@KneeDeep 268246 wrote:You can read his stuff? It's like trying to listen to someone with a mouthful of marbles.
They're easily 10x worse when he posts on ns
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I've got some other pics from the last few days of touring, but these are from today. I went up to Toledo and summitted instead of just skiing from the pass. It was cold. 4 degrees at the top with a steady 30 mph wind, but this was expected and I was prepared. Yesterday it snowed 2" of dust on top of bulletproof everything since it went from warm to a high of 5 degrees yesterday, with wind.
Some really great meadow skipping was had lower down near the road. Up high things were dust on crust, but it was still a lot of fun.
the target
evidence of the wind I mentioned in a previous sentence. I liked it a lot though. I know it's sending 40"-70" of snow from 3-4" of water our way.
See how happy I am?
Some really great meadow skipping was had lower down near the road. Up high things were dust on crust, but it was still a lot of fun.
the target
evidence of the wind I mentioned in a previous sentence. I liked it a lot though. I know it's sending 40"-70" of snow from 3-4" of water our way.
See how happy I am?
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@skiing rules 268806 wrote:
See how happy I am?
Haha, definitely look happy there, SR. I have some friends out there right now, but they're doing a tour of resorts and I couldn't go and not sure if I'll be able to go at all. If I can swing a trip out this season, I would definitely like to hit some of your usuals.
See how happy I am?
Haha, definitely look happy there, SR. I have some friends out there right now, but they're doing a tour of resorts and I couldn't go and not sure if I'll be able to go at all. If I can swing a trip out this season, I would definitely like to hit some of your usuals.
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Cross post from TGR. I triggered a pretty mean slide yesterday. It was awesome, and pretty freaking scary.
Here's a link to a report I did for the UAC
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanch ... ng_1192012
I went up to twin lakes earlier today with a buddy to ski the lower angle trees on the pass. When we got behind the patsy ridge we saw fresh debris from a slide that crossed the skinner and buried recent tracks. I believe it was triggered by two skiers going up the ridge.
The E facing terrain dropping to twin lakes looked extremely loaded from the strong winds, and it was. We kicked a couple of cornices not getting anything to move, but on the last lap I saw a little bigger cornice and gave it a kick. It tumbled a few times before releasing the slope. The initial slab broke about 100yds wide quickly propagating to 1/4 mile with slab depth ranging from 8" to 40". It ran about 900' vert pretty far into the flats below.
The slab broke just below the cornice which cracked further back, but didn't move
This all slid
And past the edge of the photo in the other direction
This was everywhere
This chunk somehow stayed intact
More crown lines in the distance, same slide
A strainer
Most of the bed surface was a stout wind slab approximately 5" thick between layers of facets. The faceted layer beneath the slab was 6-10" deep. The avalanche stepped down taking with it the hard wind slab in a number of areas
Here's a link to a report I did for the UAC
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanch ... ng_1192012
I went up to twin lakes earlier today with a buddy to ski the lower angle trees on the pass. When we got behind the patsy ridge we saw fresh debris from a slide that crossed the skinner and buried recent tracks. I believe it was triggered by two skiers going up the ridge.
The E facing terrain dropping to twin lakes looked extremely loaded from the strong winds, and it was. We kicked a couple of cornices not getting anything to move, but on the last lap I saw a little bigger cornice and gave it a kick. It tumbled a few times before releasing the slope. The initial slab broke about 100yds wide quickly propagating to 1/4 mile with slab depth ranging from 8" to 40". It ran about 900' vert pretty far into the flats below.
The slab broke just below the cornice which cracked further back, but didn't move
This all slid
And past the edge of the photo in the other direction
This was everywhere
This chunk somehow stayed intact
More crown lines in the distance, same slide
A strainer
Most of the bed surface was a stout wind slab approximately 5" thick between layers of facets. The faceted layer beneath the slab was 6-10" deep. The avalanche stepped down taking with it the hard wind slab in a number of areas
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on a side note, Today I went up there again to ski the trees and it was by far the best day of skiing this winter. 15" of dense snow from yesterday and the night before with 6" of lighter pow on top. i went up with SFB and a friend of his who is French and designed the toe piece for Plum bindings. He liked the skiing too 
Winter has returned to the Wasatch!
Winter has returned to the Wasatch!
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That slide amazes me...I've always been fascinated by them but never delved into the details of it all. I'm just sitting here shaking my head, thankful you were able to post about it after the fact. Just phenomenal, no matter what scale it was.
Very awesome you are smart, responsible, and safe about it all too, and making sure to alert others as well. I don't know how long you've been doing this, but my hat's off to you all the way around. Thanks for the ongoing share of your ventures -- they are very cool!
Very awesome you are smart, responsible, and safe about it all too, and making sure to alert others as well. I don't know how long you've been doing this, but my hat's off to you all the way around. Thanks for the ongoing share of your ventures -- they are very cool!
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Pics from yesterday. 42" of snow the last 3 days with over 5" of water. Avvy cycle now is pretty insane to say the least. 3 natural slides crossed the road last night one of them burying it 15' deep. This morning it's mostly clear and 2 more explosive triggered slides crossed the road, interlodge until 12:30.
SR!
SR!