WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS and ASSORTED DRIVAL 19-20

[srface_hoar]

Looks like a mistake that got lucky

[srface_hoar]

Looks like that was No How

Looks like a mistake that got lucky.

[Brad Davis]

Couple of east bowl laps and out emma 4. Boissal called it. Tons of destruction visible but we didnt see any instability on our tour. Super easy skintracks fun four inches on a edgeable soft base my knuckledragger buddy had a hoot. Driving down saw this slide off Little Superior. Looks like someone went for a ride. Maybe a track in the bed surface further down. Called it in to Alta Central. Yikes!
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Thanks for reporting this, However this avalanche was from the UDOT howitzer on 2/7/2020. Someone skied the hangfire yesterday then the bed surface then a multi slope traverse back to little Superior apron Again thanks for reporting even if the info is off we appreciate being able to check things out that we may have missed and having all the eyes of the community helping us out! Also can we report and maybe cite people for bad fall line skiing choices.... just saying

[Xover]

^ The Ghost of Liam returns

[Boissal]

Frosty morning in the pen:



Wind carnage with sticks and bark everywhere and the occasional decapitated pine:



Wonder which way the wind was blowing:



Modern farming techniques on display: turn radius >> 5 x sidecut radius, one person per chute.



Solid fanning in the aprons:

[happytimefunbox]

Looks like that was No How

Looks like a mistake that got lucky.

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[tgapp]

Frosty morning in the pen:



Wind carnage with sticks and bark everywhere and the occasional decapitated pine:



Wonder which way the wind was blowing:



Modern farming techniques on display: turn radius >> 5 x sidecut radius, one person per chute.



Solid fanning in the aprons:

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing! I feel personally attacked with your modern farming pic - I need a safe place where I can ski like a goober all I want. How's the snow up in White Pine?

[Boissal]

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing! I feel personally attacked with your modern farming pic - I need a safe place where I can ski like a goober all I want. How's the snow up in White Pine?

Pics are from yesterday. The snow was good, unbreakable stout crust with 2-3" of cream on top and the occasional spot of exposed glaze from wind scouring. It was absolutely perfect for hauling ass but not that great at low speed when every turn would be on the crust. Things were heating up on SE and SW by mid afternoon and the crust was decomposing nicely. It's going to be interesting on N-facing aspects once it gets buried though...

[dfinn]

Went up Scotties for lunch. Was hoping to find some of this fast cream cheese that everyone was talking about. The cream cheese has mostly gone bad. A few good turns but a lot of solid crust with half an inch on dust on it. Good way to test out some new skis anyways.

I couldn't really figure out where the crust would and wouldn't be though. It didn't seem like it was from the Sun because even the shady aspects with trees were a mixed bag.

[Boissal]

Went up Scotties for lunch. Was hoping to find some of this fast cream cheese that everyone was talking about. The cream cheese has mostly gone bad. A few good turns but a lot of solid crust with half an inch on dust on it. Good way to test out some new skis anyways.

I couldn't really figure out where the crust would and wouldn't be though. It didn't seem like it was from the Sun because even the shady aspects with trees were a mixed bag.

Lowest third on Scotties was a bit rough yesterday with less cream cheese than higher up. At least the brush is down at the bottom.
The crust is everywhere, up to at least 10,900' on NW aspects, down to 8,500' in E-facing treed terrain. I'm sure it's on all aspects at all elevation.

[mall walker]

Went up Scotties for lunch. Was hoping to find some of this fast cream cheese that everyone was talking about. The cream cheese has mostly gone bad. A few good turns but a lot of solid crust with half an inch on dust on it.

how solid we talking? cuz solid crust sounds like a huge win over breakable crust right now... lol

[dfinn]

Pretty solid, I only felt like I had to work to get my tails to release a couple of times.

[Boissal]

Didn't break through once on Saturday or Sunday, even when jump-turning and trying hard to punch through to stop. Took some effort to get the tip of a pole to go through while skinning. The only breakable crust I saw was in E/SE/SW areas that had heated up and where the crust had started to soften.
Anything above 9k that hasn't baked in the sun is as close to a groomer as I've ever seen in the backcountry. Sunday was like a late April morning after a cold night, perfect travel conditions and the feel of being an hour too early for the corn harvest.

[mall walker]

works for me, thanks gents

[Boissal]

works for me, thanks gents

You should consider changing your starting elevation from 5500' to 7800' like us civilized people. I know you're allergic to upper LCC but right now it has its advantages

[dfinn]

Not sure what it's like in other places but I certainly didn't feel like I was getting any sort of unfair advantage today by starting at 7600. I was worried I might have some regrets about going to moab to ride bikes this past week. No regrets were felt.

[mall walker]

pffft... I'll stay in my beloved mount olympus wilderness until it melts!! (or until being oncall for work forces me into the upper cottonwoods again) I mean I'm sure there are still three or four spots on a ridge somewhere I haven't stood yet!!

[skifishbum]

^ The Ghost of Liam returns

ifin the wows comes back my winter will be compete
well ya know
#skipthecottonwoodshitshow



within eyesite

ifinyouonlyknowthepotatoes

[new yabyum]

[QUOTE=skifishbum;5890387]ifin the wows comes back my winter will be compete
well ya know
#skipthecottonwoodshitshow



within eyesite
[ATTACH=CONFIG]315125[/ATTAC I have seen the future, and it's small, low key, and North of the big city.

[Dshack89]

Anybody know if a partner is required to exit the Gad 2 gate at the bird (assuming they open it of course)?

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[snowaddict91]

Anybody know if a partner is required to exit the Gad 2 gate at the bird (assuming they open it of course)?

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They didn't require one last year anytime I went through. Happy to be your partner though if I'm not at work!

[mall walker]

very cold, 2-3" on a smooth supportable crust, and nobody around this morning



one in the glade to check out the snow



oly wilderness delivers again

[Skidog]

very cold, 2-3" on a smooth supportable crust, and nobody around this morning



one in the glade to check out the snow



oly wilderness delivers again

sooo smooth...looks fantastic.

[One (+) Sentence]

Not sure what it's like in other places but I certainly didn't feel like I was getting any sort of unfair advantage today by starting at 7600. I was worried I might have some regrets about going to moab to ride bikes this past week. No regrets were felt.

what was available down there? Amasa Back/Ahab zone only, or more?

[dfinn]

Not much. Amasa zone (all of ahab was good but some snow/mud on the upper climb), some of the trails right in town and Sovereign was what I rode. Tried to ride some of the stuff by Bar M (deadmans, killer B) but it was really snowy and muddy so I bailed on that. There was snow on the ground once you got much above town at all.