that traversed a 40+ degree slope into a gully terrain trap. My spidey sense told me to turn around...

definitely heard a few whomps and also the pole plunge as i went along you could feel that bridge layer then just nothing til you bottomed out. However did notice some of the facets are starting to coagulate when compressed, so that is hopeful

[D-Roc]

Also do we want:

Kevin sez Alta Sucks
Kevin Says Alta Sucks
Kevin Said Alta Sucks
Kevin Still Thinks Alta Sucks
4 Out of 5 Kevins Think Alta Sucks

[whyturn]

So how do we get a run of change for a nickel. Last run had change for a nickle. Also maybe try the old my ski days are better than your vacation.


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[getoutside]

U approach from SF?

yes

[D-Roc]

yes

Yup found some of.your tracks , wind buffed it out nicely for a blank slate

[mar123]

mellow doggie surf






jumping around and remote triggered an avy... "what was that?"

[snowaddict91]

Found a handful of soft turns yesterday, and a shit ton of rocks.

[criscam]

Wasatch kid stoke. Got the kiddo out on his new tech set-up for a hike up to tlp. Thx to tgapp for the binding hook-up!

[snowaddict91]

Wasatch kid stoke. Got the kiddo out on his new tech set-up for a hike up to tlp. Thx to tgapp for the binding hook-up!
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Small world, we were chilling on the saddle when you guys dropped in. Way to start em young!

[mall walker]

A few weeks back I saw tickets (looked like warnings) on most of the cars parked up at guardsman pass. Is there something new I should know about when parking there?

the signage gets ignored a lot, but there’s really not a ton of legal parking up there. you can’t park anywhere at the plow turnaround etc

[tgapp]

Wasatch kid stoke. Got the kiddo out on his new tech set-up for a hike up to tlp. Thx to tgapp for the binding hook-up!

FUCK YEAH, this makes me stoked! what a ripper!

thanks to criscam for the beer hookup, that dude sure knows his way around an apricot kettle sour. honest to christ some of the best homebrew i've ever had.

[tgapp]

anyone here have a fritschi tecton jig i can maybe use for an evening?

can trade coffee, beer, other libations, or an atk jig

[zion zig zag]

FUCK YEAH, this makes me stoked! what a ripper!

thanks to criscam for the beer hookup, that dude sure knows his way around an apricot kettle sour. honest to christ some of the best homebrew i've ever had.

Can confirm on all accounts.

[Boissal]

Ventured into WP yesterday with no expectations other than testing out new liners and counting rocks + signs of instability. Found plenty of the former but barely any of the latter.
Coverage is thin at best and it's going to take another few feet to even attempt to hide the talus fields in the upper drainage. At 10k on N to NW aspects there's around 2.5' on the ground with the new snow having Sletted to about 1'. Below that it's an indescribably mess of facets and various crusts. Skinning on due W facing was actually tough with what a super stout crust below the fresh snow (sun?). Didn't find much energy in the snow pack, no cracking of any sort, only a few whoomphs around trees. It would be a very different story in wind-affected terrain but I felt that things lacked a bit of cohesiveness to be a major concern where I was (TriChutes aprons).

Gullies with more snow depth skied really well as long as you stayed light on your feet. Ms Boissal got a bit carried away and was attacked by a shark-log, I heard the sound of the ski hitting the wood and the subsequent face plant from 800' above. She laughed it off and insisted on another lap. We got chased away but a seriously wet patch of fog that rolled through and rimmed everything, very strange.

No injuries, no core shots, soft turns up high and high-speed battle skiing on the exit. Overall not great but certainly not bad, best day of the season for sure.

[schindlerpiste]

A couple laps near x-files and the bowl beyond. Fun

[whyturn]

Way to farm the pow man.


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[dfinn]

We got chased away but a seriously wet patch of fog that rolled through and rimmed everything, very strange.

Last couple of hours of the day yesterday was some sort of freezing rain/sleet type precip at the bird. Exactly what our snowpack needs right now.

I think I may have seen you as well criscam. I vaguely remember a little ripper coming down past me as I was starting to skin up griz.

[jmills]

We got chased away but a seriously wet patch of fog that rolled through and rimmed everything, very strange.

I didn’t see anything.

[Boissal]

^^^ looks about right. I was incredulous when I wiped my goggles and realized water was falling from the sky and on my face. In December. WTF... Usually when it rimes it freezes on the lens and I scratch the shit out of it with my glove, at least this time I didn't ruin things.