Did a tour today with the old group. 1st official tour together since the accidents last year. Started at Spruces and skinned up Short Swing. While skinning up Short Swing we noticed a moose taking a rest on the opposite ridge of Mill D North. The tracks were along the summer trail making us think that perhaps the guy was cruising the skin track early this morning
From the summit we noticed a couple of fresh avalanches in Cardiff Fork's High Ivory and next to the Ivory Tower. According to the UAC they were "explosive triggered" by the Wasatch Powder Pigs....oh wait I must have meant powder birds
. Each slide ran damn near to the end of thier paths and personally they piss me off when they feel the need to throw bombs out there. Guess there is no hope for a "bridging of the gap" for the snowpack up there. The Wizard of the Wasatch called it....guessing we are gonna see a lot more "stability testing" here in the near future
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We encountered a group of skiers at the top that had the same plans as us to drop into Bear Trap Fork. According to them they heard a large whoomph and then an avalanche occur somewhere in the distance. We did not hear/feel anything. Eventually an argument insued and well lets just say....I made some friends today
. The sun was doing its thing on the east facing so we only skied half way down into Bear Trap and then skinned back up to the top of Short Swing. At 3pm we decended into Mill D North and called it a day. Never felt/heard a whoomph all day. Never pushed the angles over 32 degrees either. Overall it was nice to see the wasatch looking like winter again. Couple more storms and it will be time to hit the Oquirrhs!
A moose in Mill D North
Troy skinning Short Swing
This is a picture of the avalanches in Cardiff Fork
An odd and old avalanche in Bear Trap Fork
Troy skiing Bear Trap Fork
Troy skiing Short Swing
Ron splitboarding Short Swing