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Wasatch Range, UT Report: A Murder-Suicide on Mount Superior

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing  Report from Thursday, May 13, 2021 Often the best things in life are unexpected: relationships, job opportunities—Chuting Gallery couloir link-ups. This morning at 11, two buddies and I set off for Suicide Chute—a Wasatch-classic couloir on Mount Superior.  I’ve already skied Suicide several times, so I figured I’d take a look at Homicide Chute […]
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Powder Mountain, UT Report: High-Speed Storm Laps & Plenty of Face Shots

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Report from February 16, 2021 It just keeps getting better in the Wasatch this week. If Powder Mountain was boot-deep in lots of spots on Monday then it was knee-deep yesterday. I showed up late in the afternoon around 2 right during peak-intensity snowfall—it was DUMPING. With only a couple of hours of chair […]
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Powder Mountain, UT Report: Paradise Opens, Powder Madness Ensues

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Report from January 30, 2021 I was fortunate enough to have discovered Paradise when I was still young.  I’ve since come to believe that Powder Mountain’s best chair is Paradise, which opened today for the first time this season.  The skiing off of that chair today was just plain absurd.  Pow Mow reported […]
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VIDEO: Utah Avalanche Center Forecaster Warns That it Will Be “A Dangerous Winter in the Wasatch Once It Snows”

“There is no doubt that we’re going to have a dangerous winter in the Wasatch once it snows.” – Trent Meisenheimer, Utah Avalanche Center Lack of snowfall has caused the existing snow in the Wasatch to become weak, faceted, and sugary—the perfect recipe for avalanches.  And worse yet, there’s no snow expected for northern Utah for at least another week, […]
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Trip Report: Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT – “Tanners Gulch”

Today, May 21st 2020, I endlessly bootpacked my way up the north side of Little Cottonwood Canyon to ski down the legendary “Tanners Gulch”. Tanners received Andrew McLean’s mythical “The Chuting Gallery“ guidebook’s highest rating:  3-stars. I’d been eyeing this line all season long but I never quite understood what was going up there until I recently acquired Andrew’s book […]
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