current wasatch snowpack

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icelanticskier

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loud? crunchy? sunny? high pressure? all of the above, or left? what's goin on out there. we got hot rain out here soon to be followed by cold with sun. so, brown ground with snowmaking temps finally, sounds epic huh? LOL. thank god for singletrack and storm systems offshore.
rog
 
Yeah, that sums up early a.m. conditions, but they should soften quickly tomorrow under sun and warm temps. We'll be at Alta.
 
I'm still not wasting my time on this side of the rockies with the handful of runs open here.

Instead I'll be sitting down in the Boulder theater with a drink watching the annual WM movie. But I did get in some exercise to prep :lol: Warm enough that I should get a good hike or bike in tomorrow. At least it's pretty much cold enough every night for snowmaking at our altitudes so more runs open this turkey day than last... Still wish we had that 4 footer storm for a base though.
 
Here is what the snow pack is doing: http://utahavalanchecenter.org/google_map_prototype

If you want to stoke the fire, you can take posts here...

That being said, we've been in a high for a week, and the skiing was still better here than anywhere else in the country this weekend. Another seven days of high pressure wont break the bank - just some good ole' spring skiing in November. Just makes the tail gating that much more fantastic.
 
salida":2qh7rc2n said:
That being said, we've been in a high for a week, and the skiing was still better here than anywhere else in the country this weekend. Another seven days of high pressure wont break the bank...
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I hope you're right. Snowbird is reporting a mid-mtn depth of 22", which means 7" have been lost over the past 3 days. Another week at that rate.....

At 7:40 it's 44F at 10,500, and hasn't been below 39F for the past 40 hours. 55F is predicted for today's high at 8500'.

Unless something starts to shape up in the long range models, I'm starting to plan a T-giving somewhere in the desert.
 
Marc_C":1ti7aavz said:
Unless something starts to shape up in the long range models, I'm starting to plan a T-giving somewhere in the desert.
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didnt you do this last year and end up in a snowstorm?

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Skidog":33z3k4f0 said:
Marc_C":33z3k4f0 said:
Unless something starts to shape up in the long range models, I'm starting to plan a T-giving somewhere in the desert.
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didnt you do this last year and end up in a snowstorm?
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Yep. That would be the one that dove south and didn't affect anyone north of Price. Cold, windy, and a spectacular 4" - enough to make the 4x4 trails in the Maze district treacherously impassable.
 
Another seven days of high pressure won't break the bank
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But it will create an unstable layer in the snowpack when it starts dumping later. You backcountry skiers need to be real conservative then.

WY for t-day.
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Probably a good call. Targhee (63 inches) has had nearly as much snow as LCC, and with its consistent intermediate pitch should have more terrain open if the early season base is comparable.
 
Tony Crocker":21ipilp0 said:
Another seven days of high pressure won't break the bank
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But it will create an unstable layer in the snowpack when it starts dumping later. You backcountry skiers need to be real conservative then.
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good call tony. it'd be better to lose all of the snow and start over. the last time i lived out there, our snowpack was super sketch from an early similar pattern. we didn't have low danger all season. it was great for me and those "in the know" though cuz many folks just didn't tour that winter leaving vast untrackedness for weeks at a time. i don't think i ever skied anything much steeper than 35 degrees because of the snowpack, which was fine by me cuz the wasatch is loaded with perfect 25-35 degree epicness that the rad dudes don't bother with.
rog
 
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