Mystical moments yesterday:

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This one from a few years back is going to make you weep then:

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Skins >>> Verts unless it's steep and narrow. I'd also rather cross a skinner when hauling ass down a couloir than blow...

I feel like a whole lot of places should be named Boyscout ____. where have these yahoos not been rescued from by now?

Back on track, the disappearing skinner is a neat trick, thanks wind!
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We really lucked out with the Sickle, conditions were incredible and we didn't expect to find it untouched given that there were people at Fishhook at the time.
I felt bad for Brit and her partner,...

Good eye! #1 is Boy Scout, #2 is Sickle.
We didn't do any homework on Boy Scout and went straight up it, the chokestone stopped us. Would probably have gone with some dry tooling shenanigans but...

^^^ that must have been real fun to break!

Skinners and booters, they go together like wine and cheese!

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(2nd pic courtesy of a buddy, I'm the trench digger)

The Wasatch contrast. Ass deep in fresh snow overlooking a million people and change:

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Dog doing all the work:

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La Combe du Mt Joly?
Love seeing pictures of home! I miss that background every damn day...

^^^ very distracting background, I'd never be able to go straight with my head locked 90 degrees left looking at those couloirs!

Escaping the inversion which is currently choking SLC:

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Wasatch trenching. It was -2 at the car, that sun was nice when it finally reached my frozen ass:

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Sunrise skinner stoke:

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Panoramic skinner stoke with UT's two main bodies of water (not counting the unnatural Lake Foul). Gotta zoom in a bit to see the Great Salt Lake to the N:
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That it was...

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Early morning freezing booter stoke:

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Followed by mid-day perfect temps skinner stoke:

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Concluded by sketchy SE facing traverse over cliffs when it's too warm skinner...

Some Canadian skin tracks from a week in the Selkirks.
The thousand kickturns elevator:

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Into the sun:

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And over to the edge of things:

Funny you mention that, it was the obvious uptrack choice and I figured we'd be on top of Willard within the hour. 90 minutes later we were sitting below gnarly cliffs on the NE side of the peak and...

Very much. Your backyard is HUGE! And complex. I will definitely be back...

A few more Wasatch moods. Windy:

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Blue-birdy:

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Mystical:

This page is over the top. I want 79 more months of winter.

That is an old pic, I remember when he passed through UT and went straight to the most aesthetic line. The video of him exploding in the apron after pretty much straight-lining the whole needle is...

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^^^
Bet that didn't suck on the way down.

My personal highway from yesterday:

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Painfully think snowpack and easy trailbreaking I see...

What a difference 24 hours can make...

Pre-storm Wasatch bony ridge skintrack on Saturday:

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Storm-day Wasatch trenching on Sunday:

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New Year slogging in the Bear River range, land of the rime:

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Another one, when the digging doesn't go so well...

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Wasatch trench digging.

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Shark fin ridge skinner...

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Lazy Wasatch afternoon with low 20s temperatures instead of the forecasted arctic cold conditions...

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Paradise:

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Critter booter:

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People booter:

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LCC a couple weeks ago:

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