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Carston skis Utah Pow
Posted Feb 3rd 2009 11:38PM by MamaJay - 8 comments
- Average rating 9.63 of 8 ratings
The past few weeks there has been a nasty high pressure system sitting
over Utah and the dry, warm weather associated with it left the ski
conditions pretty marginal. This last weekend, however, we had the
perfect set of storm systems roll through and change that all around
really fast. The first couple days dropped a foot or so of super warm,
wet, PNW style snow that knocked out surface instabilities and provided
an amazing base for the two or three feet of super low density, cold
Utah blower pow that fell over the next couple days. I got some
ridiculous skiing during the storm then on Tuesday the sun finally came
out, so needless to say, this week was good.
I got an early start on Tuesday to try and beat the powder frenzy that was sure to ensue. I met up with Jeremiah Watt at 5:30 to start our skin up Little Superior, and it was a balmy -6 degrees at the trailhead.
We got to the top just before sunrise, and were treated to over 2000 vertical feet of chest deep cold smoke.
After that I took a quick water/snack break at my car, and then met up with Jonathan Cracroft to ski some Alta slack-country.
On Wednesday the winds came in and blew the snow around a bunch, filling in a lot of tracks from the previous days. On Thursday Cody Barnhill met up with a few others to take advantage of the wind-loaded landings in the rock gardens at Brighton. I’m not sure I can show you the goods that came from the real photographer, but here’s a sample of the day’s events that Cody snaked on his point-and shoot:
So yeah, this week was great fun, and mildly ridiculous. Until next time…
-Carston
I got an early start on Tuesday to try and beat the powder frenzy that was sure to ensue. I met up with Jeremiah Watt at 5:30 to start our skin up Little Superior, and it was a balmy -6 degrees at the trailhead.
We got to the top just before sunrise, and were treated to over 2000 vertical feet of chest deep cold smoke.
;)
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
;)
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
;)
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
;)
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
;)
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
;)
;)
…and some flippy-spinny stuff in Rocky Point:
;)
;)
;)
On Wednesday the winds came in and blew the snow around a bunch, filling in a lot of tracks from the previous days. On Thursday Cody Barnhill met up with a few others to take advantage of the wind-loaded landings in the rock gardens at Brighton. I’m not sure I can show you the goods that came from the real photographer, but here’s a sample of the day’s events that Cody snaked on his point-and shoot:
;)
Lining up some rocks
;)
Sending…but not so much spinning on this one
So yeah, this week was great fun, and mildly ridiculous. Until next time…
-Carston
Average Rating:
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MamaJay
Feb 3rd 2009 at 11:38:39pm
2nd?
mrstskier
Feb 3rd 2009 at 11:41:54pm
brobdignagian!
dave...$
Feb 4th 2009 at 12:59:46am
last cliff is pretty righteous
blindside$
Feb 4th 2009 at 7:50:57am
ahhhhhhh makes me wanna get on the donner party's soooooooo baaaaaaddd! we need snow in CO!
Dntel.
Feb 4th 2009 at 11:41:10am
shit looks sick.. good shots
JohnnyRrr
Feb 4th 2009 at 11:07:20pm
thats sicktor
jeeahbrah
Feb 10th 2009 at 10:42:56pm
sick shots.
CHOPS
Oct 29th 2009 at 2:54:30am
