Popular Post CaptDave Posted March 18 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 18 The sun was bright ☀️. The snow was everything from boilerplate to pure slush. And a little bit of nice chalk in between. mountain reported 21” last week but the Cirque traverse was pretty rocky. Welcome to March sunshine. Great Scott was actually decent just the drop in was sketchy. Had a little late morning show as two guys had hiked up the peak and went into a (as I heard) a rarely open line called Pipeline. Winds were calm up top which I guess I can count as a win. 13 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 19 Author Report Share Posted March 19 Maybe I am losing my mind but I am kind of digging the the chalk in the steeps here. Crew was feeling sendy this afternoon. I Jerry landed it but one of us cleared the cat track was hoping to hike up Baldy to go check out Livin the Dream but closed 😢 Shot of Jameson for Apres 😎 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 Nice report and I like chalky snow on steep pitches grippy but still fast and that’s the kind of snow I can ski a lot of vertical without getting beat up like the powder chowder push piles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 19 Author Report Share Posted March 19 56 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said: Nice report and I like chalky snow on steep pitches grippy but still fast and that’s the kind of snow I can ski a lot of vertical without getting beat up like the powder chowder push piles They reported like 20 inches of snow here last week but sure doesn’t seem like it up on that ridge line. I am guessing it was very windy last week blowing snow out of the top of those lines she the bright March sun the past few days nuking the rest. Once you cleared the drop in area and the exposed rocks it was fun. 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 Twas ready for a little hike action today but 🚫 I found out why shortly later 😳 Bulletproof morning. Fast corn to slush cycle in Mineral Basin so that was the play. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 21 Author Report Share Posted March 21 Today started with a nice snow shower. I hope the crew over in Park City has a piece of that. It softened the surface up enough to make fir a very fun day. Visibility up top was pretty bad most of the day. The mountain staff posted signs “Experts Only” so I think that scared off the tourists bad the lift lines in Mineral were pretty short. 👍 The most fun for me was getting into some of the chutes and trees over in Little Cloud area, My post yesterday was a wet avalanche debris. Kind of scary. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CaptDave Posted March 22 Author Report Share Posted March 22 (edited) Friday last day Another ☀️☀️☀️day. Snow shower came through just after close. Nice day. Started with some Mineral laps as that gets the sun first. Then sone plays over in Little Cloud area. Rasta chutes etc. The northeast facing aspects seemed to hold that nice chilly snow during this freeze/thaw cycle. After lunch getting into Cirque Ave some other fun stuff off the path. West Baldy, Peruvian area lots of goodies in there. Then to finish the day with some live music in the plaza 🍺 Forecast for snow tomorrow afternoon. 😢. I really thought about changing flight to red eye to get another day in but honestly, We all are pretty wiped out. Was pretty good and fun week even though snow conditions were not what you’d expect here but weather is always a roll of dice in trip planning Edited March 22 by CaptDave Get rid of whitespace 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRacer Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 I like that you’re just hanging out at snowbird and not hitting a bunch of other places. Bird is the word in Utah. TBH I’d like to do a bird only trip soon. Lots to explore there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 23 Author Report Share Posted March 23 I was out here about same time last year and it dumped all week. I stayed in Midvale. LCC road had a lot of avy closures that week and I was only about to get here one day. Solitude and Brighton the other days. So this go around I stayed near slopeside. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptDave Posted March 23 Author Report Share Posted March 23 Biggest pile of snow I ever seen. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 CaptDave will get you high tonight shredding jackson hole and snowbird.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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