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Reminder: 2015 Wasatch Splitfest kicks off tonight at Brewvies!
Mt Raymond main chute rode great on Tuesday.
It’s snowing in SLC as we speak.

We got a facebook thread going for further details:
https://www.facebook.com/WasatchSplitfest
Hope to see you all out there for the splitfest!

The 2015 Wasatch Splitfest is happening Feb 26th to March 1st, 2015! All are invited!

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I’ll chime in another vote here for returning the forum to its previous state, if possible, whenever for reasons including:
-new format displays photos in posts significantly smaller than before
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Wasatch Splitfest
Salt Lake City, UT
Feb 26-March 1, 2015

Awesome! Great Basin National Park is a favorite of mine that I’ve been to on several splitboarding missions. I named my company after the Bristlecone trees there cuz they are super rad.

The “some gnar” photo that is posted above, shows the main (lookers left in the photo) and alternate fork of the run called The Ditch, off the the top of Jeff…[Read more]

And I felt there was someone watching me. The Dirty Devil river water, we let it settle over night in a bucket, filtered it, drank it. It’s the thickest river around.

Sweet, switchback, I’ve never gotten up in the Henries but really would like to. I gotta point out, so in your first photo, which is looking west at the San Rafael Reef while driving I-70: that darker brown triangular face in the center, whose summit barely breaks above the horizon line behind it – the climbers call that Death by Chocolate, and I…[Read more]

Glad to see you’re back at it Doug! What to do about injuries: Fight them? Accept and accommodate? Medication? In the end none of us get out alive so, whatever, I dunno what the conclusion there is. Nice job sniffing out Reed and Benson ridge Dave, I wanna get in there with you. Here shots of John L from today. So beautiful up there. 2 other…[Read more]

Yeah Shred Dog video! Your daughter is awesome dancer too

mej – The exit out Deaf Smith Fork was some bushwackboarding, some bushwacksplitskiing, some creekhiking, some trailstrolling. My personal preference when descending canyons is to stay in the water course whenever feasible, which I did at the choke narrows. Certainly a subpar exit fork, but not so bad really, I mean you just blast downward, not…[Read more]

We rode off the top of Broads Fork East Twin yesterday. There were remains of a few new (less than 48 hr old) wind slab avalanches in the Diving Board and upper Broads Fork area on NE facing. The snow in the NW chute was smooth and wind affected with no instability. The hike out Deaf Smith Fork was just fine. Here’s Jason M heading up the…[Read more]

So glad you are OK, Ryan. Thanks for posting such a detailed examination.

Hey nice write up Dan! Likewise, I was continually impressed by the operation of the Sorcerer Lodge crew and our guides. What amazing facilities, terrain, and environs. I want to go back.

One little personal takeaway: So, I tried out a different shaped splitboard one day, and immediately fell, hard, on my first couple runs on it, in spots I…[Read more]

Woops SwitchBack, somehow I thought you = John L…. good to meet ya though and nice work, UTAH, mar123, snurfer, mej!
It not the Wasatch, but here’s some shots from the western part of the north slope of the Uintas, over past 4 days:

A trip to the yurt with snow in the forecast calls for Unicorn Chasers all around.

Is this cheating? In the…[Read more]

Holy shit Logan. That really gives me serious goosebumps. I’ve been up that chute and I can’t believe you’re not worse off from that ride. It’s a skinny chute, but thank god it’s straight, huh? I’m so glad it wasn’t worse for you and everyone else involved.

First time I went to that chute with Dan, we turned back about 2/3 of the way up, right…[Read more]

Thx for the writeup. I wish for a quick recovery.

Sasha in the heart of White Pine:
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Every board is a rock board. Ridge skinning, Wasatch style:
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John L (switchback) gets first tracks in the entrance to the Hallway Coulior:
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Visiting splitboard emissary Kyle Miller gets shacked in the Hallway:
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