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07-22-2014, 03:24 PM #1
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Skiing Gunsight at Alta on July 21st
I hiked to Gunsight yesterday. Still plenty of snow, well worth the hike despite the wrong turn that turned a <1 hour hike into a 2.5 hour hike (one way).
So nice to be back on snow.
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07-22-2014, 07:48 PM #2
KING RATBAGGER !!! ...
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we sure are a strange bunch to be hanging on to every last snowflake ...
nice work ...
I'm guessing that was your phone? did you know you dropped it ???We, the RATBAGGERS, formally axcept our duty is to trigger avalaches on all skiers ...
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07-23-2014, 12:17 AM #3
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It was my phone. I put it there on the way up to get third person video, but the angle was a bit off so I didn't get anything worth saving.
Originally Posted by Shadam
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07-23-2014, 09:37 AM #4
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Fuck yeah dude!
"We're in the eye of a shiticane here Julian, and Ricky's a low shit system!" - Jim Lahey, RIP
Former Managing Editor @ TGR, forever mag.
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07-23-2014, 02:30 PM #5
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Considering some years, that actually looked pretty clean. Way to get after it!
Johnny's only sin was dispair
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07-23-2014, 02:35 PM #6
chasing the white whale
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Nice! Granny's Chute looks like it's still 400 or 500 vert and a bit fatter than Gunsight. Somebody's been up there making wiggles in the snirt.
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07-23-2014, 08:00 PM #7
Irrie Rasta Dog Copilot
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#xovercares
"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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07-23-2014, 08:39 PM #8
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Well done
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07-23-2014, 08:43 PM #9spook Guest
i thought this was going to be about that east coast dude with the pre-installed ski boots and the handgun.
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07-24-2014, 05:19 AM #10
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An interesting take on one of my favorite runs in the world. Wow, "plenty of snow?"
Strong effort."We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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07-24-2014, 09:21 AM #11
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The base is still fat up there, brah. That strip of snow is at least as deep as it is wide. Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl
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07-24-2014, 09:30 AM #12
Orange Mocha Frappuccino!
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Nice! That looks like a fun patch to ski.
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07-25-2014, 09:47 PM #13
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I went back today. Four days made a pretty big difference. A few feet narrower, much more difficult to ski. Still a lot of fun. Probably going again Saturday and/or Sunday, I doubt it will last much longer than that. Then I guess I'll have to make the long hike to the snow field on Mount Timpanogos.
Last edited by Sh4dow; 07-29-2014 at 01:19 PM.
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07-29-2014, 01:16 PM #14
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I went back on July 27th. So much more had melted. What had been a nice long stretch a few days earlier was reduced to five jump turns.
Looking up from the bottom.
Looking up from where I hiked to. The snow above this point was too narrow to ski so I stopped here.
Looking down at those last few turns.
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07-29-2014, 03:00 PM #15
Orange Mocha Frappuccino!
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Why is it that I appreciate your last post as much as I appreciate your first post?
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07-29-2014, 08:12 PM #16
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2nd trip was probably pushing it a bit, but gnarcore none the less.
I'm sure Hugh would approve.
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07-29-2014, 09:17 PM #17
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I definitely appreciate the effort. I am also verrrrrry thankful for PNW volcanoes.
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08-01-2014, 04:03 PM #18
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I really wish I had gone up last week. Sucks I missed July turns after a strong June (at least for me moving to slc in early June) in the goal to ski every month.
Awesome tr though.
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08-02-2014, 01:50 AM #19
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I LOVE THIS
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