Once you feel good with these, get the Estes Big Bertha. It is bulky and doesnt go real high but that is perfect for kids and people with shoddy vision. The Big Bertha is big enough to put a...

was happy to see signs and ropes in there again recently.

a few seasons ago I was taking in the view from pride rock with a friend on a socked-in pow day. we saw some sweet tracks in Comma and...

it lasted a few hours, if you go to alta alerts you can see a tweet about an hour previous to their "Baldy is open" tweet with tons of tracks in dogleg.

that snow was baked at 10:45 so it had to...

pretty please perlas?? :yourock:

Maybe I don't powder panic as hard but I feel like the weekend pow day shit show was as bad or worse ten years ago than now. was just watching an end of season video from 2010 of the red snake and...

sorry. my grandma doesnt like when people ride her ass and i don't like her being all stressed out about it, so i leave the back half of the roof cornice intact when i get her car ready now.

edit: optimism deleted.

the Washington Swingers group

edit: no seriously

It's February in Alta.....

PM me. Good location, excellent services

edit: are you talking skinning and skiing, beginner rope tow snow plow, something in between?

Great idea for a new, anonymous poster.

Summit is not new, or anonymous. Why are you trying to get him to narc on his sources?

was this a response to the meme, "say you are a beater without saying you are a beater" ??

if Thursday was Augusta National, this weekend was....the Phoenix Open?

Everybody sold out*, early Monday afternoon as soon as overnight interlodge was announced. each lodge probably could have sold an additional 50 rooms if they had the capacity.

*to their 20-21...

Luckily in this case plenty of time was given to get everybody out of the canyon. Super lucky they pulled the trigger on announcing the Monday night interlodge before the storm really started...

uggg tfw everyone's dealings with that one are so unpleasant and it makes me sad when i see nice people forking over huge cash for the things.

dfinn: :yourock: :yourock: <-- tgr version of...

I cant even tell what that is???

he might be busy right now. just a hunch tho

Officially a wrap at Alta. Time to try and find some whiskey and go do a TC impersonation to entertain the guests.

rewatched it today
https://www.captiongenerator.com/1666462/Skiing-in-Utah

Yeah, that's worked out real well for people the past couple weeks.

I wIlL sIgN a WaIvEr!!!11!

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the bottom half of the shot with all the tracks had snow before the storms started in december. If I had gone out there today I might have felt more comfortable skiing in the area that...

I'll add a GMD pie

final report available https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanche/59084

Let us know how your conversation with the DNR tip line goes, Bob.

^^^ would find it hard to believe DNR wouldnt have caught up to them by now if it wasn't a legit operation.

also

jfc tfw ya nut! thank you for sharing. did you ever do any on snow trips in the Winds??

only if i can wrap my arms around him up the mambo moguls

Holy shit TFW. At almost the same time you wrote that, I was telling both of these stories of past Alta/Bird patrol pranks in Funland. I had to qualify it by saying that I believed it to be true...

In.... 2010? 2011? There was a really nasty widespread surface hoar layer that was responsible for slides starting on slopes less than 30 degrees. I recall it being incredibly spooky but don't...

You speak of tolerance for risk. But what seems to be more of the case is that most of the people that are getting really messed up aren't necessarily more "risk tolerant" as much as they failed to...

poor form, best to log off til tomorrow.

this is a tough appeal you are trying to make considering that you are asking a private landowner in northern utah, a national park in southwest utah, and a forest service & blm unit in southeast...

^^^ hire a better pilot, one with a "can-do" attitude.

This incident reminds me of the Sheep Creek slide by Loveland Pass a few years ago: folks who thought they were in an "island of safety" were actually still in danger. D-Roc, looking back, how do...

^^^ where else am i supposed to post when alpinezone is down?

^^^ for years they wouldn't raise a finger and now that we're trying to avoid dense crowds, Lift Co is on it!!!

depends on overnight snowfall, timing of overnight snowfall, current snowfall intensity, expected snowfall intensity, winds, interest of other skiers, the whims and vehicles of the worst drivers, and...

jtran let me know when you want to do this, i can save you the trip. i have some beater skis i am not worried about losing in a first chair battle.

Drives me nutty. Can we get some new ads so we dont have to see that face?

the "rules" were made up and belligerently enforced largely by the dead guys in order to maximize their chance at getting first chair.

considering their rules condoned saving spots in line for...

wrote this about Rob after he passed:

Rob taught me how to powder panic.
One of our first extended interactions was during the March/April 2009 storm which dropped over 12 feet of snow in two...

fify :yourock:

is this the thread where I post a subtle brag about how the biggest impact the pandemic has had on me was the loss of a few hundred dollars worth of recreation expenses?

when you look at the complexity of all the options, living in a dorm with a bunch of people young enough to be your children doesn't sound so bad.

might not scale well enough to be a sustainable...

it's going to snow so much you are going to be skiing mambo for your first three laps on collins

^^ coupla gems that year when Collins was broke and you could Kitty-PeruvianMineral->Baldy to the High-T in the same time as all the poor sobs going to sunnysugarloaf. When Alta quit letting Collins...

F. Just deleted my edit. My great memories from that season from Comma eclipsed all the negative ice things. Except for a friend sliding on an ice crust patch getting into zone 5 and breaking...

the first storm after the 2011 MLK rain, patrol opened up the tower 10 traverse across west rustler and stationed a patroller by the saddle to warn people that although it was open, it was sketchy...

if the dude wants to be an insta influencer he needs to start showing up on the Shoulder at 8:30 AM on pow mornings.

edit: lol if he thinks thats gonna net him even $20 a day tho