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06-03-2019, 02:43 PM #2126User
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WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS, AND ASSORTED DRIVAL 18-19
Yeah, weird on the late risers. I've always thought of spring skiing (in the Wasatch this means anything after mid-march most years) as being a game for early birds.
Your description of Temple sounds right except that it's east facing. And not so skinny at the moment. Yes, the road is open all the way to the Loop campground, I'd say the walk to snow was less than a mile, and mostly easy trail.
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06-04-2019, 08:58 AM #2127
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06-04-2019, 11:17 AM #2128
Thanks, I meant to say East but I'm directionally challenged. Did you boot up the Shotgun and follow the ridge up and over the summit to Temple? I've only been up there once and it was a low snow year, the ridge looked pretty nasty. We skied back down and booted Temple, got to watch the sun set from the top, one of my favorite outings ever. It does look a lot wider than when I skied it, the top was maybe 10' wide with some interesting climbing to get past the cornice. The backside slopes look so good! Skiing out in the dark and dealing with the frozen ATV tracks to the winter gate was sub-par though...
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06-04-2019, 01:55 PM #2129User
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Yeah, we booted up the twins and then skinned the ridge to the peak, and decided while up top to traverse north down the ridge to the Temple. I was expecting the ridge traverse to be a choss scramble but it's fully covered, barely any rocks showing. The top of Temple has two entrances right now, you can't see it from my photo above but there is a lookers left entrance that meets the main chute a couple hundred vertical down.
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06-04-2019, 02:30 PM #2130Registered User
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East Ridge of Timp conditions? Anyone looked at or been around Timp to know what the East Ridge looks like? I'm seeing wildly variable conditions out there from perfect corn to massive debris fields. That line seems unlikely to be clean, but thought I would try to save a drive down there. Of course a good refreeze, clear night and early morning will be required...and might be a bit late for it to still go clean.
thanks in advance.
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06-04-2019, 02:43 PM #2131
I was at Sundance over the weekend. East Ridge proper looked like it went clean, but the snow line is well above Stewart Falls. You're probably looking at close to 1k of heinous bushwacking on the exit. Trust me, it's bad, BT;DT. If you want to avoid Type III fun, you might want to consider upper Primrose cirque, which has some great skiing on multiple aspects with an easy exit below the snowline via the summer trail.
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06-04-2019, 06:24 PM #2132
Went and skied the Twin Couloirs (well the east one) this morning. Bootpack up the chute was variable with a shitty amount of postholing, but the clouds kept the snow decent if a little scratchy.
Saw a few big naturals come down from the rocks and move a lot of snow from the peak as well which was kind of spooky, but between the clouds and lack of terrain above we were safe and comfy in the east couloir.
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06-05-2019, 06:45 AM #2133User
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^^^Nice. Had the east twin smoothed out at all?
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06-05-2019, 07:34 AM #2134AF
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Has anyone got after Ciochetti's ribbon?
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06-05-2019, 07:50 AM #2135Banned
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06-05-2019, 08:19 AM #2136
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06-05-2019, 09:06 AM #2137
not a good freeze overnight. thought about skiing the semi-hanging NE face of Sugarloaf down to one of those couloirs... took one ski cut, it was already quite wet and unsupportable and felt sketchy so I bailed back to the firmer and less steep stuff on the n ridge, this was around 7:30am. where it hasn't been skied to pieces, there still is a layer of unconsolidated snow above 10k' or maybe 10.5k'. if you are skiing the baldy chutes or highboy or something that has been hammered this is probably not an issue though.
also made it over 400k' for the year, which is neat. staggeringly the south facing stuff STILL continues to go the road (and is probably very consolidated) so that might be where I end up the next couple days. suicide is looking pretty fat and the apron still looks good too...
edit: also alta for some reason groomed a trail from around cecret lake all the way back to the grizzly th. so if things are still too firm or too mushy down low... it's an option at least for right now!
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06-05-2019, 09:46 AM #2138
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06-05-2019, 04:29 PM #2139
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06-05-2019, 04:36 PM #2140
another party (skiers) also did it that same day: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx8qCoMF1Hw/
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06-09-2019, 08:33 PM #2141
Overnight of 17 degrees made Snowbird a gaggle of fun today.
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06-09-2019, 08:44 PM #2142
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06-10-2019, 06:46 AM #2143User
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06-10-2019, 07:59 AM #2144
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06-10-2019, 08:43 AM #2145User
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I have no idea if it's official yet: https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-w...nel-backs-new/
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06-10-2019, 08:47 AM #2146Banned
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That looks like an awesome line, nicely done.
Although I can't help but think "for fucks sake, what idiocy" to rename a mountain to placate some SJWs who will never even go there.
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06-10-2019, 12:11 PM #2147
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06-11-2019, 06:38 AM #2148User
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06-11-2019, 08:40 AM #2149
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06-12-2019, 09:52 AM #2150
double suicide this morning
hard to tell from the pic but right along the rock the heat has melted the snow back. this goes down at least 7-8'
the apron is kinda sun cupped but the chute is skiing great - well consolidated summer snow. hardly a minute or two of dirt walking to the snow (but going fast)
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