Wasatch 22/23 - Gondolas, grooming highboy, and other comical anecdotes

[Phall]

Meanwhile the valley is a war zone 3 accidents and 12 cars immobile on my block of 1700s. It’s pure ice under the snow


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[rudy]

Shout out to altacoup for the free bindings. Much appreciated along w the assistance on getting up the canyon yesterday. Had some great turns w a few more on tap for tomorrow before the long drive home. My kids decided he’s going to the U of U based purely on the skiing.


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[Buster Highmen]

In an effort to take one car out of the LCC shit show, I went to Snowbasin yesterday. Really nice creamy turns, but more importantly I ran into my old friend Buster. As soon as I saw those giant DPS’s and that hat, I couldn’t help but smile. As annoying as the roads and lines can be, the relationships make it worth it. Good to chat with you buddy, sorry we couldn’t make turns.

Great to see you dear leader and chat it up.
I was worried that joining your group would have damaged the wee ones.

We'll see you in graubunden next year!

[D-Roc]

Thread drift here, but did anyone realize it was a powder weekend?

Lets stoke realign...

kiddo picked up the sign and started walking around the basement as I was stretching. Start advocacy young...



Saturday was all time at Alta, bought some new sticks and tooled around with a few groups. I cruised the whole exit from the Albion (kid in daycare) and was home in sub one hour. Felt existential lol.

Sunday ventured into Neffs with a couple buds, we had to reassess due to the traffic for the canyons, but man was it the right call - snow was deep - fresh lines down Abyss, Hobbs Coulie, + some secondary no names. No instabilities, wind or people - dare i say the exit was even pleasurable (for once).

Limited pics as there was more video taking then anything, but the booter up Hobbs is in!

[crankplank]

Big thanks to crankplank for making some turns and saving me a bus ride down. Another pretty epic day. I can hardly believe it's not even February yet.

Good riding with you too, you really came with the peer pressure i needed. Glad I waited out the closure, the drive down was a cruise.

Rode 9-3 at bird yesterday and my legs are toast, came down feeling like id been running a jackhammer all day. I dont think I've had a day without a powder turn this year, its really been incredible. When non/casual skiers ask how the season has been I have to check my enthusiasm lest they think im a crazy person.

[Dantheman]

Good riding with you too, you really came with the peer pressure i needed.

Heh, if you say there's some gnar you want to check out I'm probably not going to say no

[Trackhead]

Jesus, this thread is tough to read with the destruction of the Wasatch. Hoping to ski Snowbird next Monday with my kid, thankfully he's an early riser and doesn't mind predawn starts.

[baron]

Jesus, this thread is tough to read with the destruction of the Wasatch. Hoping to ski Snowbird next Monday with my kid, thankfully he's an early riser and doesn't mind predawn starts.

Snuck behind olympus and escaped the wind today
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Other obstacles were present...
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Damn Boys! Nice work to all of you! Making my dick feel slightly smaller lol!

Wanted to venture lower canyon since its been a while since many of the those lines were truly in. Made the jaunt up to Triangle, then booted the Coalpits to make sure i had no energy left.

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O'dark thirty and things are looking promising:

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Disappearing pooper:

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It was a looooong way to get into the sun:

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Which had a tendency to disappear into microbursts of snow:

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Steep and deep:

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Took some effort but we finally found the sun again:

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The fairest couloir of them all, even next to that beast of a face:

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A quick peek over the edge:

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And down the rabbit hole he goes:

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You got legs for one more? Cause I got legs for one more...

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Worth it?

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Worth it!

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#notcardiff

traffic sucks.yea>what does not suck is the stoke this season !

keep rallying folks! .hail Ullr

[cbgarrett]

Pretty nice this morning inbounds.

[Dshack89]

Pretty nice this morning inbounds.

Looks like you may have been waiting with me while powder preservation was in effect for backside lap #2? Reddish jacket black pants on some BGs

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[cbgarrett]

Looks like you may have been waiting with me while powder preservation was in effect for backside lap #2? Reddish jacket black pants on some BGs

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Probably. I was about 6th or 7th in line. Green 2-tone jacket. Almost bailed, but it was definitely worth it.

[Buster Highmen]

In the slot.
Big thanks to sfb and his spancer for kickass food and drink at the massing of maggots (bobmc was missed).
Awesome skiing with tgapp, icemang and tfw

[whyturn]

I can see what looks like powder 8’s off the backside of snow basin. I heard a little about an adventure Details?


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[baron]

today rocked at the resort

Soft velvet turns and fresh piles of PoW to pounce on

Sunny/ was nice to actually see further than 10 feet !

The super deep days are so fun, but days like today pay just as big of a return emotionally

[muted reborn]

I can see what looks like powder 8’s off the backside of snow basin. I heard a little about an adventure Details?


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Not sure what you mean, why don't you tell us what you heard? Those tracks looked like they were laid down by people who knew where they were going although WTF do I know about random tracks. I was thinking the long shit exit didn't look worth the few clean upper turns though. To their credit the better fun ways in that drainage were not safe to ski.

[Brock Landers]

I’ll be around Sunday/Mon/Tues if anyone’s around to ski a resort. Got no plans.

[byates1]

Not sure what you mean, why don't you tell us what you heard? Those tracks looked like they were laid down by people who knew where they were going although WTF do I know about random tracks. I was thinking the long shit exit didn't look worth the few clean upper turns though. To their credit the better fun ways in that drainage were not safe to ski.

Picked up skis from a mag in Ogden yesterday who said they skied from snowbasin to Ogden. Young buck and an older famous ish dude. I'll let him chime in

[whyturn]

Not sure what you mean, why don't you tell us what you heard? Those tracks looked like they were laid down by people who knew where they were going although WTF do I know about random tracks. I was thinking the long shit exit didn't look worth the few clean upper turns though. To their credit the better fun ways in that drainage were not safe to ski.

What I mean is I can see powder 8 tracks off the backside into the drainage. But I thought someone said SAR had to pull them out of the drainage It seems the juice is not worth the squeeze. West facing but seems like other shots make more sense. But what do I know it just looked cool like a powder 8 competition. TJ Burke?


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[muted reborn]

What I mean is I can see powder 8 tracks off the backside into the drainage. But I thought someone said SAR had to pull them out of the drainage It seems the juice is not worth the squeeze. West facing but seems like other shots make more sense. But what do I know it just looked cool like a powder 8 competition. TJ Burke?


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SAR pulled out a guy a week ago in that area who thought he was going down Sisters bowl and eventually decided he made a wrong turn and got rescued. Today's tracks were done around 1pm and a different unknown story.

[Shaaarrrp]

Hard to not feel lucky to get days like yesterday

[Dshack89]

Worth the sidestep

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[Dshack89]

Worth the bootpack

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[westoxified]

apron bench needs a spanking

[rudy]

Snowbird was incredible yesterday and we lucked out on the timing with openings. My kid hit his first double on the windlip off the knucklehead traverse but I’m to stupid to post a video…

[muted reborn]

Zoom in to see the rider - it’s not me.

I took the below pic from his starting point earlier today, it just didn’t feel right with wind board throughout and big wind loading down to the right. No signs of control work unnerved me - probably unsurvivable if a small pocket released and yer swept off more cliffs than the pic shows. And it’s a bit blind too, ha.

Here’s to all the lines we would like to ski but probably never will. It got skied by someone today though - maybe someday it’ll make sense to me but I dunno, ha. Gate to it is rarely open anyways. Kudos to all the ripping snowboarders I saw today on this peak and definitely saw a few ripping skiers too