2018-2019 Utah ice conditions!!!!!
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Ill start it! |
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This season's looking promising. |
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If anyone gets an eye on rookie party, take a pic, eh? |
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Is that an ice climb? |
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Happy to throw in for weekend scouting around & north of Ogden |
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Desperate for early swings, ya often end up scratchin'...but climbed Golden Spike in Uintas this past Tuesday...spicy first pitch, fun more secure ramble on the second...bailed from there to get back to work...should be getting fatter with recent snows. |
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Hell yea, nice going Jim. |
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Daniel, Mulch et al...just a thought but perhaps it's worth changing title of this thread to 2018-2019 Utah Ice Conditions so it's easier to find and doesn't get buried...then another one starts etc. |
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Mark Regier wrote: If anyone gets an eye on rookie party, take a pic, eh? How would you approach that with Snowbird uphill traffic closed? |
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Struck out at November wall today (10/14). |
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Ditto on striking out...took tools for a long walk into a zone we thought we could find some new ice, then another zone yesterday...went a looong way to realize the Uintas are really dry (especially this year): total lack of ground water this summer to saturate soil is gonna be an issue for early season alpine ice and maybe even other routes forming up...Hayden hanging in there... |
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Golden Spike is fat as of this morning and has been since at least Friday. It takes 13cm screws in quite a few places. There's enough snow, I think, to keep it around through the weekend. |
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Just saw uphill travel is allowed at snowbird now. Saw it on the Utah backcountry ski touring Facebook page. |
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Sessioned the Dirtcicle this morning...super plastic conditions and we......oh, wait, that was my imagination...we got shut down...no water...looked for the handle to open the flow but we couldn't find it. |
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Cold temps a comin! |
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Checked out Uintas today. Lower November Wall: forming (give it time to get fat needs a week or two of solid cold - ie. community service/ethics = no gangbangin'), Upper November Wall: anemic at best, Mosquito Wall: bone dry, hard to believe this ever really gets ice as there's no apparent water source other than a seriously wet Fall/big October/November snow and melt/freeze cycle...has anyone swung tools on that crag? |
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Haven’t seen ice on Mosquito in a couple of years, even the last early big snow year it didn’t really come in. Climbed Driptera in late November 2015, really thin, like spent 30 minutes filing picks back to a point thin. Hidden Falls should be coming in if temps keep going the way they are. |
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How’s the snowpack up at the bird? |
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Decent amount higher elevations...thought the crossing above Road to Provo looked liked sketchy wind slab...interesting to see what those guys found... |