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Looks like touring is winding down. What a shift between this weekend and last. Well today went up to ride the Timpanogos West Face. I have been eying the line since I moved here a few years ago. It didn’t disappoint. Missed ya Dan!
Started Early.
Booted up the entire 6,500 vert feet. First time using crampons. They are nice haha
Corn Harvest. Corn was perfect the entire way down.
I was so stoked to hit this line. I am beat today. Long approach but totally worth it.
Spent easter weekend checking out the La Sals in SE utah. They are a nice change up from the wasatch and a really cool range over all.
Standard desert gear.
Did a whole lot of this :
For a little of this:
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The snow softened up nicely during the day and rode nicelyI too was in the La Sals last week. Spent 3/31 – 4/3 at the Tomasaki Hut. Definitely the shittiest hut I’ve ever stayed in. We lucked out with one great powder day and even rode settled pow and Slick Rock in one day. As usual, I took very few pictures
Obs: ~150 cm of snow near Geyser Pass on Wed. Snowline was still well below Geyser Pass parking, too.
Hit up Days from Spruces this evening…Snow was Super Duper!
got a lap on each of these…snow was really good, bottomless turns the whole way.
crazy UFO cloud…bunch of high marking from sleds…looks like a couple naturals in Cardiff from daytime heating or wind loading?
good to have winter back
some nice looking lines back there
North-Northeast were really good, anything else was zippered to heavily crusted…exited apx @ 6:30
gotta show some sigs
snow felt like it was bonded well in days, didn’t notice/see/feel any slabs popping at all…winds were gusting out of the north/north east up at the ridges…thought maybe it would be icy towards the ridge but the snow was holding on, at least were I was the winds were not doing very much damage if any.
Did a few laps from cardiff pass. The snow on the north side was great! It road bottomless and was really light.
The south side seemed windloaded everywhere and got denser as you got lower.
Over all the snow was great. Visability kinda sucked though earlier in the day.
Nice fish wasatch surf! Are your rods reel-less? Reminds be of the cane poles I used to used to catch bluegill with in ponds.
Anyway, the wind is still doing its thing out there.
Spent the day in days. The snow was still really fun on the north aspects once you got below the wind damage up high.
However, exiting down south facing flagstaff face around 3 was miserable. The whole way down was a nasty breakable crust/windskin/damp snow combo. Really had to work hard to stay on top/turn.
Saturday was amazing! Sunshine, 2 feet of blower powder …. 😯 and then I woke up.
So we rode this instead.
It was still awesome though. It was more for the adventure of it than the snow quality.
This tour was a bit closer to home so had some great views. I could have used some sunshine though.
Observations include layers of knife hard ice blocks, sticks and pine needles.
Did two tours today. This morning I putzed around brighton, taking advantage of the chair while I still can. It was coming down pretty good this morning.
Todays snow was really light and fluffy but yesterdays snow has definately crusted up on all aspects
Id say about a 10-12 inches fell since yestedays snow. North facing rode bottomless. West was soft, you could feel the crust on east and south had a really hard, unpleasant ice crust under the light snow.
The snow really wanted to sluff. I cleared a couple chutes with slope cuts, and it seemed that i was getting chased by them with everyturn. But Id call them very managable if you were expecting them.
The north winds we have been having lately have been putting cornices is funny places.
And the seagull is getting fat lately. More of an eagle these days.
In the evening I poached alta for dusk patrol. High elevation northfacing was still really good, maybe a tiny bit denser, despite the afternoon sun. All other aspects were unpleasant to turn on.
For some reason she didnt take her board out of touring mode for the decent….
Round 2 moving in..
Really fun day overall and it sure felt good to ride powder at 800PM on April 16th.
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