erik

heh i dont think i have skied anything less then thigh deep powder in the last week or so.....

i thought this was a topic about climbing guides.....

never been there so i only speak of my personal experiences....

all lift serve skiing sucks anyways.....

scott, wallstain and i have scouted and tr'd some routes on that wall about 3 years ago. we climbed thru the "gunsight" notch as well. there are even pics somewhere on this site. we called the wall "rock monkey wall" we kinda wanted to go back and finnish the routeds with hardware, but have been side tracked ever since.

b-day chutes are played out everday now erock....all of the bird is a wasteland.

it is always fun, but i like to climb with my other friends as well, because there are always different goals with different partners.

snowbird does get tracked fast. for your best bet take the tram and ski into mineral basin. you can reach alta from this point too. hike to the top of baldy and ski baldy chutes. also go to the top of the gad lifts and hit the gad chutes or ski into scotties bowl.(both require some hiking) you will ski down to the white pine trail head and will have to hitch back up to the bird(which aint that hard). anything really on the front side of the bird is dumb. but erock is right and you should ski alta. tho we are expecting some new snow this week. plus you should come to the olympic park in park city as world cup nordic jumping is taking place. and there will be a mega party both nights.

i just combat ski.....

skycabins.com no rain in the last 24hrs and you should be good to go.

okay...... not much of an ice climb tho now is it?

pretty straight forward route. just stay pretty much on the crest about 2/3 the way up move to the north side of the crest to finnish.

all it takes is a bit of fore thought

actually the area is not too bad. i would move to norcal b4 moving anywhere else. and you are closer then 100 miles to lovers leap more like 60 miles or so. lots of recrations. folsom lives pretty much inbetween hwy 50(road to s lake) and hwy 80 (road to n lake) the bay area is about an 1.5 hours away which includes the ocean and what not. the air here in salt lake is far worse then the area in the central valley. if i were you i would investigate. erik

nothing i dont bring anything i dont need...pretty much everything should serve two uses if possible. and i pack pretty much the same every single time, so i dont see how it would ever change.

we did a new route on the n face of the black pyramid this summer....great line on great rock. check out the tr around here somewhere. the ridge routes seem to be quite short and imho doing them would be a waste of time with soo many other great objectives in the area. we descended the e ridge with no difficulty and one rap from the summit with one rope.

no there is no major falls coming out of temple canyon... it is the falls seperating the upper and lower enchantments... nice work!

c.b. good to see you finally posted that report...i cant wait to get back there this summer and love the stuart range granite again...

dont forgot to top out the route...if you go to the rock horn you are only doing 1/2 of the route.

looks like you are making due erik!!!

yup the rain event is well buried as we enjoy another bought of fresh snow... dont be jealous iain just come visit.

when i flew to minnesota a few months back they searched my bag on the return trip home....didnt really bother me as there is nothing we can do about it...tho i really felt like saluting the little propaganda they tossed in my bag....

we should be back in the area around june or so....

both are issues but i still say the real problem in utah are the people and especially the mormans.......what a bunch of fukkin morons.

i wondered about the route and headed up there in the rain....i cant wait to get back and do some scrubbing.... too bad i lost my index guide book and can no longer peruse and dream