Chalk Creek #1 - 15" plus fresh snow!

[Pastor]

Looks like Chalk Creek was hit hard and is still being hit! 15" of fresh powder since yesterday and still snowing up there!!

Anybody been up to see for yourself?

We were up Mirror Lake hwy Saturday but decided not ot go out to chalk creek because the turn off to get there was a little thin for snow.

I would sure appreciate some first hand information, might go up Friday if it sounds good.

Thanks

 

[phatty]

Looks like Chalk Creek was hit hard and is still being hit! 15" of fresh powder since yesterday and still snowing up there!!

Anybody been up to see for yourself?

We were up Mirror Lake hwy Saturday but decided not ot go out to chalk creek because the turn off to get there was a little thin for snow.

I would sure appreciate some first hand information, might go up Friday if it sounds good.

Thanks

yea trial lake showed 10"... i suspect by the time these storms are done snow totals will be over 2'... powder on memorial weekend! Man i love utah!!!

 

[RMKRAZY]

GIDDYUP!!!!

Riding Saturday morning for sure!!

 

[BeeDoo]

Damn.
I sold my sleds before moving out here thinking I wouldn't have the itch to ride until the winter. Now I hear people talking about riding on Memorial Day and it's killing me.
And I live about 10 miles from some good riding too!

Who wants to lend me / let me rent a sled for the weekend???
I'm about to go buy the 96 polaris ultra my neighbor is selling for $400 just so I won't be disappointed in not being able to ride in late May....

I guess there's always next year...

 

[M8Chris]

Looks like Chalk Creek was hit hard and is still being hit! 15" of fresh powder since yesterday and still snowing up there!!

Anybody been up to see for yourself?

We were up Mirror Lake hwy Saturday but decided not ot go out to chalk creek because the turn off to get there was a little thin for snow.

I would sure appreciate some first hand information, might go up Friday if it sounds good.

Thanks

dang. where is chalk creek how far is it from logan? tonys only shows 4 inches new

 

[Pastor]

There are a few ways to get to Chalk Creek but we usually go out of Bear River Lodge, right now you can take the Mirror lake Hwy up from Evanston Wy. And drive all the way to the Whitney turn off and unload there.

Probably a lot of other places along the Mirror Lake Hwy got hit hard as well.

Would sure like to hear from someone that went up today.

 

[BeeDoo]

If I show up with a 79 Polaris TX 440 will anyone ride with me?
I don't know how the free air cooling will work this time of year.... hmm..

 

[ACMtnCat]

I was hoping someone would post a report of fresh pow. Headed out today after work. Going to be riding Millpeak-Forest lake-Snake creek all weekend!

17"-20" up at Alta!!!

 

[Sparticase]

Sorry guys, I didn't catch your threads till today. I went up mirror lake yesterday after work for a couple of hours (yesterday was the 23rd). Went up mirror lake from the kamas, utah side. Was able to drive a long way up, clear past the parking lot. We parked and unloaded at the turnout just before the first bridge that looks like it crosses the top end of a small reservoir? Not too familiar with the mirror lake highway land marks. From the turnout, unloaded and rode all the way to the summit, mostly played on top of the summit from around 4 to 7 where the mirror lake highway start doing some switchbacks on the utah side. The snow was fairly heavy, you could tell there was a lot of moisture. It is was off and on snowing and shunshine the whole time up there. For snow depth it has compacted down to about a range of 5 to 10 inches of new. It probably got a lot of snow but it has compacted into the packing snow. The kind of snow that when you grab a handful and squeeze it is hard as a rock.

Despite fairly wet snow, had a blast. It was just fun to go up and mess around for a while and have some powder again...well untracked snow.

If any questions, post, pm, email or call, 208.520.0640.

 

[Pastor]

Thanks for the update.

 

[dude]

Sparticase, thanks for the update. How much total snow would you guess was up there? If that area had good coverage overall then that would mean there is still plenty of snow. Lots of good size rocks etc. to cover up toward the top of the pass...

 

[acutah]

We stuck a probe in the ground in a nice open flat area yesterday. About 6ft.

 

[dude]

Sweet. And that's 6 feet of base

 

[phatty]

snowed all day up there... probably 6" new...
couldnt see much though...

 

[Sparticase]

I'd agree with the reading that was taken at 6 feet. Of course some areas seemed a bit thinner and other areas seemed really deep. Once we got over the summit and dropped down the east, northeast side it could be deeper in some spots.

Hey phatty, did you get up mirror lake today?

 

[Dunatic]

rode with phatty today, we went up around Watson, visibility sucked, he got us lost, if it wasn't for rubyredvets mad gps skillz we would still be up there, and phatty would have been the first to get eatin for getting us lost

we had a great day! saw a huge *** tree that got struck by lightning and blown out of the ground, it was still smoldering...

 

[phatty]

rode with phatty today, we went up around Watson, visibility sucked, he got us lost, if it wasn't for rubyredvets mad gps skillz we would still be up there, and phatty would have been the first to get eatin for getting us lost

we had a great day! saw a huge *** tree that got struck by lightning and blown out of the ground, it was still smoldering...

i knew exactly where we were! Some where in the uintas!!! LOL...

getting around trial lake kinda sucks and the creek from wall down to trial is raging!

remind me when i get the GPS to load ALL of the maps on there... lol

 

[Dunatic]

i knew exactly where we were! Some where in the uintas!!! LOL...

getting around trial lake kinda sucks and the creek from wall down to trial is raging!

remind me when i get the GPS to load ALL of the maps on there... lol

Those ladies that got lost up there a couple years ago knew exactly where they where to, they just never found the way out....

I had all the maps we needed as long as you didn't go 1/2 mile to the east....

I got all the maps, I''ll hook ya up, probably be a good idea to put them all on mine to, especially if I ride with you. lol!

 

[phatty]

Those ladies that got lost up there a couple years ago knew exactly where they where to, they just never found the way out....

I had all the maps we needed as long as you didn't go 1/2 mile to the east....

I got all the maps, I''ll hook ya up, probably be a good idea to put them all on mine to, especially if I ride with you. lol!

half mile? try 500 feet! your lucky i moved us into the GPS range!

i want to go back and finish going down that steep canyon... there were some pretty cool waterfalls in that canyon... guess i will go back and explore it on a sunny day!

 

[Kevco]

Why didnt you girlstakeRich..He owns that Mnt. Anyone wana hit it this week?