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04-04-2020, 08:24 PM #2076Hungover & Homeless
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^what?
Yesterday. Skins on from Mutual Dell. 1-5” of dry snow on top of a 90% supportable sun crust. I ended up walking down the single track at the end to avoid wrapping my leg around a tree.
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I’m trying to dial it back so I took a swing a skate skiing. I’m more likely to end up in the hospital from that around the cross tow than skiing Baldy on my alpine equipment.
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04-04-2020, 09:50 PM #2077pura vida
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That exit is spicy. I kept em on until the last 2 switchbacks, wasn’t worth trashing the skis to get to the bottom.
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04-05-2020, 10:43 AM #2078
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Pretty soft out there!
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04-05-2020, 05:29 PM #2079
Agreed. N facing was getting pretty wind loaded and snow was a little touchy. Witnessed a natural cornice break that started a good size slide/stuff. S facing was variable. Not bad for April.
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04-05-2020, 09:32 PM #2080Hungover & Homeless
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^ was that Alta/Baldy? Reports of naturals on Sugarloaf and Baldy today. I skied a shoulder from the connection gate around 6pm. Still skied well to the angle station. Everything below that got cooked.
Are attachments not working for everyone?
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04-06-2020, 05:53 AM #2081
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04-06-2020, 09:19 AM #2082pura vida
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04-06-2020, 09:30 AM #2083
Some pics are working in some threads for me, but I can't even see what I have uploaded.
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04-06-2020, 09:41 AM #2084
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04-06-2020, 10:06 AM #2085
So below like 9k is cooked? Was thinking of going for a walk up to piss pass or something at 5PM but don't need to twist my knee is grabby mank.
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04-06-2020, 10:16 AM #2086
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04-06-2020, 10:21 AM #2087
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04-06-2020, 11:31 AM #2088
I went up and did a couple laps of Wildcat Face this morning and it skiied fairly well...but that's largely due to the wind resetting things. Snow turned bad just below the angle station.
Overheard another party saying Thirds and upper High Boy was good but down low was terrible.
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04-06-2020, 11:57 AM #2089
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04-06-2020, 01:22 PM #2090
God damn crusty old Windows 95 preventing me from spraying all over this thread and posting my Strava foot-by-foot shred analysis...
Or not. [SPRAY]
On Sat Ms Boissal finally allowed me out of the house. Either she was satisfied with my progress on the 5-star chicken coop or she got tired of cracking the whip and needed me out of her hair. Regardless, after a week without skiing a beatdown was in order.
Another asshole post-holing the skinner:
At least kitty (or fox or ??) is lighter than a slow-shoer...
Good things the winds had covered everything with a few inches of cream. LCC S side looking all kinds of pretty:
I didn't linger on top of the Pfeiff for long, winds were nuking and it felt colder than BC in January. The SW face was glorious though:
It took some effort not to go all the way to the bottom of Dry Creek. So much room and low angle goodness in that drainage. Also, acceptable scenery. Several lifetimes worth of skiing on these 4 peaks:
Spectacular mini-golfing on the W face of Chipman:
I was starting to feel a bit lonely on the way to Bighorn. I've been on the S face of Lone Peak a few times and it's huge, the back bowls of Thunder Mountain are flatter but feel even bigger:
The booter was in on the Bighorn shoulder, made my life easier. No pics of that section as the temps dipped back into polar territory, the raging wind came back, and I couldn't wait to get off the ridge. The S face had tracks but the wind had buffed it back to perfection all the way to the upper Hamongog.
Time to pay the piper and begin the endless slog to escape from UT county. The scenery is quite distracting:
Lone Peak had some proud looking tracks down the E couloir. Unbelievably scenic corner of the range:
I decided to skip S Thunder and drop into Hogum via a sneaky line a buddy skied earlier this year. The entrance is unreal, a nondescript notch somewhere on Lightning Ridge with a tiny sneak between massive granite gendarmes which leads to a perfect platform to transition. Better pick the right notch, the others are a bit more extreme:
A few inches of windbuff over a firm base peppered with sharks dictated a cautious approach:
The fucker is steep! I'll have to come back and make actual turns, as it was I had to wait a bit to open it up:
I skied out of Maybird last week and skinned back to White Pine to get my car and it was completely hateful so "skiing" out of Hogum (again) wasn't high on my list. I was enjoying my time in the pain cave and decided I needed some Obelisk in my life. Slogging across Hogum the wrong way:
The E faces did not fare too well on Friday. There were tracks in the Needle, someone skied debris top to bottom. Props.
Fortunately the winds were still at it and had kept things from heating up too much, making the skinner up the SW face of the Hogum Divide manageable. I ran out of water a few 100' from the top, food had been a distant memory for some time, and I started seeing things that weren't there (mostly cheeseburgers). The E face skied really well and I almost forgot my angry legs but below 10k things went to complete shit. The Red Pine trees and the summer trail exit shredded the remains of my patience and I got to the White Pine bridge screaming obscenities in the wind.
Shit escalated even more when I realized the car battery was dead and I terrorized the whole parking lot when the portable jumper refused to work. I was about to call Ms Boissal for a rescue when I remembered I had stashed a couple of beer in the snowbank. That calmed me down and I managed to start the car.
That is all. Keep the stoke alive Wasatchlanders!!
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04-06-2020, 04:46 PM #2091
/thread
Bunny Don't Surf
Have you seen a one armed man around here?
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04-06-2020, 04:48 PM #2092
Goddamnit Boissal you was supposed to stay home!
Holy shit that looked like an awesome tour. Think I'll go cut my lawn now. Cheers!Bunny Don't Surf
Have you seen a one armed man around here?
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04-06-2020, 04:52 PM #2093Lambaster
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KA tour Boissal!
"... she'll never need a doctor; 'cause I check her out all day"
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04-06-2020, 05:15 PM #2094
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04-07-2020, 05:07 AM #2095"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
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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04-07-2020, 10:58 AM #2096
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04-07-2020, 11:09 AM #2097
Ambulance was headed up LCC as I was coming down....hope everybody is alright
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04-07-2020, 11:46 AM #2098
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04-07-2020, 01:12 PM #2099
Not skiing related life flight
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04-07-2020, 02:07 PM #2100Registered User
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