WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS AND ASSORTED DRIVAL 16-17

[Pegleg]

Had my first day at Solitude on Sunday - damn, Honeycomb is fun with 18" of snow. Spent the day lapping that traverse. Great snow and amazing how uncrowded that place is. Good times.

[beaterdit]

Heard there were a bunch of cops at the White Pine trailhead, anyone hear what's up?

According to UAC this morning a solo skier took a ride into some trees, was injured, and had to be evacuated. Yikes.

[jtran10]

Had my first day at Solitude on Sunday - damn, Honeycomb is fun with 18" of snow. Spent the day lapping that traverse. Great snow and amazing how uncrowded that place is. Good times.

That's funny. I was there on Saturday and couldn't believe how quickly everything got tracked out. Granted, it took until 10:30-11 to open the gates to Summit, and then Summit chair shortly after that, and noon-ish to open 1-2 Honeycomb gates (the rest didn't open to my knowledge). Maybe I was wrong to expect Powder Mtn in BCC, but it sure beat the 7 tram wait and icing issues I heard about at the Bird.

[Brad Davis]

UDOT will be testing some cornices in the mid canyon tomorrow afternoon.
With that, there is a Backcountry closure going into effect tomorrow morning at 0800 and running to 1600. North side of Little Cottonwood Canyon, Lisa Falls through Monte Cristo will be closed (no overlap (1000m) into BCC for this closure). Expect a highway closure between gates B and C from 3:30 to 4:15.

Thanks,


Brad

[WaistDeepGroomers]

Nice to see we almost had a run in SFB!

[happytimefunbox]

Yesterday thought we would try superior but it looked like shit so we bopped over to Toledo to do a Days and chutes had warmed and puked the previous day.



My splitboarder friend threw a bitchfit and decided not to summitt toledo bowl about 3 kickturns below and ride death plate satan snow back to Alta. Wouldnt wait for whatever corn cycle to cook off. I threw snowballs at him from the summit. A marine should never concede the high ground



I realized my hippy sandals were in his truck so my plans of days fork pow were dashed and boilerskidding commenced. At least I got a scenic.



Today I took Masshole Mike and his masshole friends sidecountry at brighton and did some laps off pioneer and found a little sneak that had no tracks on the advice of a friendly patroller. Those are our tracks from previous.



Dont worry it goes

[Brock Landers]

Nothing wrong with the occasional Masshole

[WaistDeepGroomers]

Nothing wrong with the occasional Masshole

Fuckin' right GUY. The valley has plenty no doubt. GO PATS!

[skifishbum]

solisunday presidential holiday edition over delivered & didn't suck
elevations your friend
props to patrol for opening hwy2h, egp and both sides of the honeys fore noon
and dispersin the crowds

uber athelete sfotex solisluts in his sar coat cause my dumb ass spaced my shell

[mall walker]

quiet chill day in mineral over the weekend, saw as many mountain goats as other people. didn't ski great but still beat working. the hiking trail on the way in had a couple of small bare patches but nothing too bad.

[tBatt]

Had some friends touring in the Rocky Pt area yesterday. They said some dude kick off a cornice on top of them (accidentally) on his way up to Sunset. He did a ski cut, ripped out a slide 80+ ft wide, over a foot deep, and it ran almost full track. He was solo, kinda scared, and immediately had 3 guys drop on top of him as he was trying to yell to them to not drop. Scary stuff.

Edit to add: found his insta. First three posts are about the same slide.

https://www.instagram.com/thereddski/

[mall walker]

Speaking of sketchy did anyone read the Y-Not obs from the other day by "Hugh Jazz"? lol

[happytimefunbox]

Skied emma ridgez above alta yesterday. Talked to a guy who said him and his partner kicked of a good size slide in davenport chute. Instabilities were there for sure... not a great bond with storm snow and the crust underneath as well as numerous slabs making routefinding interesting. We stuck to S facing and it was good turns up hi but pretty heavy near the trailhead.

[Kenny Satch]

How are things at Snowbird and Alta? (somewhat rhetorical)
Doing a 3 day trip next week
Signed
Kenny Wa-Satch Dreaming

Props to mbillie for directing me to the proper thread

[Skidog]

Can't speak for bird only assume. Alta is skiing great. Very filled in.

[Kenny Satch]

Can't speak for bird only assume. Alta is skiing great. Very filled in.

That's great news thanks.

[brutah]

i found a pair of ski poles at a little cottonwood trailhead last week. Forgot I had them, but if you or anyone you know lost poles last week hit me up with pole make/model and where/when you lost them and they're yours.

[JTrue]

Not the Wasatch, but Claymond and I got out of town to do some couloir hunting.

[Brock Landers]

Thinking of hitting soli tomorrow if anyone is around.

[straightlineorbust]

Thinking of hitting soli tomorrow if anyone is around.

Nope. No one is around.

Also, on the other hand, looks like this week is going to be great. Bird was skiing fantastic today, was expecting conditions to be real firm but everything was nice soft and wind blown. The last 100' at the bottom of peruvian were nasty, and pretty much everything below mid-gad, but otherwise it was a fantastic. Not certain if little cloud ever opened because the winds, but I presume skiing off the cirque would have been nice and creamy too.

Everyone should have fun getting at it for the storm skiing next few days.

[Trefin]

I'll be out there tomorrow, looks like it will be great.

[skifishbum]

Thinking of hitting soli tomorrow if anyone is around.

im in and got a shop pass comper 4 ya
pmed ya my digits

[smallies]

plush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWGJoPvQ5U

[smallies]

lower Tuscon..

[smallies]

Larry King Motley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWGJoPvQ5U