Can’t help thinking that my first turns of this season will require a road trip… In other news, camping and hiking have been stellar….

Early season conditions are pretty good right now. Heres some stoke for all you weekend warriors!

Last few days have been great, eased into it yesterday with some resort touring. Today we ventured up to Emmas Ridge and Silver fork West bowl.

Most things by now in the central SATCH with decent coverage are getting hit…Superior apron, Days, Silver, Grizz, Patsy etc… no instabilities noticed

Our second lap down the gut….twas nice…Dan dropping, he’s more green than you.

Bring back that lovin’ feel in’ Whoa, that lovin’ feelin’

Snow was holding up on south facing, still blower on our exit run down Emma. Temps were pretty cold, not sure what south facing will be like after today. winds were calm yesterday and today.

^YES! ….Monochromatic kits are all the rage this year…I need to get an orange jacket.

Got out in BCC early again today. Approach was southerly where conditions have deteriorated badly since yesterday. Unsheltered south aspects are now crusted and frozen, where as yesterday it was powdery with significant ski penetration.

Other aspects continue to ride well. Was expecting a bit of sunshine today after yesterdays brutal cold but it was a grayscale day as far as one could see. Colder than forecast and visually bleak.

Where I didn’t see a single other person yesterday, I saw one splitter today (Nice meeting you Chris). Turns were really good, but a lingering ankle issue from last year came back with a vengeance (Sucks getting old…).

Slopes from 25-35° East/Northeast no instabilities encountered, brushy and woodsie on the exit

Cheers!

Wow Dave/Nic, what a cool zone! Looks fun.

Took a drive up to the Uintas Sunday. It’s not really winter up there yet, so…

I stopped off along the interstate on the way home and did a quick skin in the Wasatchback. Mostly split-skiing and character building (brushwhacking).

All aspects except due north are brushy as expected, as are all aspects below about 8k’. Exposed due north was interesting as the entire one to two feet of snow is all loose facets. Weird area with some potential and quick access.

Cheers!

Got out for a quick afternoon tour in BCC. Conditions at the trailhead were a bit damp and temps were warm, but coverage continues to improve with each storm. 3-4″ of fresh at the highway up to 8-10″ above 9k’ with winds causing considerable variation in depth. Significant bridging over brush and deadfall continues to make for arduous trail breaking. Hopefully the forecast sierra cement will smash things down a bit.

Had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of Howie Garber today, share trail breaking duties and some good turns. Its always a treat meeting the folks that have been doing this stuff for decades and still get’n after it.

Rode an easterly line from a summit and it was creamy settled with some chalky wind transport. West thru north looked jacked where exposed to recent winds. But tracks were evident on all the usual lines.

Looking forward this arctic river thingy

Cheers!

Great pictures everyone. Making me drool. Got out on Saturday. Down low it was wet mashed potatoes. Up high, that sweet Medellin Gold.

awesome work boys!

Can’t wait to link up with you Snurfer.

It’s been a great season so far. I’ll spare any observations for now as it seems to be covered. Here is some photo stoke from the past two weeks

Silver Fork from Day 1 at Solitude

So fucking good in West Bowl, just before Mar123 dropped a monster powder bomb

Good lookin out LCC

Wally World with the Lady

Jeff and Doug made a surprise visit from HI and NM, we scored solo runs all morning in West Deso and Beartrap

Willow Skin Track Stoke

Big Cornices forming in the Monitors

More snow on tap! Stoked to shred with all of you.

Got out early for one and done before work… You can have your pie on any crust you like today, but topping selection will be limited by area traveled…

Selective turns were pretty good in sheltered areas out of sun and wind, loose wind filled powder and chalky.. Exit of choice was fucking spicy!

Headed up White Pine…on our way to North er Northeast(ish) Lake Peak

Some isolated wind effect up high, non reactive, graupel under windboard noticed

high n facing Lake Peak…suspect whale, cut it w/ no results

looking across at our previous line from Red Baldy, getting ready to drop

Wasatch Surf, surfing it up

lines…exiting from the bottom of lake peak

We found good stability on all routes traveled…Tested many steep slopes on our way up without any results. Most of White Pine has a nice amount of low density snow sitting on top of a wind board that has bonded well making for some really nice supportable surfy turns… the wind board seems to have welded things in place. Graupel was noticed under the windboard but was not a factor.