Thread: Wasatch Conditions 11-12

for those of you who missed it:
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avala..._gulch_1162011

headed up pc way more snow in my crib hood than there

resort marketing view

reality

a bit of snow up high and skis need to get mounted

skidog

shindler delivers skis on a yeller fixie

some rook from the east gettin his first wasatch turns of the year

powderpondcoreshotsinmainchute
continuie to git sum 4 me

Did a lot over the weekend. Hit no rocks to speak off.

I love powder skiin'.

Skied Gunsight with dfinn this morning before work. 4" up high of low density snow. No instabilities noted. Good turns.

Originally Posted by JTrue

Skied Gunsight with dfinn this morning before work. 4" up high of low density snow. No instabilities noted. Good turns.

That was me behind you this morning in the blue, let me know if you head up early, I'll be around!

git it - git sum - git it - git sum

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Originally Posted by Alx88

Beautiful weather out there today. Nice wigglin' up there too.

I'm gonna go ahead and give Alx88 the first descent of superior of the 2011/2012 season! nice send dood! you still should have gone to alta though, that's where all the cool kids ski in the early season, i'm gonna have to take back your bro-brah status now

UDOT will be acquiring new artillery data in mid Little Cottonwood Canyon tomorrow, 11/09/11. The highway will have intermittent closures between the top of Seven Turns and Snowbird Entry 1 from 1100 to 1300. Please stay clear of the North side of the canyon between Maybird and Superior during that time tomorrow.

Thanks, Brad

bump!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up!

Well today was pretty damn good.

It definitely helped to ski on the slightly more northern aspects of the scree aprons.

Nice soft turns were had, and besides the sluff that I set off on the first turn (as seen in the first photo), no other signs of instability were noticed by myself.

barely missed you man, that's my buddy brad you snapped a shot of. first "real" turns i've had this year, nice bouncy consolidated snow. found some pretty stout, slippery layers underneath the new snow, almost felt like some little pushalanches were gonna get going but they never really took off. interested to see what happens when we get a big load on this stuff.

What's going on this morning in LCC. ^^Brad Davis says that LCC is getting bobmbed at 11am today. I just called the UAC hotline and It says that the date is Nov. 12 and said nothing about bombing lcc. Just made it up LCC now and looked at the UAC site and now it looks like there gona bomb at 630. From the uac site "Avoid all slopes above hwy
Closure Time:
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 6:30am
Anticipated Re-Opening:
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 8:30am"
(Dident see one cop on the road up arround 630. Nothing on AM 530 either, reader boards and no text from Canyon Alerts).. Hum what's going on?

Canyon Alerts still says "Nov. 9th, at 11:00 am The road in LCC between the top of 7-turns and Gate C expect major delays until 1:00pm"

http://updsl.org/services/canyonalerts

Don't get shelled out there .

Mid canyon shooting mid-day today(weds), town of alta shooting tommorow(thurs) AM.

^Thanks!

Tomorrow November 10th, Little Cottonwood Canyon will close at Gate B at 0630. UDOT will be conducting artillery data acquisition again in the mid-canyon, and sighting artillery in the upper canyon. Stay clear of North side avalanche paths from 0630 until 0845. Interlodge restrictions will be in place at Alta during this time; this means no skiing at Alta/ Snowbird during this period.

Thanks,

Bradley Davis.

Not too shabby for 25"

I poked around the upper parts of Silver Fork this morning. There is about a 65cm base on N aspects around 10k. Did a few quick CT's pulling out at CT16 Q1 and CT18 Q1 on the weak old snow from October.

observations from the moon. slippery skinning. glacial ice guarding main chute enterance. chute bumped out. ballroom traverse is set and tracked out. prettty standard alta obs.

Originally Posted by tyfalk

I poked around the upper parts of Silver Fork this morning. There is about a 65cm base on N aspects around 10k. Did a few quick CT's pulling out at CT16 Q1 and CT18 Q1 on the weak old snow from October.

http://utahavalanchecenter.org/obs_s..._pass_11102011

Looks like people were out pushing it today. Bummer
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avala...sight_11132011

Originally Posted by BLOWhERPOW

Looks like people were out pushing it today. Bummer
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avala...sight_11132011

http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avala..._nest_11132011
another. be careful out there! these early season powder frenzy days can get ya!

Originally Posted by camlax

http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avala..._nest_11132011
another. be careful out there! these early season powder frenzy days can get ya!

That was us. We were all up top when another skier stopped about 35 feet downhill of us and dropped in before us. Snow seemed stable enough up top and when I dropped in I triggered a small one. About 10-12 feet across and 12-14" deep. It slid with with for about 40 vertical feet before slowing.

Jason dropped in last and triggered the release. It broke about 100'+ across and 14" or so inches deep. It carried all the way down to the flats in the Eagles Nest area. Jason was able to ski out of it but it was pretty impressive to see.


Be careful out there!!

They were staging two rescue engines and alta pd and/patrol in Albion parking lot when I left. It is still backcountry at this point, be careful as hell.