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Skiing Rules' ongoing TR's and observations from High Boy friends
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skiing rules
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This is what today was like. Maybe on the pic
http://unofficialnetworks.com/category/ ... /snowbird/
Worst Day Ever at Alta from UnofficialNetworks.com on Vimeo.
http://unofficialnetworks.com/category/ ... /snowbird/
Worst Day Ever at Alta from UnofficialNetworks.com on Vimeo.
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EastCoaster
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Skiing rules and I skinned up to Fantasy ridge from Alta this morning, with expectations very, very low. We were pleasantly surprised to find spring corn-like graupel on south-southeast aspects. It was fun:
Other aspects were fall-and-die ice/crust.
Back home today, just in time for the next big storm to hit UT, naturally...
Other aspects were fall-and-die ice/crust.
Back home today, just in time for the next big storm to hit UT, naturally...
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jamsandwich
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cool picture. looks great to me, but its raining and 45 degrees in boone today so...
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Brewskis
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@EastCoaster 236254 wrote:...with expectations very, very low.
Low expectations are the key to happiness.
@EastCoaster 236254 wrote:Back home today, just in time for the next big storm to hit UT, naturally...
This is almost always the case for me too when it comes to trips out west.
Low expectations are the key to happiness.
@EastCoaster 236254 wrote:Back home today, just in time for the next big storm to hit UT, naturally...
This is almost always the case for me too when it comes to trips out west.
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skiing rules
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awesome! one of the pics did turn out. expectations were indeed low pretty much the entire skin up. EC got his new dynafit setup mounted last night and he was really moving up the skin track, he even had to wait for me a couple times. Skiable snow was aspect dependent because the wind was pretty much rippin' out of the west up near the ridges, but we did find a nice SE facing ramp/bowl that was holding really nice snow as seen in EC's pic, nice enough that we did two laps. It was great to get out and ski good snow after yesterday's heinous conditions. Alta still didn't have anything open besides groomers if that tells you anything. Hopefully stability will heal up since the rain crust kind of locks everything in place, but thick rain crust with graupel on top isn't exactly a good bonding surface for the snow forecasted for tonight and tomorrow.
EC- it was good to meet you and make turns, I'm sure we will get dumped on for your next trip and we can check out the doorknob and hit the bc in faceshot pow.
EC- it was good to meet you and make turns, I'm sure we will get dumped on for your next trip and we can check out the doorknob and hit the bc in faceshot pow.
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skiing rules
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Today was as good as Monday was bad. Ski report showed 6" overnight, but they take their report at 4:30 am so by opening at 9:30 there was 10" with lots of drifitng. Only about 1/3 of the mtn was open but after a long time w/o pow today was probably my favorite day of the year. All of wildcat was open, trees under collins and collins groomers were open, groomers off supreme and sugarloaf groomers and extrovert were open. Everything else was closed. We found a lot of good airs today, especially in wildcat. Wildcat was sick today. The snow was about 8% so it was very powdery but dense enough to bond to the ice crust and cover up the ice layer, there was a lot of sluffing and crown lines under cliffs or rollovers where it had slid off the graupel that pooled under cliffs on top of the ice crust. The forecast called for a total of 10in, but so far it has snowed about 14in.
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jamsandwich
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nice! blow some of those 14" our way!