4-27-06 Dromedary South Face Video

[Trackhead]

Skied from the summit of Dromedary today, via the south face with Tri-Ungulate and APD. The line off the summit is just about 100 yards east of the common Tanners descent. But this one is much more fun, as it leaves directly from the summit, follows an asthetic couloir, then descends and meets Tanners proper. The total descent is somewhere about 4,300 feet of fall line skiing.

The problem with these S. facing lines is the heat. You sit around at 11k waiting for the snow up high to soften, meanwhile, the snow down lower gets dangerously warm. So you end up skiing frozen snow up high, corn in the middle, and glop avy debris down low. But any descent off a summit is a good one.

Gotta love the Wasatch. Boot up a 4,300ft line from 6am to 8:30am. Summit a nice peak. Ski down to your car. Get back and have a vid edited by 2pm.



Seth photo:


17mb-4:42 minutes. If you have ADD and can't watch hiking, or the approach, then fast forward to 1:52.

Dromedary South Face Video

[JoshP]

Can't watch the video until after work, but nice job on this, that looked super good when you pointed it out the other morning.

[hoarhey]

TH, nicely done on the vid, as usual.
Big thumbs up on the music choice.
For me, his music resonates strongly.

Thanks again.

[AltaPowderDaze]

nice vid. wish i had ear plugs for some of that side slipping up high.


a few more pics for the day.

derek on dromedary


pfeiff, coalpit & lone peak


glide in broads fk off E twin.

[teledave]

Nice "Good Morning" from Tri-U.
Great vid, although it looks like the conditions weren't the best.

[edg]

I *love* that filming angle on the tele turns. Just looks damned good (02:30ish). Awesome vid, TH.

edg

[Hunterski]

Gracias Senor Trackhead!

[hucksquaw]

good stuff.

snow conditions looked a little less than ideal however

[gramps]

Nice as usual, TH. We had fun in the baby terrain today, I'll put up a few pictures in a minute.

[Tri-Ungulate]

Can't believe how fast you got that vid done and posted TH, especially considering how slick it is.

So just as we're getting geared up to push off (carefully getting boots in bindings on a 55 degree aspect), I hear a beeping coming from APD's pocket...

Me: Is that your phone?
APD: Yeah.
APD: [answers phone] Hello? [...] Uh huh, yeah, nope we're OK, we'll go check it out.
APD I'm glad I answered that one.
Me: What was that all about?
APD: Snowbird Patrol just spotted a slide in Tanners [the gulch we're in] with a powdercloud and everything. They can see the crown from the top of Hidden Peak, and see new debris. Somebody recognized my car at the trailhead and they called to see how we were.
Me: Uh-oh. Don't you think we would have heard something? I didn't hear anything.
APD: I didn't either.
Trackhead: I didn't either.
Me: Let's get the hell offa here.
APD: Yeah.
Trackhead: Yeah.

So the remainder of the descent was with that nagging feeling something might cut loose, despite the fact that the majority of the of the snowpack seemed quite bomber with a good refreeze (as evidenced by the chatter of our skis). Only isolated pockets of rottenness were felt on the way up. The best skiing was (not surprisingly) easterly facing, though I was a bit leery of that aspect after the warning we'd gotten. I was actually glad the bottom was glop, as it made skiing through the babyheads and TV-sized blocks in the slide debris below a tiny bit more manageable.

Expressed a sigh of relief on getting to the bottom. Skiing was much better than I expected it would be, especially the mid corn. Thanks again TH and APD for waiting for my slow ass on the way up, always a good time skiing with yez.

[xpost from ttips, sorry]

[Woodsy]

Me: Is that your phone?
APD: Yeah.
APD: [answers phone] Hello? [...] Uh huh, yeah, nope we're OK, we'll go check it out.
APD I'm glad I answered that one.
Me: What was that all about?
APD: Snowbird Patrol just spotted a slide in Tanners [the gulch we're in] with a powdercloud and everything. They can see the crown from the top of Hidden Peak, and see new debris. Somebody recognized my car at the trailhead and they called to see how we were.
Me: Uh-oh. Don't you think we would have heard something? I didn't hear anything.
APD: I didn't either.
Trackhead: I didn't either.
Me: Let's get the hell offa here.
APD: Yeah.
Trackhead: Yeah.

nice little community we have on the skis, eh?

amazing.
Dromedary,
amazing.

[PNWbrit]

Thanks - that greatly improved my day

What's the music?

[AltaPowderDaze]

I hear a beeping coming from APD's pocket...

Me: Is that your phone?

i talked to those guys today and looked for a crown from the peak but all i could see was the 2' x 80 footer that we talked about being old. i still think that was a point release w/o a powder cloud, not a slab. the witnesses may have seen the snow falling off the couple hundred feet of rock and mistaken that for the cloud.


woodsy,

it is very nice to be in the community. when are you coming back?

[Franz Klammer]

What's the music?

I think it's Manu Chao.