Great day today, we got 6 or so runs, and they were all excellent. 8" or so of fresh, although it seemed like more in places. The new snow is of the fluffy variety, and no slab activity was observed. Sluffs running on steeper slopes however. If the winds pick up, this blower will definitely get transported.
We got a slightly late start, and followed the crowd up from the church, so Day's had seen some traffic by the time we got there.
Beautiful morning
Luckily, we were inspired to travel a little further, and we found some solitude, and some better looking snow.
Adam finding a pretty deep 8 inches.
Hell of a way to start the day.
We lost the light after that, but a full day was had, with a lot of really nice runs.
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Thread: Wasatch 1-5-07
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01-05-2007, 10:11 PM #1
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Wasatch 1-5-07
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01-05-2007, 10:13 PM #2
Did it snow last night?
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Awesome!
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01-05-2007, 10:17 PM #3
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Dude, the second one is ridiculous. Hope you didn't track it all out.
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01-05-2007, 10:24 PM #4
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Sweet pics!
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01-05-2007, 10:29 PM #5
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01-05-2007, 10:34 PM #6
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Looks good out there. Nice pics!
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01-05-2007, 10:40 PM #7
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Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8" looking pretty good!
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01-05-2007, 10:45 PM #8
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mmmmm how I miss those little 8 inch storms.
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01-05-2007, 11:11 PM #9
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Those are the best looking 8" storm pics I've seen in a long time. Very nice.
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01-05-2007, 11:13 PM #10
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Nicely done Gramps. Way to get it.
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01-05-2007, 11:18 PM #11
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photos are always stoke spreading, but your ops are of the most value ... thanx for sharing D!!
did you guys dig any pits on any north facing slopes??"... she'll never need a doctor; 'cause I check her out all day"
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01-05-2007, 11:22 PM #12
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Is that how you measure 8" in the Wasatch?
excellent!
Originally Posted by grizzle6
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01-05-2007, 11:31 PM #13
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No, I should do that more just for my information, but we haven't even gotten a big enough dump on top of our poor snowpack lately to make me dig one out of concern. We did a lot of pole probing, and all aspects seemed more solid/firm than I would have expected. I think all of the N facing stuff we were on had seen some skier traffic and wind though, so that might have had something to do with it. I observed a lot more rotten snow in the pink pine area yesterday. You know it's rotten when you can't even dig a cat hole to take a dump in... Originally Posted by Xover
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01-05-2007, 11:50 PM #14
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If that is 8", I can only deliver like 1" to my wife.
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01-06-2007, 12:00 AM #15
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too much info. Originally Posted by RootSkier
If that is 8", I can only deliver like 1" to my wife.
Nice work Dave."In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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01-06-2007, 12:31 AM #16
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You bastards...
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01-06-2007, 12:33 AM #17
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Dug a full pit skiers right of Jaws on a 30 degree N Ne slope. Don't have Wow like interweb skills to post a graph but, observstions were ~ 5' snow depth
Ground facets not to damp and rounding out. Much lower Temp gradiant than previous weeks simliar aspect Silver Fork pits. Shovel compression quite strong and shear tests failing at ground level, although rueschblock failed after full jumping on a layer 1/2 way down, between Nov and Dec. storm cycles
No real instabilities aside from minor wind slab cornices. Definately sluffy on steeper aspects.
A shot of my partner Toph enjoying a healthy 8" in Sliver Fork on our way over to a well tracked Days
And the peek back to check on sluffage shot
Would post more stoke but some theiving asshat swiped my partners camera from outside the shop. Hope to maybe see some maggots out and about tomarrow."When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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01-06-2007, 12:47 AM #18
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1" PPS Originally Posted by RootSkier
I can only deliver like 1" to my wife.
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01-06-2007, 01:30 AM #19
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Amazing how much deeper 8" of fluffy blower is than a lot of the heavier snow we've had this year in CO. Had similar experiences today.
Strong, strong work, gramps! Nice TR!"I said flotation is groovy"
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01-06-2007, 10:58 AM #20
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Thumbs up!
I've got more suits than Liberace, but less than Eastvailhucker.
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01-06-2007, 11:17 AM #21
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wow! ...all the moreso as i'm on EC
beautiful pics
thanks for ...sniff... sharing
...likewise VT could use two or three inches
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01-06-2007, 11:38 AM #22
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kickass Gramps! I'll take 8 inches like that anyday
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01-06-2007, 12:11 PM #23
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fkna, nice stoke! 1 full week before leaving...in SLC 1/18 thru 1/24 at least! Got a place right by the 7/11!
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01-06-2007, 12:36 PM #24
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great shots gramps, great stoke
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01-06-2007, 04:36 PM #25
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Nice Gramps. Very nice.
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