Alta, UT 12/18/2016

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Day 11: Can someone go hit the thermostat?

Holy cow, it was cold! How cold? Here are the mid-mountain readings throughout the day:

Time ºF
17:00 0.0
16:00 0.0
15:00 0.0
14:00 1.0
13:00 -1.0
12:00 0.0
11:00 -3.0
10:00 -6.0
9:00 -8.0
8:00 -9.0
7:00 -9.0

We waited for the mercury to rise at least to zero. Bobby Danger, AmyZ and Telejon all showed up at 11:30. I made it by noon, shortly after ASP opened Backside and Baldy Shoulder. I couldn't find the others right away so I hooked up with JTran for a Backside. We then joined the others and hit Susie's, finding plenty of untracked remaining.

The others headed for the newly opened Mineral Basin at Snowbird for a couple of laps just before 3 p.m. I felt the temps starting to drop again shortly thereafter, and called it a day.

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Skied all day until 2:00...pretty cold in the morning..went in for a little while..managed to hit the Basin for a run..wasn't as epic as it could have been...avi debris all over the place...guess they dropped..a few million pounds of bombs...
Better runs in the Gad valley....
 
kingslug":3n1l6o2c said:
guess they dropped..a few million pounds of bombs...
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How many years of ordnance do they have left? Europeans are always fascinated that U.S. ski areas detonate old bombs for avalanche mitigation.
 
jamesdeluxe":2gqcalfv said:
kingslug":2gqcalfv said:
guess they dropped..a few million pounds of bombs...
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How many years of ordnance do they have left? Europeans are always fascinated that U.S. ski areas detonate old bombs for avalanche mitigation.
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By and large avalanche control conducted by ski patrol in-bounds in LCC is done with bags of sodium nitrate, not shells (with a few exceptions -- East Castle, Baldy Shoulder, etc.). Most of the shells are launched by UDOT or by Alta/Snowbird patrols onto the south-facing side of LCC.
 
All I know is at 5AM the room would light up..then BOOM....which repeated for about an hour..then the smaller stuff could be heard.
 
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