Monthly Archive for January, 2009

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Top 10 in 10 – The Hypodermic Needle

Published on January 20, 2009 in current conditions. 6 Comments Tags: wasatch.

#7 – The Hypodermic Needle (aka The Needle)

The Hypodermic Needle is such a striking, fantastic, obvious couloir that if anyone ever says “I was up at Alta/Snowbird today and saw this amazing looking chute…” there is a 99.9% chance they are talking about The Hypodermic Needle. If you are into chute skiing, one glance at this thing will cause an involuntary yearning in your loins.

The Hypodermic Needle - another classic chute that hardly needs a red line to define it. The shaded face to the right is the Coalpit Headwall and the approach is the same.

A cool aspect of skiing the Needle is that it starts with a bang, then every turn gets a little easier. The top part is full-on mental warfare as you are staring down a long, steep, 45+ degree chute, but after getting a few turns under your bases, you start to relax and enjoy the exposure. By the time you hit the apron, which seems mellow at 35+ degrees, life is too good to believe and you can open it up and let it rip.

Noah Howell busting out the last of the skin track before booting to the summit.

There are two or three ways to approach The Needle and all of them hurt. Knowing there was a booter in on the Y-Couloir, we went up that, then traversed over into Coalpit, then up the ridge to the summit. I was glad Noah was along, as he’d also been up the Y-Couloir three times in the last week. See Mom – I’m not not the only one who does this.

Cameron Peterson, Bart Gillespie, Noah Howell and Andrew McLean. Rawk on.

Through out this project, I’ve been blessed with incredible partners who have seemingly come out of the woodwork. Today I was reminded of a quote from the Metallica documentary “Some Kind of Monster” where the lead singer said “these guys make me play better.” At 35,000′ and counting, my legs are starting to get tattered, but it was so fun to ski with Cameron, Bart and Noah, that it hardly seemed to matter. I’ll get a real job soon – I swear.

Noah Howell slipping into darkness at the top of the Needle.

Noah Howell slippin' into darkness at the top of the Needle.

The first time I skied The Needle we were so intimidated by it we did it as an overnight trip and camped in Hogum Fork. It just seemed too big, steep and gnarly to do in a day. Nowadays, the hair factor is largely gone (the business end of The Needle is about 1,000′ – not so bad), although it is entirely condition dependant. The Needle is east facing (east = crust), but is so sheltered by rock walls that it is often much better than expected.

Noah sticking it to The Needle.

Mr. Howell in his element in the lower portion of the Needle.

Noah Howell spraying at the top of the Hypodermic Needle apron. Go dog go!

All told, The Needle is roughly a 5,000′ descent, of which 1,000′ is serious and the rest is pure fun. What makes The Needle a Wasatch Classic? Everything. If you only had one day to ski here, this packs it all in – steeps, views, powder, aprons, ease of access and a good return on your hiking dollar.

Tomorrow: Celebrating the new King (Barak Obama) by skiing The Queen. Rat-a-tat-tat, hang on to your hat.

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Top 10 in 10 – NE Couloir of Lone Peak

Published on January 19, 2009 in current conditions. 8 Comments Tags: wasatch.

#6 – NE Couloir of Lone Peak.

Yow! What a spectacular line! If the NE Couloir of Lone Peak were closer to civilization it would be skied on a daily basis. But, as it is, the King of Couloirs is guarded by a long approach and today it looked like we were probably the first people in it this season.

The stunning NE Couloir on Lone Peak.

In an endless quest to find the easiest way up there, we tried going up Coalpit #4, then traversing over and climbing up the NE Ridge. This was fun, but with 7,750′ of climbing, it is not the easiest way by a few thousand feet. Oh well – luckily Fred Marmsater and Courtney Phillips like to suffer, so we did.

Fred Marmsater climbing up Lone Peak with Timp and the Cold Fusion Couloir in the background.

Courtney Phillips getting photographed from both ends. Fred is using a wide-angle lens to make his ass look fatter.

The NE of Lone has a lot going for it. It is in the Lone Peak Wilderness area, which is surrounded with beautiful clean granite and has a commanding view of the Salt Lake Valley, as well as all the way down to Provo and Mt. Nebo, which is the southern end of the Wasatch range. We saw two sets of tracks in the Bells Canyon drainage, but aside from that, it is a high, lonely corner of the central Wasatch. The couloir itself splits the north face right down the center and at a sustained 45 degrees with a cliff at the bottom, it keeps your attention all the way down. As an added bonus, since it is in the Lone Peak wilderness area, the pesky Wasatch Powderbirds can’t fly in and drop a group on you.

The top of the couloir has a knife-edge ridge which drops down 500+ feet on the backside, so we opted for the safer (a relative term in this case) side entrance. The first ten feet were a bit icy, but then, ohhhhh yeah… it turned to creamy, steep, old powder. Hmmmm – just right for steep skiing.

Courtney Phillips skiing below The Cat Ears in the upper couloir. Courtney has been skiing for two years and is obviously a very fast learner. To put it in perspective, he's still in the first pair of boots he ever bought. Damn him.

Holding Court above Fred, who is approaching the lower cliff, but having such a good time he doesn't want to stop.

There is no shortage of amazing views from almost anywhere on Lone Peak. In this photo, Courtney is skirting the lower cliff band.

The bad part about approaching Lone Peak from Coalpit #4 (Little Cottonwood Canyon) is that you have to climb up it, then drop back down the other side, then reverse this on the way back out. The good part of this is that you don’t need a car shuttle, and, you get to ski Coalpit #4 if your jellied legs can stand it.

Fred working his way down Coalpit #4 at the end of the day.

And thus endeth the north facers. They were all mighty fine.

Tomorrow: It gets under your skin.
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Top 10 in 10 – Coalpit

Published on January 18, 2009 in current conditions. 7 Comments Tags: wasatch.

#5 – Coalpit Headwall

The Coalpit Headwall has a lot going for it – it is north facing (softest of the soft), huge, has a fairly moderate angle, has tons of variety and more often than not, some portion of it will have good skiing.

The top of the Coalpit Headwall as seen from the White Pine trailhead.

There are many ways to approach it, all involving pain & suffering. Since there is a booter up the Y-Couloir, we went up that, then traversed into the headwall cirque, skinned for a ways, then hit the ridgeline where we booted to the summit. This is the most direct way to get there, although it has a low start (which means more vert climbed) and you end up losing about 500′ on the ridge traverse, but for today it was the way to got.

Fred Marmsater busting out the final section at the top of the Y. Thankfully, it was well hammered down from five days ago.

I don’t usually tour with a group of six, but today it was great as the traveling conditions were perfect and we had lots of horsepower, including Fred Marmsater from Boulder Colorado, Bart Gillespie, Jared Inouye, Rick Angell and Courtney Phillips. The Y Couloir had a well established booter in it which lead to a nice high traverse into the Coalpit cirque which I’d never done before (nice job whoever put that line in) and then another booter up the ridge. All and all, not too bad an approach for a 5,000′ line.

Two lawyers, a rocket scientist and a genetic engineer walk into a couloir... The final ridge climb up the Coalpit Headwall.

The optional, avoidable, yet very photogenic last three feet to the summit.

4,990 feet to go until the valley floor.

Coalpit starts out with a steep headwall which soon turns into a more moderate bowl. After this, it rolls through a nice tree section, which eventually turns into a wild gully that terminates with a waterfall that must be skirted, then back to a gully, then a section of dues-paying bushwhacking at the bottom before you hit a hiking trail which leads to a bridge and finally, a nice parking lot right by the side of the road.

Jared skiing the Coalpit Headwall while Bart watches from a safe spot tucked under some rocks.

The lower third of the Coalpit Headwall is a tight, wild, granite-lined gully that ends in a waterfall over a cliff.

Fred Marmsater skiing just below the waterfall. A fixed line was left hanging from a tree, which made skirting this obstacle a bit easier.

Just when you think it is over... it's not. Rick Angell bushwhacking through the final section.

Tomorrow: The ol’ high lonely.

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Top 10 in 10 – NW Couloir of the Pfiefferhorn

Published on January 17, 2009 in current conditions. 13 Comments Tags: wasatch.

#4 – NW Couloir of the Pfiefferhorn

The Pfiefferhorn is the Wasatch’s version of Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn peak. Like the Matterhorn, the Pfieff is triangular, sharp, jagged and can be seen from all around the mountain range. In a splendid act of geological creation, it has a splitter couloir that runs right from the summit all the way down the northwest face with a 75′ cliff right in the middle of it, which tends to keep the riff-raff away.

The Pfieff doesn't need a red line to show where it goes

The Pfieff don't need no stinkin' red line to show where to go. Start at the top and hold on tight.

My partner for the day was Jared Inouye, who I’d only met once before at the top of MBA (Mill B Aspens), but have gotten to know as he is helping to keep the PowderKeg race alive. Since we had never actually cranked turns together, this was kind of a first-date-from-hell, but hopefully the mental scaring will heal soon and Jared will be up for more, which would be excellent as he’s a super-strong partner.

Jared at the entrance to the NW Couloir of the Pfiefferhorn. He chose this moment to tell me that he was a father of three young children.

The Pfieff has no mercy. It goes from steep with huge exposure to steep with tricky skiing, to steep with a rappel, to just plain old steep and then on to a final apron, which would be nice, except center-punching an avalanche slope is your only option for getting down. Today’s conditions were firm up high (understatement), but stable down low. Pick your poison.

Jared at the rappel. He chose this moment to tell me that he was wearing women's underwear. I instantly thought of thongs, but he said, no, they were Cloudveil long underwear that he got on Steep and Cheap. I was a bit disappointed, but personally plan on wearing thong panties next time I ski the Pfieff as they are lighter and easier to clean, which is important on a line like this.

The Pfiefferhorn gets its classic status not so much for the actual turns, but more for its mind-blowing location. A trip down the Pfieff is kind of like floating in a sea of creamy Italian Tiramisu while being devoured by piranhas at the same time.

But wait... there's more! The lower section still keeps your full attention, especially when it is firm.

Tomorrow: A cold pit in your stomach.

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Top 10 in 10 – Stairs Gulch

Published on January 16, 2009 in current conditions. 1 Comment Tags: wasatch.

#3 – Stairs Gulch

Although Stairs Gulch in Big Cottonwood Canyon is a major classic, I’ve only skied it a few times in the last fifteen years as it is so big, dark and scary. Stairs has a long history of fatalities and I’d suspect that far more accidents have happened there than any other couloir in the Wasatch Mountains. Like a human fly trap, Stairs Gulch lures people in with a parking lot right at the bottom and a nice little hiking trail which leads right into it. But, what you can’t see from below is that the line goes up for 4,800′ to a 152 acre starting zone of slick rock slabs with 270 degrees of exposure. The chute faces north, but also has east and west facing starting zones as well. All of this funnels down through a narrow gully, which at times is only 20 feet wide. Hard or soft slab, creep or climax, winter, spring and fall, sluffs, or major rippers, if it is an avalanche, Stairs will get it.

It also has some excellent skiing. :)

Matt Turley summiting Stairs Gulch from Broads Fork. Much to Matt's dismay, the only time he's sworn, it was caught in full High Def audio for the movie "Steep" as he was almost swept down a chute by an avalanche. Hehhee.

AM and Doug "Doc Brock" Brockmeyer on top of Stairs Gulch with the shadow of Twin Peaks stretching out into the Salt Lake Valley behind us. Doug is a Pedatric Neurosurgeon who enjoys long walks on the beach, romantic candlelight dinners, and removing children's faces to pluck tumors from the front of their brain. I wish I was as good a surgeon as he is a skier - damn him.

AM and Doug "Doc Brock" Brockmeyer on top of Stairs Gulch. Doug is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon who enjoys long walks on the beach, candle light dinners and plucking tumors from infants brains. I wish I could do surgery as well as he can ski... damn him. The shadow of Twin Peak can be seen stretching out over Salt Lake City behind us.

The climbing party is over - time to get down to skiing business. Stairs Gulch, from the top, with feeling.

152 acres of slick, high angle rock makes upper Stairs the ideal avalanche breeding ground.

Brad Barlage picking his way down the lower third of Stairs Gulch.

Bad things happen when you try to share this slot with millions of tons of snow.

The bottom section of Stairs Gulch. Bad things happen when you try to share this slot with millions of tons of churning snow.

This morning’s descent was probably the best conditions I’ve ever skied Stairs in - stable, old powder with a few rocks, old avalanche debris and a bit of early morning flat-light thrown in just to keep it interesting.

Tomorrow: Phee Fi Figgly Oh
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Top 10 in 10 – Argenta

Published on January 15, 2009 in current conditions. 16 Comments Tags: wasatch.

#2 – Argenta

The Chute du Jour this morning for the Top 10 in 10 quest was Argenta in Big Cottonwood Canyon. This is a perennial Dawn Patrol favorite as it is so close to the road that the asphalt often gets covered, or at least dusted when Argenta avalanches, plus it has a huge variety of skiing in it. The moderate lower aprons are fun when the headwall might be avalanche prone, then if not (as today), the upper headwall has some excellent steep tree skiing, as well as a few gullies/chutes. Not only that, but UDOT plows a parking area right at the base of it, which means the approach is literally a matter of seconds – down a slope, cross the river on a snowbridge and start up.

Something silvery and white, alright.

The word argenta means “something silvery or white” which is fitting for this monster north-facing slide path, as there is always plenty of white snow on it. The name may also refer to some mining that was done around the area (Argenta Mine?) and a few of the old structures can still be seen.

What is left of some bad-ass miners cabin that was built 3,000' up the chute, right near the top of the headwall. Cold, dark and avalanche prone - nice place for a shack. :)

One of the big incentives for continuing up all 3,250′ to the top of the run is that you go from a dark forest to instant sweeping views of the central Wasatch in just a few steps. On Dawn Patrols, this is especially dramatic as you are stepping from darkness to brilliant morning alpenglow.

The Argenta summit ridgeline - dark on the right, light on the left.

Right near the summit, you pass by the entrance to the yummy looking East Couloir of Kessler Peak.

The East Couloir of Kessler Peak - filled to the gills and untracked! (shudder...)

The summit of Kessler Peak is a good place to pick up the litter the Wasatch PowderBird Guides often leave, then step into your bindings and start the long journey down.

B-Rad Barlage skiing along the upper Argenta ridgeline. The headwall is the forested cleft in the background.

Courtney Phillips skiing the main chute on the Argenta Headwall.

There was a massive skin track on the lower aprons this morning and probably 20-30 sets of tracks on it, but Argenta is big enough that we were still able to easily find plenty of untracked.

Notes on the Top 10 in 10 project:
- The lines are being skied in order of relative safety, with the north facers being the toughest to get, so they get done first.
- “Top 10″ is admittedly a very subjective idea and my top 10 will probably be much different than other skiers.

Tomorrow: The Stair Master

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Wasatch Top 10 in 10 – The Y Couloir

Published on January 14, 2009 in current conditions. 14 Comments Tags: wasatch.

As a compulsive list keeper, I’ve had a Post-It note stuck to my monitor for a few years that said “Wasatch Top 10 in 10.” The idea is/was to rack up a bunch of Wasatch classic ski descents back-to-back in ten days in a chute skiing feeding frenzy. The problem has always been that I have put it off until too late, or there was too little snow or too much avalanche danger so I’ve never gotten around to it. But, this morning’s UAC Avalanche Report specifically stated that we were in for ten days of high pressure, which I took as a sign from the ski gods to give it a try. If anyone is interested in coming along for some of these, send me a note.

#1 The Y-Couloir

The Y-Couloir is one of the most classic chutes in the Wasatch. Part of its charm is that it is huge (3,400′), north facing (which means fluffy powder), right by the road so it has almost no approach, steep, straight, easy to see and find, often has a booter in it, is semi-sheltered and when it does avalanche, it tends to fully flush itself out. All in all, a tasty treat.

Through some karmic coincidence, Kip Garre, Ingrid Backstrom, Derek Taylor, Rick Angell, Brad Barlage, Tommy Chandler and Courtney Phillips were all in town and available. As the old saying goes, “Eight pairs of boots makes quick work of the couloir” so we were able to start at 6:30am and punch out the hike without too much pain, suffering or tears.

The Y-Couloir from across the Little Cottonwood Valley.

The final 150' vertical feet to the true summit ridgeline can often (like this day) take an hour of trenching through sugar snow.

The final headwall to the summit ridge is often (like today...) a pile of loose, unconsolidated sugar, and can take almost as much time to climb as the rest of the route.

3,400' to the Little Cottonwood valley floor! Keep those tips up.

3,400 feet to the Little Cottonwood Canyon floor! Keep those tips up.

The skiing today was ideal as the booting wasn’t too bad, the snow was soft and the avalanche danger low.

Derek Taylor, Kip Garre, Courtney Phillips, Tommy Chandler, A Mclean, Brad Barlage and Ingrid Backstrom. Rick Angell had to take off early to keep the US economy moving (someone has to do it). photo: tommy chandler

: Ingrid Backstrom doing a photo reenactment of her most infamous film segment ever, the dreaded “Chapstick” clip.

Tomorrow: Something Silvery

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Return of the Chuting Spree – Win a Mountain Hardwear Tent!

Published on January 13, 2009 in MHW Tent. 17 Comments Tags: contest.

Between holidays, computer crashes and the excitment of a new ski season starting, the Chuting Spree contest was overwhelmed and needed to take a break… but now it is back and better than ever with a Mountain Hardwear tent as a prize! Mountain Hardwear is my #1 skiing enabler and I have spent many happy hours flat on my back staring at the inside of MHW tents and counting stitches until I fall asleep in a raging storm. They make a wide variety of high quality tents that will take an unbelievable beating and last for many, many years.

The winning prize is any MHW tent, excluding the Strong Hold, Space Station and Double Wall Satellite. The rules and concept is the same as past Chuting Spree Contests, so if you get it, read no further and check out the clues on Tuesday’s/Cluesday’s at 10:00am Utah time.

The Basics
Five weekly clues lead to the location of the tent. Be the first person to correctly identify where the tent is, and it’s yours.

How the Contest Works:
Through a series of ski mountaineering related clues, contestants have to guess the location of the tent. The clues start with the continent the tent is located on, then narrow down to a specific location. The tent is only there in theory – the real one is waiting for you at the warehouse.

How to Win:
Be the first person to post the correct answer as a comment on the page with the final clue. Click here for an example. HINT: First time commenters must be approved, which causes a delay in your comments showing up. For the fastest comment posting time, get pre-approved by making a comment on an earlier posting so that the computer knows your name.

Question: Are there going to be some really hard, stupid, obscure questions?

Answer: No. Most of them will be easy if you have been following skiing and/or ski mountaineering for a while, and if not, they will be searchable on the Internets. The final clue will be specific to ski mountaineering lore, but it is not necessary to have been there to know the answer. (Example: In “The Blizzard of Ahhhs” Scot Schmidt stood at the top of this and said “Yeah, I’ll ski it for sure.”)

Clue Schedule:
    Jan 20 – Continent
    Jan 27 – Country
    Feb 3 – Mountain Range, City or Region
    Feb 10 – Specific Peak
    Feb 17 – SUPER CLUESDAY! The exact location. Send in your final answer(s) now!

Winning Format:
The final answer is the one that really matters, however in case of a dispute, the winning format is:
    Continent: (Your answer)
    Country: (Your answer)
    Mountain Range, City or Region: (Your answer)
    Peak: (Your answer)
    Exact Location: (Your answer)

Experienced Chuting Spree’rs pretype the answers to the clues they already know so they can fire off a response as soon as the final clue is given. The final clue tends to be a Ski Mountaineering story problem that requires some thought and perhaps some quick internet searching.

Rules:

- Tuesday is Cluesday. All clues will be given on Tuesday mornings at 10:00am Mountain Time on the main page of StraightChuter.com
- In case of a dispute, I (Andrew McLean) will be the sole judge. I’m the Decider. I make decisions.
- Immediate family members are not eligible (sorry Mom, Dad, Polly and Mira…)

Prizes:

- Prizes need to be claimed within 90 days of the winning date. (No, you can’t wait six years for a 2014 EV-9000.)
- Stronghold, Double Wall Satellite and Space Station tents are NOT eligable as prizes. (These are more like investment properties than tents!)
- Prizes are limited to Mountain Hardwear’s available stock on hand. (Sorry, no custom- made Kevlar Trangos.)
- Shipping will be at the manufacturer’s discretion and only to addresses in the U.S. due to expense and customs regulations. Contestants outside of the U.S. can win, but will be responsible for shipping charges and/or arranging customs.

Sample Contest

Clue #1 (Continent)
Q: This continent received a record seasonal snowfall in 1998-99.

Clue #2 (State/Country/Province/region)
Q: The highest peak in this geographic zone is 4207m tall.

Clue #3 (Mountain Range)
Q: Early explorers referred to this range as “The Three Breasts.”

Clue #4 (Specific Peak/Town/Zone)
Q: This peak was first climbed to its summit in 1898.

Clue #5 (Specific location/object)
Q: The first ski descent of this peak was continuous except for one obstacle. For a brand new Mountain Hardwear tent, what is the specific name of this obstacle?

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Faith Base Skinning

Published on January 12, 2009 in 07 Avalanche Avoidance. 2 Comments Tags: avalanche.

While skinning up a steep, exposed slope today in a total white-out, it occurred to me that we were engaging in Faith Based Skinning. Faith Based Skinning (FBS) is when you feel nervous about a slope, but continue on anyway because, well, nothing bad has happened yet. This is not such a great idea. I consider snowpacks to be guilty until proven innocent and although I’m tempted to take shortcuts, it is surprising how many times I’ve avoided random avalanches by taking a safer route up, even if it was much longer.

: A large avalanche covering some Faith Based Skinning tracks. It appeared to be safe, but why not give it the benefit of doubt and go a bit wider?

A close cousin to Faith Base Skinning is Faith Based Skiing (also FBS). Faith Base Skiing often happens during periods of increasing stability when people (like me) are sick of skiing Geh Flat Powder and decide to ski a steeper line. This in itself isn’t so bad, but I try to ease into steeper skiing by nibbling around the edges of more protected terrain, rather than center-punching a slope based on nothing more than faith that it won’t slide.

: Faith Based Skiing gone awry. Why tempt fate with an exposed line when other options are available?

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PNW Practices Random Acts of Avalanche Destruction

Published on January 9, 2009 in current conditions. 5 Comments Tags: avalanche.

One of the defining moments in my life (Ski Career 1.0) was sitting in a cabin at Alpental outside of Seattle watching it rain so hard that the windows looked like a braided river crossing. It was the middle of February and not only were the slopes barren mounds of mud, but there were gushing rivers of brown water splitting them. It was about this time that I decided that going to college might be a good idea.

It was during a rain event like this a few days ago that the main run at the Hyak ski area right near Alpental climax avalanched to the ground, tore out a bunch of lift towers, destroyed buildings and shoved houses off of their foundations. This was a 4-6 foot crown line that ran on a slope that was somewhere in the 25 degree range.

: Hot tub anyone? photo: Misha Stachowiak

: Pacific Northwest style groomers. photo: Misha Stachowiak

Nobody was hurt in this slide, but it is a good reminder that the mountains are never 100% safe. If it is steep enough to turn, it is steep enough to slide in the right (or wrong) conditions.
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Monthly Archive for January, 2009

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Top 10 in 10 – The Hypodermic Needle

#7 – The Hypodermic Needle (aka The Needle)