WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS, AND ASSORTED DRIVAL 18-19

[getoutside]

must've been 25 headlamps going up pole line / flagstaff this morning. wish I had a better camera, it was a pretty cool sight actually. lots of folks out, the stoke was high although the temperatures were in the single digits... probably a foot or more new up high, wind affected in places, not in others. skied fucking great. west bowl / emmas getting nearly tracked out by dawn lol

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getoutside opening the door to the white room

^^ killer turns is spot on man! what a blast.

[jtran10]

Dusk patrol in griz last night, 3 hours of Alta laps today. All $$$

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[tBatt]

Strong winds yesterday afternoon, free refills on Stonecrusher.

10:15 start 1:00 drop in from the Turkey. SW facing was warm and snow badly balling on ski bases. SE facing was still dry. Real aesthetic out there today.



















10 day qpf is grim

[WasatchFlatlander]

Got 18 runs in at Brighton on Wednesday. Worked out really well. Got a $25 lift ticket for donating some old ski clothes followed by powder and refills all day long. There were some lift issues, but doesn't the most part we used the time to break and recover to keep on skiing. Fun times.

[skifishbum]

i guess alteratudes got a dozen rookie redcoats
props to them for gittin sumthins open
and allowin some old ski bums representing the sillytude skier compaction team to go visit an old friend

didnt suck all the way to the valley floor

and a couple from sunday

[alias_rice]

Did a few laps on Patsy this afternoon. Getting hot up there, it was 39 in the parking lot. Still fun though.

[Skidog]

Did a few laps on Patsy this afternoon. Getting hot up there, it was 39 in the parking lot. Still fun though.

Patsey is one of my fav spots. Can hold pow for days.

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[WasatchFlatlander]

Taking the five year old up for her last week of ski lessons. I think she is almost ready for "real" ski days that don't involve endless bunny hill laps. Btw for anyone whose got little ones. Brighton ski school is A+.

[getoutside]

^^ stoke ain't broke in this thread

24 and a light wind from the southeast yesterday. pretty quiet morning for some great turns

[tBatt]

Alta Periph tour in the morning. Braap machines got a lot of dry fork but the farmers still made right of it.



Sunset Saddle was nice. A bit of a wind skin for the first two turns.



Lots of sun on the ridge to Tuscarora. Wolvie shoulder still has sharks lurking. The run down to Alf's skied great.



Afternoon Country Lane



Frozen gloves got a little cold



220cm probe didn't find the bottom. Makes me think I should get a bigger probe.



Snow was dry all the way to the apron.



We dropped in around 3:30. The apron had a managable breakable sun crust.

10 day GFS looks like a chance for a couple light refreshers. Hopefully some help from a cold NW flow and the smog cloud seeding.

[mall walker]

^ sick pics!! hell yeah

[SirHeady]

Skier solitude today. Last time I skied Solitude Dale Earnhardt died. Pretty sharky all over today .... might go back on a Pow day.


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[WasatchFlatlander]

Wow great job TBatt. I went up to Brighton with my 5 year old. Was pleasantly surprised when she ended up skiing 1.5 more hours with Daddy after the lesson ended. Took her up Crest lift and down Pacific highway. She did so well. So proud.

[Boissal]

Poked around upper White Pine yesterday with limited expectations, mostly to get some mileage/vert in. Wandered up to Lake Peak to look around, the booter was sporty to gain the ridge with deep sugar below the wind crust. Maybird has definitely suffered from the winds, the scouring is impressive.



The NE face was thin and rocky but Lake Chute looked good and surprisingly not wind loaded. Supportable windboard up high, settled pow in the middle, variable but manageable stuff on the apron. No instabilities noted.







Great powder to be had in the sheltered slopes below the dam. Crossed back over to the Tri Chutes which looked wind hammered with fully extruded skin tracks, found more settled pow in the shoulder by the Birthday Chute. Columbine bowl was baking in the sun, skin glopping and roller balls were observed. Felt like April up there. Exited the tube which is filling in nicely.

Beautiful warm day up there. Everyone I ran into was psyched.

[mall walker]

^ looks good. pretty weekend, wind did a number on the snow in a lot of places. looks like someone skied seagull, upper chunk looked pretty bony to me lol





and from today, still found some soft snow in the mid elevation protected north, but the luge out is getting some sharks exposed... left a little p-tex up there

[getoutside]

^ looks good. pretty weekend, wind did a number on the snow in a lot of places

^ another solid weekend. fourth time i've been there but first time making turns and the turns were off the charts. one mandatory air required during the exit.

[UpperDaze]

Sup mags, just saw that Powder Mountain is giving away free lift tickets for tomorrow if you bring a qualifying donation (see link) -

https://snowbrains.com/powder-mounta...free-donation/

Might have to skip work and head up there

[tomo]

^ another solid weekend. fourth time i've been there but first time making turns and the turns were off the charts. one mandatory air required during the exit.

Upper Cardiff west facing? Hit George's yesterday

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[Dshack89]

I am overdue to test pull my ABS bag this season. Does anyone know a local shop that can swap the canister / cartridge? I emailed SnowBigDeal but they aren't travelling to SLC anytime soon. I'd prefer to save the gas money / $35 hazmat fee and find something local.

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[F#*k you cat]

Scuba Utah will fill your canister

I am overdue to test pull my ABS bag this season. Does anyone know a local shop that can swap the canister / cartridge? I emailed SnowBigDeal but they aren't travelling to SLC anytime soon. I'd prefer to save the gas money / $35 hazmat fee and find something local.

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[SirHeady]

Did POWDR just acquire Snowbird .... anyone else get that email just now ??


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[brutah]

well john cummings bought it a few years back and he is the CEO of POWDR last i checked........ so it wouldn't be that far fetched

[getoutside]

Did POWDR just acquire Snowbird?

my friend at snowbird said he got the news last week. they are trying to offset all the cat skiing business they will lose once mary ellen gulch opens.

did make some turns this morning. blustery at times but other times, not so much. temps close to 30 early. wind impact widespread but sheltered areas still riding well but a little more reactive than a few day ago.

[Skidog]

Did POWDR just acquire Snowbird .... anyone else get that email just now ??


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This was always the grand plan. Keep snowbird with a "Wasatch family". Cummings and Bass go way back as I understand. Made the deal right before dick passed. Dicks kids didn't want it.

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[bigdude2468]

On the surface not a big deal as family owns both Powdr & Snowbird unless they are combining them for a package deal. Would be interesting as I can't imagine that they would ever sell to Mtn after the PCMR fiasco. Though if it were me and Vail offered me $5 million more than Alterra I could swallow my pride.