Wasatch 23/24 Stoke Thread: Red Snake Coverage coming at you live from tgapp's fartba

[D-Roc]

I've skied out of Cardiff several times. Georges is seeing significant use. There's some tattered orange mesh across the trail in a coupla places. Have seen skiers and boot hikers on the up track, no guns. Surveillance?

White Pine is holding still good snow, all though the walk is long for some, worth going up. Seems to be more 'consistent' with windboard / sustrugi up high and soft low.

[alias_rice]

Seems pretty typical at Alta. With the parking reservations it can only get so crowded. Definitely a lot of jerries on groomers who think they are better than they are....I'm not taking my little kids out this weekend.

Definitely a lot of “maximum confidence, medium skill” people going 60 mph yesterday afternoon. I noticed a lot more patrollers posted around the hill telling people to slow down than you usually see.

Starting to look like a refresh is in the cards for next weekend.

[Yukonrider]

I've skied out of Cardiff several times. Georges is seeing significant use.

The 3rd (I think) snowfence has two interlacing trail cams pointing at it, I wouldn't do anything dumb by those fences.

[Yukonrider]

I circled the bird for 30 minutes looking for a spot yesterday, would have gone home and written a passionate rant on here about it after 15 minutes, but was trying to show a Wasatch virgin a good time.

Will skip today and get back at it Monday.

For real though I skied some really fun stuff yesterday, I may need to replace my rock skis after a run out p-tex point, but it was worth it.

[Shaaarrrp]

Today was surprisingly super soft at alta and even better than yesterday. Believe it not, it snowed for about 30 minutes

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[crankplank]

Found a little of that buff up high, nice to point the nose down. Lotta soft snow but man it was WARM

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[Lone Star]

i will do no such craven apologizing for snow but one can objectively say that the sunset hours have not been lacking.

[crankplank]

For real

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[D-Roc]

Anyone want to tool around Alta

[baron]

still fun out there! just did a few afternoon bird laps

Some my fav mellow lines on east face are still super fun and no where's near as rutted as a french girl on a sunday morning yet. Haha! JK o' course... & Happy New Years !

Prob be slippin' around bird again tomorrow advertising for levi's >ask 4 change

[alias_rice]

Nothing like riding a lift and looking down while patrol is loading someone into a sled and realizing it’s your kid. Turns out he tried to throw a daffy over a tree gap, caught his tip and got driven down shoulder first. Ended up with a sprained shoulder and a hairline brace fracture in his clavicle. Tough lesson about days to go big and days to pull it back. All things considered he dodged a bullet though since the doc says he’s only out 2-3 weeks. Having kids is fucking stressful sometimes.

Shout out to Alta patrol for getting him off the hill.

[WasatchFlatlander]

Nothing like riding a lift and looking down while patrol is loading someone into a sled and realizing it’s your kid. Turns out he tried to throw a daffy over a tree gap, caught his tip and got driven down shoulder first. Ended up with a sprained shoulder and a hairline brace fracture in his clavicle. Tough lesson about days to go big and days to pull it back. All things considered he dodged a bullet though since the doc says he’s only out 2-3 weeks. Having kids is fucking stressful sometimes.

Shout out to Alta patrol for getting him off the hill.

Geez that is tough. Glad he is ok. I got younger kids who aren't quite sending it like yours yet and I am always worried some jerry is gonna come in hot at 40mph and crush one of them.

[WasatchFlatlander]

Anyone been riding Brighton lately? Been there for a couple Saturday's this December and these reservations are quite strange. They say the parking is fully reserved but its now been 3 weeks where I have seen it not even close to full at 11 am. Not sure what is going on but I will say the commute up the mountain has been 10X better than last year. I could have left without issue at 8:20 to make a 9:00 start.

[Lone Star]

nevermind, tbatt, dont go to bed. that was the best torchlight fireworks in years at Alta this evening.

[Shaaarrrp]

Looks like everyone partied too hard last night

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[alias_rice]

ASP gave us a New Years gift and got Devil’s Castle open this morning. Probably wanted some compaction before this weekends storm. Nice to have a few fresh turns again.

[wra]

The 3rd (I think) snowfence has two interlacing trail cams pointing at it, I wouldn't do anything dumb by those fences.

Did a tour from Alta.
Upper Cardiff



I counted four fenced, two remain standing. No trail cams observed.



Still some clean lines in Ivory. Pretty beat up otherwise.
The snow play at Reynolds flat is...

[SJG]

the Alta parking is getting ridiculous. I had a reservation the other day and couldn't find a spot, had to drive home. WTF.

[Benneke10]

Probably a lot of tourists up there who were not aware of the reservation system or didn’t mind paying the fine. Has anyone else missed out on a parking spot at Alta when holding a reservation? I’ve never heard of it happening before.

[whyturn]

There was the bathrobe crew on New Year’s Eve skiing pretty classic look and cozy




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[Skirotica]

The 68 mm life can also be a rewarding one.

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This is the right move right now. I got some GS skis to compete with my racer spawn and have found them to be a great alternative to whining and crying.

[baron]

had a blast skiing little cloud yesterday...another week without snow though and it may start to get pretty dense out there...

So, HAIL ULLR! we would appreciate your blessings please sir

[Dshack89]

I took one for the team and tweaked my back.... it can snow now.

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[Dantheman]

Has anyone else missed out on a parking spot at Alta when holding a reservation? I’ve never heard of it happening before.

First I've heard of it.

[TheK12]

Probably a lot of tourists up there who were not aware of the reservation system or didn’t mind paying the fine. Has anyone else missed out on a parking spot at Alta when holding a reservation? I’ve never heard of it happening before.

Not supposed to happen but yeah, it’s definitely people not knowing or not caring and hoping they get lucky or accepting the ticket…


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