WASATCH STOKE, CONDITIONS, OBSERVATIONS and ASSORTED DRIVAL 20-21

[snowaddict91]

Yep found the pms from him. Fuck

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Sometimes the world is too fucking small.

[mall walker]

ah shit. kid was 23, I remember him posting here. RIP bud.

[happytimefunbox]

Sometimes the world is too fucking small.

Goddammit man...

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[snowaddict91]

ah shit. kid was 23, I remember him posting here. RIP bud.

I think I bought him a beer at the pharmacy once after skiing. I suggested the tram club (big surprise there) and he was like "well this is kinda awkward, but I can't..."

[D-Roc]

Guys,

Lets set the attacking and squabbling aside. Its a tough day for many of us. Time will heel, but we need to respect each other and show that we are a community and support for everyone here.

I lost a couple friends here. Its been a tough week. Lets come together and show some love.

[east or bust]

This is really just heartbreaking to hear.

Skied a tram lap or two with straightlineorbust at the bird a few years ago. Stoke was high with him, and he absolutely lived up to his username.

RIP Tom

[Phall]

When it’s safe I think a well deserved wasatch mini is in order. To ski, to talk, laugh, cry, put faces to the names, punch each other in the nuts, drink, eat, yada yada. Much love to the tribe this week. Been heavy


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[telefreewasatch]

^^^
Yeah, man.

[mall walker]

^^^ yeah... lotta people here I know by handle and not by face. and I’m thinking now that’s not good enough

[tBatt]

Slalom gates down Main Chute. Snowbird logo on High Rustler. Packing the ASP vest pockets with gay porn... oh, wait
Jimmy, is there truth to someone pushing a dummy off the cliffs below the DC Sidestep onto Devil's elbow, or is that an inaccuracy of your Main Chute poachers?

Tom was the former roommate of a couple of my touring partners. Never met the kid but the homies are devastated. RIP.

[Phall]

We had a thing back in the east coast roll call(still going on) a big Ullrfest party in Oct/Nov, I once fell into a creek while pissing in 30 degrees weather, lots of blacking out, (but that was college). Thinking maybe something like that next fall could be really good, donations to SAR/charities/UAC, raffles, meatsweats, shot skis, huge bonfire. Anyone want to go in planning something next fall? pM let’s make it happen


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[tBatt]

We had a thing back in the east coast roll call(still going on) a big Ullrfest party in Oct/Nov, I once fell into a creek while pissing in 30 degrees weather, lots of blacking out, (but that was college). Thinking maybe something like that next fall could be really good, donations to SAR/charities/UAC, raffles, meatsweats, shot skis, huge bonfire. Anyone want to go in planning something next fall? pM let’s make it happen

Hard to have Fall bonfires around these parts but it could be cool. Usually there's a wintertime mini.
Were you at the last one at Jeff's property or Magic? Funny, we probably crossed paths there.

[Phall]

maybe, moved out here before the magic ones. Last one was at BigDaddy’s in grantsville, 08.
I think that’s Jeff? Things were blurry.

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[mall walker]

I’m too lazy to ever have organized it, but have felt for a while that an “after alta closes and it’s t shirt weather but you can still skin up the baldy shoulder” mag party would be pretty fun. get a shade tent, cooler, beers, take some main chute laps. sometime in may maybe, in a “normal” year anyway.

[JTG4]

Here’s to better times ahead. ^^ Sounds like a good time. Had a great trip a couple years ago, lift served mid-May powder at the Bird, followed by a Main Baldy lap. I always admire the sense of community here...and places like TAY or NYSB. I’ve always been pretty fortunate to hook up with locals on my occasional trips out west, some of whom I bet are active places like this. Always nice to meet new people IRL.

[Lone Star]

Holy shit TFW. At almost the same time you wrote that, I was telling both of these stories of past Alta/Bird patrol pranks in Funland. I had to qualify it by saying that I believed it to be true but never heard it from a first-hand source. The only thing I got wrong is I said penises had been through the donut holes. Great story and thank you for a needed comic interlude.

[wasatch_carpetbagger]

A small ray of sunshine during this otherwise dark week: incoming ikon blackout powder days...

[skifishbum]

im with mtt and consider it an addiction
and most who joke about crack aint never smoked it to know
and one of the smartest things ever written on tgr in regards to risk tolerances
would be joe strummers
"One mans missionary in the dark with his wife
is anothers auto erotic asphyxia in the confessional booth with a priest"
and 123doesheevenski's retarded rant one of the stupidest
congrats ill find ya a special snowflake award fer that gem
yeah lets build a new resort where no one wants one except him and finace it with costco 6 packs and day tickets and 3000 season passes
anyho lets git er back on the righteous track
from the rad dad of the day on the nordic one

to the dork dog gettin to explore somethins other than millcreek furtracks

blustery as fucks again up n and plenty of transport and snow quality fuckages goin on in that hood



almost went to work today im glad an enabler put my addiction problems in perspective
hell of a nice day to git out n reflex


the down didnt quite go as we planned as dork dog got sucked into post holing the gully bonking and needing me to skin back to git him

he says shredding the 25% pows the greatest thing evers

he aint spent a week in his namesakes hut on the ruth scored 7 1/2 sunny days and shredded the ak siky sic gnars while blue ice glaciers calved along side ya and im still pissed at pow pondo for loosing the viddy
im so fuckin outta shape, didnt eat , bonked hard and puked up pepsi in my shoe on the way home
pour a sip and burn one for the addicts who ODed
and git ya sum faceshots when ya can

shits lifechangin fer sum
im gonna haz to finally go be part of the cottonwood congestions problem cause tfw stories are better irl

[Xover]

Funnest day of the season thus far today! Windbuff was primo 💘

[altacoup]

Slalom gates down Main Chute. Snowbird logo on High Rustler. Packing the ASP vest pockets with gay porn... oh, wait
Jimmy, is there truth to someone pushing a dummy off the cliffs below the DC Sidestep onto Devil's elbow, or is that an inaccuracy of your Main Chute poachers?

Tom was the former roommate of a couple of my touring partners. Never met the kid but the homies are devastated. RIP.

The gay porn in ASP vest pockets was an inside job perpetrated by Alta lift crew.

Spring time summit sounds great. TBatt can be the snowmobile shuttle driver to upper elevation party


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[Lone Star]

only if i can wrap my arms around him up the mambo moguls

[oldskibum]

Well articulated.

Just read through the reports on Avalanche.org for all skier/snowboarder incidents out west this season, 15 mostly experienced skiers or riders lost, so far. As I was reading reports another snowmobile avalanche fatality was posted. Sobering.

Enlightening, too. If only there were a way to make every skier/rider intending to enter the backcountry perform such a read. It generally highlights what we all know this year, that a PWL exists. However, it puts an emphasis on how widespread that PWL is, from the Rockies to the Wasatch, all dating back to a two week period of cold, dry, high pressure at the end of November/beginning of December, which created a layer of weak facets in a low early season snowpack. Since then the relatively low snow year to dated has buried that dangerous layer of facets, but hasn’t been near enough to even begin to consolidate it.

This is science, folks. Science tells us, and accidents to date confirm, that this is a snowpack you currently can’t beat. You can’t even employ mitigating strategy. If you think otherwise you are fooling yourself, I don’t care how knowledgeable you are. Reading the reports, seeing the pictures of terrain, a good portion of it relatively low angle, slides below tree line, with skiers caught entering slopes from above and while skinning from below, with remote triggers and sympathetic releases, almost 10% of observed avalanches the last two weeks on south facing terrain. Beat it...no, you are lucky if you survive it.

We talk about risk tolerance, but this year, right now, requires a much longer, harder look at those words that are often casually thrown around. Assume if you go out and intend to do anything other than meadow skip 25 degree slopes with no exposure from above, achieved via a skin track that doesn’t have any exposure from above, even if you make (traditionally) “smart” choices, that your significant others/children/parents/friends won’t see you alive again. Do you really want to roll the dice with your life on the pass line?

No one wants to hear that, but it’s really that simple. None of us want to read any more fatal avalanche reports, not any more than you want to be the subject of one. Dial it back, live to ski another spring/season.

RIP to the departed, prayers to the loved ones.

[wstdeep]

im with mtt and consider it an addiction
and most who joke about crack aint never smoked it to know
and one of the smartest things ever written on tgr in regards to risk tolerances
would be joe strummers
"One mans missionary in the dark with his wife
is anothers auto erotic asphyxia in the confessional booth with a priest"
and 123doesheevenski's retarded rant one of the stupidest
congrats ill find ya a special snowflake award fer that gem
yeah lets build a new resort where no one wants one except him and finace it with costco 6 packs and day tickets and 3000 season passes
anyho lets git er back on the righteous track
from the rad dad of the day on the nordic one

to the dork dog gettin to explore somethins other than millcreek furtracks

blustery as fucks again up n and plenty of transport and snow quality fuckages goin on in that hood



almost went to work today im glad an enabler put my addiction problems in perspective
hell of a nice day to git out n reflex


the down didnt quite go as we planned as dork dog got sucked into post holing the gully bonking and needing me to skin back to git him

he says shredding the 25% pows the greatest thing evers

he aint spent a week in his namesakes hut on the ruth scored 7 1/2 sunny days and shredded the ak siky sic gnars while blue ice glaciers calved along side ya and im still pissed at pow pondo for loosing the viddy
im so fuckin outta shape, didnt eat , bonked hard and puked up pepsi in my shoe on the way home
pour a sip and burn one for the addicts who ODed
and git ya sum faceshots when ya can

shits lifechangin fer sum
im gonna haz to finally go be part of the cottonwood congestions problem cause tfw stories are better irl

Love this. Shows passion and how conditions are in your backyards. Passion is deep...conditions grim but still things can be enjoyed in it.

[oldskibum]

https://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/a...70&view=public
Final report of recent Colorado fatal accident
Three victims, buried "9, 11, and 20 feet deep."

[MTT]

https://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/a...70&view=public
Final report of recent Colorado fatal accident
Three victims, buried "9, 11, and 20 feet deep."

I had not even seen this one. Thats nasty. 1000 feet wide and 1500 feet down.
Good thing this has not hit the media like the Utah incident has. Local Reno station mentioned this latest Utah incident.

This Utah incident hit me because I kinda know the people and community. Everyone knows everyone. I was waiting to hear the victims were Maggots or the Children of people I have skied with. I am hoping it does not come to that.