Wasatch Conditions 09-10

[ectreeskier11]

yeah leroy sounds like the one, right next to the woods that go from zoom to lc. glad to hear you pussed out, my assessment of the quality of the inrun was obviously flawed. had the inrun been good, would've been a fun hit. drew, thanks a lot man. wes (soul skier) dropped me off a huge book of dvds with some seriously quality shit, if i make it through that i'll let you know! sounds like i'll be layed up pretty well for a month or two tops, should be ready to go for next season though . i want to see someone hit something large tomorrow, looks like another MAY gem. also reminds me, my 18 month streak is now broken! damnit.

[Slaag Master]

ectreeskier11 - sorry to hear about your accident - hope you heal fast - hell at least you went huge. get back before someone complains. i cant believe you are conversing after that kind of injury - balls of steel.

[ectreeskier11]

more like brains of mush than balls of steel methinks but thanks. not huge by my (or anyone here's) standards, just sketchy. apparently my roommate checked out the pov last night, and advised me NOT to watch it. regardless, i'll probably post it up here as my last shot of the season (damn, at least i went out a bang).

[Slaag Master]

hey, ive skied the bird for 28 years and the biggest drop i have taken is about 15 feet on a steep landing and im never more than 3'-4' off the ground. charge admission for the pov! at times like this demerol and opium are a mans best friends. get well.

[TeleThor]

Damn Nate! Get better man. You hucksters are nuts.

Skied little chute this morning. Was surprised that no one had beat us to it, so we had to break trail in the deep from the shoulder to the top. A little bit of greenhouse effect gave the snow in the chute a short nuking, but it still skied great. Sluffs were packing quite a punch though, sliding on the pre-storm surface.

These last 3 days have been ridiculous.

[ImSearchingforPowder]

skied down next to little cloud, decided it was a good idea to send the cliff band far skiers right on the last pitch of LC, where most people jump off left and take it small, i saw an alternative and hiked up maybe 40 feet above the lip. had a tree in the landing to clear, top to bottom it was maybe 15 but i needed to take it a good bit bigger/ came in hot and caught something on takeoff. got pushed to far forward and lost a bunch of speed so my ski caught the tree i was trying to clear. snapped right at the boottop, wasn't a binding non realese issue as i think it was mostly the boot that caught.

shit mang, heal up fast!

[roverdoc]

Nice to meet you Nate...its a very small world. Dan

[schindlerpiste]

snapped my tib/fib at the bird today. everybody better fucking get some for me, obviously my focus is now on next season! on another note, the two runs i got this morning were pretty nuts.

Sorry to hear it, mang. FWIW, although visibility was less than optimal, the shots off the Cirque (both sides) were off the hook. Deep, fluffy, mid-March type snow.
Hopefully, they'll open The Road tomorrow, or Monday.

[ectreeskier11]

nice to meet you too man, thanks for stoppin in!

[Mark H]

Hit the west couloir of Kessler today. Definately noticed the greenhousing going on. Felt really humid on the way up. Top half of chute was slightly damp pow while the bottom half was cream with the occasional patch of death cookies. Totally stable top to bottom.

[jeremiahyawnson]

Sorry for cunting up your thread, but sorry to hear that ectreeskier11. I ended my 29 mo. streak this feb when I hit a tree. Really stupid mistake that I re-live every time I watch the pov of it.

But as you said, just have to focus on next season now.

And I wanna see you top this (*note the whimpering and yells for help as my leg is hyperextended around the tree). And in two seasons you mags may need to show my ass around these parts as bozangeles will no longer be my home after I finish skewl.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7b92AF4MI"]YouTube- How to destroy your right knee (not for the faint of heart)[/nomedia]

[powdork]

also reminds me, my 18 month streak is now broken! damnit.

don't be a pussy! you're gonna have a cast right? 10 turns on one ski should be no problem (or do you have to make 20, since it's just one ski?) then another quik run in early June, before too much melts away. July's gonna be the tough one, and will prolly require more beer than the first two combined. Good luck though, and if you need any help, hesitate to call.

seriously though, heal up quick. failing that, dibs on your gear.

[skifishbum]

Vibes brah, shit happens , ski err huck good or eat wood
drove up the fabled 210 past this BIRD place you're all yackin about. For a stellar day in Days. bit crowded up flag but everyone got sum fresh. some sluffing in fang /steeper shots and a bit of collapsing on skin tracks, but overall good stablity vis was in & out most of the day sun popped out late and lower elvation go a bit cooked.
thought we were gonna score good vis for the last run, got nasty
but smoke em if ya can light em

[ectreeskier11]

crazyskir, won't be watching that quite yet. haven't even watched mine. sitting in the hospital and seeing this much snow in the valley is soooo depressing. someone do something cool.

[schindlerpiste]

Dibs, GREAT video!!!! A+++

[Soliskier]

Dibs, GREAT video!!!! A+++

Really, I assume thats sarcasm? I love POV videos and don't get all the hate for them on here, but jesus dibs this one is horrible just like the other one you posted. Quality is awful to start with but it doesnt even matter cause you cant even figure out how to point the camera in the right direction! Plus waaaay to much footage of you standing in trees, looking at your partner, and generally dicking around... lets see some skiing! Please keep these to yourself in the future.

And do you have to start every thread with a mention of how crowded/uncool the bird/alta is and how you cant believe anyone would go there... Seriously every thread you somehow link to how crowded alta/bird is and how you dont like it there. WE GET IT!

[tyfalk]

^ well at least skifishbum actualy gave snow observations in his post unlike most of the posts in this thread latily about dope the bird has been.

[Boissal]

Mini TR from Friday...
Found ourselves breaking trail up Argenta - again - around 8am. Roadside choss, so crowded, gotta get there early or might as well go the the bird. Oh wait we saw one other party the whole morning...
The headwall was thigh deep fluffy goodness, great stability, cold as balls. We should have skied that but other plans led us to the top of Kessler, battle skinning and tree assists helping in staying warm



After a few scary encounters with angry cornices we found the entrance to the mower: boney and super sketch (downclimbing icy choss with skis on and mandatory airs). The sluffs were moving fast and packing punch, slabs up to 6" deep were releasing left and right on the death crust.
Grenalds mowing god's lawn:



The exit was fun as usual:



Creek not raging = not spring. Get after it while it lasts!

[sfotex]

Skied up towards Silver then down the south side then went up and skied south face of Patsy into Alta. Good stuff. Knee deep overhead blower. Had a few pockets of sluffy stuff moving on us on the steeper bits, but it was easy to get out of the way and let it run. Can't believe the south facing stuff was skiing sooo good. Saw a few parties out, the worst part was getting past the snowbird parking zoo to get to the upper Alta lot.

[smuggs]

wholy tamolie bird was redic, feelin bad for those who skied knee deep in the bc! little cloud, gad chutes and baldy waist-chest deep! birds mid-mountain numbers: 3 feet in 24 hrs; 7 feet in 4 days. and thats no lie.

[ectreeskier11]

my heads about to explode. there'd better be some fucking ridiculous stoke coming soon assholes.

[ectreeskier11]

hell yeah. i'm about to be on my way home and need some entertainment. anyone else submit an entry to that valle nevado thing? i wrote up a pretty nice sob story, considering august is about when it sounds like i'll be back i could really use that damn trip. provo, you want to put some influence in for me ?

[funkendrenchman]

wholy tamolie bird was redic, feelin bad for those who skied knee deep in the bc! little cloud, gad chutes and baldy waist-chest deep! birds mid-mountain numbers: 3 feet in 24 hrs; 7 feet in 4 days. and thats no lie.

I concur... best pow day of the year for me... on May 2nd.

[MESKIBUM]

Well, it started off as one of the best days of the year, until I heard a pop and my knee give out. Sean Zimmerman on Ski Patrol was awesome in helping me out. I just friggen moved here so I can do this stuff more. Great day to finish my season with.

[smuggs]

bird is eating maggots