Wednesday Dawn Patrol?

**gramps** · 10-04-2005, 12:01 AM

Calling for 1-2 tonight, 6-10 tomorrow, 6-12 tomorrow night. Could be enough to do some reasonable skiing on the grass covered slopes. I've got class at 9:40 Wednesday morning...

**Kellie** · 10-04-2005, 12:14 AM

WTF you lucky utards?!?! GO GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

. . . and then post pics

**phUnk** · 10-04-2005, 12:28 AM

Oh god, here comes that feeling again...

**truth** · 10-04-2005, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by phUnk

Oh god, here comes that feeling again...

That one you get when you sleep in?

**Elitist** · 10-04-2005, 04:19 AM

It is somewhat comforting just to read the title of this thread.

**basom** · 10-04-2005, 05:45 AM

first pulse of the season.

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 06:47 AM

I am going up this afternoon to poke around on the skins.

I work tomorrow at 7am, but it doesn't get light until then. So if I go, it will be a night patrol.

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 06:52 AM

Gramps,

Where are you getting your forecast? The UAC and other sites show it tapering off by this afternoon.

**brutah** · 10-04-2005, 08:14 AM

From alta's webcam it looks like the forecast was a little overhyped. Hopefully that 11" comes today, but it looks like a little frost maybe an inch, if anything.

**Mcwop** · 10-04-2005, 08:22 AM

Weather coming.

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by BRUTAH

From alta's webcam it looks like the forecast was a little overhyped. Hopefully that 11" comes today, but it looks like a little frost maybe an inch, if anything.

I'm being optimistic, but the UAC and other weather sites show the weather coming now, and then tapering off.

Whatever, just a pre-season, too much coffee, tweak fest.

**mrryde** · 10-04-2005, 08:37 AM

WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH-WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80-
WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS-
411 AM MDT TUE OCT 4 2005

...WINTER STORM WARNING EXTENDED UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING..

THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS
EVENING.

THE WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE WASATCH AND WESTERN UINTA
MOUNTAINS IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM THE PRESENT TIME UNTIL 900 PM MDT
THIS EVENING.

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON FOR THE
THESE MOUNTAIN AREAS WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 12 INCHES EXPECTED
BY THIS EVENING. LOCALLY GREATER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE.

A COLD PACIFIC STORM HAS SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW INTO NORTHERN UTAH
EARLY THIS MORNING. PRECIPITATION IN THE MOUNTAINS WILL CHANGE TO
ALL SNOW BY SUNRISE. SNOW WILL CONTINUE...HEAVY AT TIMES...INTO
THE AFTERNOON BEFORE TURNING SHOWERY. SNOW SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF
THIS EVENING.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SNOW IS
EXPECTED. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS AT TIMES IN THE WARNING
AREA. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 10-04-2005, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Trackhead

Whatever, just a pre-season

The downside of dynafits? I'm itching myself however I know it will probably me a month before skiing proper.

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

The downside of dynafits? I'm itching myself however I know it will probably me a month before skiing proper.

I'm a twitcher worse than the most heinous meth head you've ever encountered. Minus the scabs, rotting teeth, and cachectic physic.

**Red Baron** · 10-04-2005, 09:28 AM

Unimpressive, at best; maybe next time...

**zion zig zag** · 10-04-2005, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Unimpressive, at best; maybe next time...

Yeah, but if snowbasin got a quarter of an inch then surely alta got 2 feet.

**zion zig zag** · 10-04-2005, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by truth

That one you get when you sleep in?

Look who's talking sleepy mcsleeperlate.

**Ski Monkey** · 10-04-2005, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by flykdog

Yeah, but if snowbasin got a quarter of an inch then surely alta got 2 feet.

Heh, that's funny. Where's xover?

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Unimpressive, at best; maybe next time...

I saw you're weather report last night when your sidekick said something to the affect of "People want to ski", and you rolled your eyes a bit. Body language weather reporting.

**Trackhead** · 10-04-2005, 10:13 AM

When I used to live in Bozeman, we would twitch to climb ice this time of year. I would drive up Hyalite Canyon and swing tools into 1" of ice and break pics and climb stuff without pro, just to get a fix. Usually after three trips up Hyalite, we would be climbing legit ice.

That said, I'm driving up to Alta this afternoon just to waste fossil fuels and to put in my first of three attempts, similar to Hyalite.

Web cams take all the fun out of it. We didn't have webcams in Hyalite, nor did we have internet.

**grizzle6** · 10-04-2005, 10:20 AM

Bout an inch on the ground and snowing lightly here at Solitude (8000')

**Endlessseason** · 10-04-2005, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Trackhead

Web cams take all the fun out of it. We didn't have webcams in Hyalite, nor did we have internet.

Heh. I agree. I was all excited about what might be up there until I saw Baron's web cam pic. That was a downer.

**Endlessseason** · 10-04-2005, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Trackhead

I saw you're weather report last night when your sidekick said something to the affect of "People want to ski", and you rolled your eyes a bit. Body language weather reporting.

I saw that as well, RB. It sounds as if you get a little ribbing at work about being such a "fanatic," just like the rest of us.