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02-13-2020, 04:02 PM #1376
I've been looking at Dolphin Chute from my living room in Sandy for a while and decided to go check it out today. The approach was fairly straightforward and hiking in/out via an established summer trail avoided what could have been horrendous bushwacking. Snow was a mixed bag of semi-supportable crust and surfy heavy pow, but the views were 10/10.
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02-13-2020, 04:28 PM #1377
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02-13-2020, 04:53 PM #1378Banned
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I drooled over that very spot for years and never got the right snow down to the valley. Could see your line from my old backyard I'll bet. Looks like we lived pretty close.
Also drooled over the open field just to Lookers right of your line. Great score man.
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02-13-2020, 05:24 PM #1379Registered User
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I love this thread. Super stoked that I took advantage of the JetBlue 20th birthday sale to book a late April long weekend to SLC.
My last bc day out (last April) was Superior to Cardiac/Mineral and out to BCC. Red Pine is high on my list for this April.
Until then....I live vicariously through youz guyz!
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02-13-2020, 06:00 PM #1380pura vida
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02-13-2020, 06:26 PM #1381
WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS and ASSORTED DRIVAL 19-20
there is something about lines you can see from your house, they weigh on the mind and are incredibly satisfying to look back at from your house at after the deed is done.
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02-13-2020, 06:36 PM #1382
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02-13-2020, 07:22 PM #1383
I'm done with ice in Tahoe. Road trippin over. Skiing Bird bird bird and Alta Friday to Monday.
Where da OGs at?
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02-13-2020, 09:32 PM #1384
Road tripping from Big Sky where I met Bunion and Harry. Jackson with DJ. Will be skiing Altabird Friday thru Monday. Anyone up for turning and burning?
Post up a meet up.
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02-13-2020, 09:49 PM #1385Registered User
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02-13-2020, 10:05 PM #1386pura vida
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02-13-2020, 11:15 PM #1387"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
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02-14-2020, 07:25 AM #1388
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02-14-2020, 08:44 AM #1389
Yeah I mainly skinned up, I tried booting for about 100 feet early on and bailed because I was wallowing in the snow...definitely should have brought my verts. I put in a drunken skinner that meandered mainly along the lookers right flank of the chute in the trees/scrubs.
I was taking it slow, it probably took me about 3ish hours from my car to the top. The most dangerous part of the day was hiking back down the somewhat icy trail with my skis and boots on my back, if you do take your kid then shoes with good traction would be key.
Oh and FYI FYI unfortunately no dogs are allowed above BST due to it being in the watershed.
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02-14-2020, 09:09 AM #1390
after staring at this thing for the last couple seasons I finally hit it. proper steep up top, around 50 and sadly that was breakable crust as the good stuff sluffed lower down. the middle and bottom skied great though
as usual when going someplace new(ish) I saw a lot of other things that looked more fun, including this toledo bowl lookalike
you can't really tell but there's tracks up there for now at least...
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02-14-2020, 09:20 AM #1391
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02-14-2020, 11:33 AM #1392
Nice work on the Dolphin! Definitely hard to ignore when you stare at it from home or look at it every time you drive to the canyons. And that feeling of diving into the valley is hard to beat. Can't believe you ignored the "no winter travel beyond this point" sign though...
I'm surprised you didn't try to ski back down the Sawmill trail, that thing is such a nice skin up (not). Can't be worse than continuing down the chute which is how I got off the run BITD. Lots of cliffs, lots of brush, lots of water, all of the cursing...
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02-14-2020, 11:50 AM #1393Banned
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02-14-2020, 12:16 PM #1394
There's a classic "DON'T PROCEED ANY FURTHER UR GUNNA DIE OMG AVALANCHES DOOM AND DEATH" sign where the Sawmill trail switchbacks and heads into Big Willow canyon, right at the end of the long flatish traverse that brings you to the toe of the Dolphin. Cracks me up everytime I see it. That place sees a lot of motivated snowshoers action and the FS tries to keep them from traversing under the steep NW faces that avalanche semi-regularly.
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02-14-2020, 01:43 PM #1395
Yeah the bottom of that chute is as classic of a terrain trap as you will find...definitely not the place to be when the snow could move. I heard that there is another approach that has you stay on Sawmill for a bit farther and then you skin up thru the trees to the E of the chute, but seems like the bushwacky factor could be high.
Skinned up E Castle today and booted a few extra steps to the top for a helluva view (props to the side steppers who really earned it):
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02-14-2020, 02:06 PM #1396
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 from the body of the dolphin sometime later.
Hoping he was out of the way, they yelled warnings and descended then, saw no sign of him, and found his car still parked at the trailhead...
Took his mother to the site the next summer.
Think that sign is courtesy of Mrs. Heil.Time spent skiing cannot be deducted from one's life.
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02-14-2020, 02:56 PM #1397
Oooof, ugly story and sobering facts. I'll look at that sign differently now, I always assumed it was to deter motivated hikers from getting exposed to the Dolphin.
The gully below the trail is definitely the stuff of nightmares and the stuff looming above is steeper and bigger than it seems from the valley. Same with the Crow's feet, you only really see the beautiful and opened section of the run from the valley but the deep and brushy terrain trap below has very murderous instincts.
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02-14-2020, 05:49 PM #1398
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02-14-2020, 09:31 PM #1399
What a crew came together today at the 'bird. Met up with friends Ron who is overstaying for the weekend storm and Criag who can't. Locals Anthony and Mark. And Super Punani. Dude you rip! Gonna be fun to ski with you more.
Finished up with some fun tailgating in the parking lot with whole Ktown crew and those above.
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02-14-2020, 09:46 PM #1400
Hi. In town from Tahoe (needed a powder fix) and blacked out this weekend so wondering where you go touring in a storm. I remember tagging along with Bruce T a few years back and we went to a ridge of aspens. I think it was in big and i think it was west of solitude. Any help much appreciated and repaid to visitors to Tahoe.
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