Wow. Sobering.
Sheds a little light on what detruser and the front lines are facing. How frustrating and exhausting this must be.
Especially with our current leader poo pooing the disease and...

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Vibes to the front line.
Will try to dish up powder snow skiing therapy.
Jimmy

edit: If the girls need a place to stay in the LCC and Rita can't provide, please call. A little further from...

I'll be in Harold's cabin, Smoking a spliff.

The smoking lounge at Harold's is definitely upstairs.
Too bad nobody has lived there in ? years, eh?

Two things not to forget:
A spark plug wrench and
No smoking between 6:30 and 7:30 am.

Hope to see you again this winter...

Bump.

Sounds like 1am closures for potential highway control measures excepting essential personel.
If parking is the limiting factor in ticket sales one can imagine that people will be lining up...

Nice stoke Dibs! Needed that...
And congrats mw, here come your best years.
Full circles bring something that cannot be explained.

So...
Game changer the last 24 hrs.
Hope Hicks taking the silver bullet.
I know covid shit is over in the padded room,
But,
Our odds just went way up to spin bull wheels and keep 'em spinning....

Been thinking about Snowbird having the parking lot be the limiting factor in ticket sales.
Won't that cause many to come up early?
Where will people interlodge during morning highway shoots?
Or...

Long as you don't wanna make out.
w/o a mask...
Sfb and Whyturn, a repeat of last year?
One thing missing:
the offspring won't be representing this year.
Phall let's have a beer. At least.
Be...

^^^
This.
The water we enjoy in the LCC tastes just fine.
Bar none.
The mines store it. They sure don't wreck it.

As for Grizzly?
Transportation corridor of the future.
Written in snow......

Hope you do, too, cuz that will mean bullwheels are spinning!
Nice to hear your keyboard, Ted...

Welcome to the club, brotha.
No one does.
Uncharted waters...
Just hoping that bullwheels spin and keep spinning this winter,
so we all can get our fix...

Shoulda referenced you last night.

Something I've been pondering lately is:
If a ski area is on public land and bullwheels aren't spinning...?
The Alta and Snow Basin are pretty good about...

Been looking into the crystal ball.
Only see one positive scenario and it's the pipe dream one.
We change behavior as Americans and use good practice,
or we develop a vaccine to allow us to resume...

Ahhh...
Thank you!

Owned a place there 10 years now, kids been occupying.
Planned on it for retirement.
Didn't figure on the exponential popularity of the LCC the last decade.
Promoting the gondolaworks venture to...

Side note on the two developers in Gondolaworks, McCandless and Neiderhauser:
They may be a couple of republican LDS politicians, but I ski toured with them a few times and they were able, savvy,...

Understood.
For me, ganjala first.
Just want them to shorten a foreseeable future with snowsheds.
Both are needed for the long term...

Well, today I e-mailed UDOT with my support for Gondolawworks... providing they can move the #s they profess. And with the new Doppelmayr system, maybe.
It is not one lift; like the Collins chair...

Agreed.
Wonder how many people an hour it's capacity is.
Couldn't find that info.

Been under a rock for a while not to have known about this.
Thanks, man!

All good points.
Hadn't thought about Wasatch County.
Something to think about...
How 'bout we get our child president to revoke the open space protection that the Hi Ute Ranch was preserved under...

Thanks for some education!
And I understand the different options.
What I'm hoping for is the snow shed option to start with, and the gondola idea rethought and planned on for the future.
Sorry I...

A little about the snow sheds.
I believe that they will only be under White Pine, Little Pine, and White Pine Chutes 1 + 2...the earliest and most frequent runners.
Might need correction on that....

Getting folks to a terminal in Summit County via interstate versus to the mouth of Little has many advantages.
Where ever the gondola's origin is I support it.
Just not the one they are proposing. ...

So...
This is what l had to say at the last SL County council meeting:

I've lived in LCC for 30 years, and worked as a ski patrolman, avalanche forecaster, rescuer, and dog handler for 40.
The...

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I don't know if my advice is welcome anymore and I realize you are newer to this ski touring thing, but try taking your skins off for the descent. Way more fun!

Back on the rails.
Sorry 'bout pricking up the thread boys...

"Sigh".
This thread is about stoke.
You are the anti stoke.
Bet your resume reads "makes enemies easily".
Jamie Pierre was friends with many of us here.
He really fucked up that day and left two...

l'll try one last time.
Think before you speak, son.
If you cannot then get the fuck outta this forum of friends...
This is a positive place and your attitude is unwelcome.
Go back to Joisey and...

Comin in hot, eh young 'un?
Think before you speak.
Same advice l give my own.
Maybe someone here will actually ski with you
not just use you as an internet punching bag...
Mellow out newbie...

Watching 3 folks with skis in an east facing couloir halfway down the south ridge of Superior. Looks like certain death. I think they are trying to kill themselves...

Getting from the peak to the chute is no big deal as a downclimb.
Specially when you're with someone who left skis on to descend Dromedary's E ridge!
Maybe the bird will quit giving us the bird and...

Snowing straight down and hard.
Should be good on all exposures.
Give your sluffs / slides a passing lane on the steeps!

Knock on wood, no call outs on either kooks or core.
Here's to the same with the coming snow...
Wish my bod allowed more freedom this spring...

Never been accused of being paranoid, but l was a Boy Scout.
Motto = Be prepared.
Been more like the ant than the grasshopper this last week.
Funny how those pantries stocked with a year's worth...

The human powered skiing record was set today for the LCC.
Remarkable times...

^^^
This.
Buckle up y'all.
Here we go...

I question the Baldy control work rationale.
When Snowbird is closed and the snowpack is stable.
To protect infrastructure? No.
To open for skiing? No.
To make teardown safe? No.
What's the...

The point for you is that through WBR we are allowed to rescue even you in the backcountry.
If you need it...
Know that there won't be air ambulance services for in or out of bounds rescues; have...

Word is that Alta and Solitude have convinced external powers to allow uphill traffic beginning tomorrow.
Teardown was done on Tuesday, but the convincing part took a couple more days.
Closure will...

I'm confused.
Bighorn is in the background here.
This is the N face of B.E.

I like that line for ascending the north peak; it has a more constant gradient. Not so steep as the bowl.

I drink my pee.
Saves on carrying water, it's warm on a cold day, tastes like chicken, the benefits are endless.

When we pioneered the Y Not in the mid 80's there was one piton at the lip courtesy of Mugs the summer before.
Next time back it was hammered useless, as have other anchors been over the years....

Taylor Martin is a badass.
But looks like he skipped Flattop!
Slacker...
Did a summer traverse years ago,
with a pm start on aforementioned private property.
Always thought ski photos above the...

Finally found the white courtesy phone.
Patrolling is one of the lowest paid professions.
And one of the more rewarding in many ways.
If one chooses it as a career one better be ready to be frugal...

Located with a dog and dug a teenager out of the gully in the runout in the early 90's.
He and two friends were headed to Lone Peak that way.
Justin turned back and his friends triggered a slide...

Sorry for my optimism last night.
Thought they'd work through the night,
but work on the highway ceased at 8 pm.
Noon might be a conservative estimate...
Have a fun day elsewhere, all.

Bad habit to forecast the forecasters, eh?
Guess we'll see.