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Does anyone have an update on conditions at Fairview? Are all of the landmines covered or do you still have to watch out?
Fairview Conditions
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I was up there before all this snow hit and it was close so Im sure its good. Buddies were up last couple days and reports were good.
lots of snow now.
The valley picked up a foot or so in this past storm.
The valley picked up a foot or so in this past storm.
I have about 18" on my deck from this last storm and im down town. The weekend storm brought in about 2' of fresh plus another 1 1/2' - 2' yesterday. The top of the canyon was closed down most of the day on Monday to try and open up the roads down to Hunting Canyon. Big Drift has about 4 1/2' - 5'
Good Snow
Just rode it and the snow is good - better base than expected - it has a bottom. The one thing to watch is if you park at the summit - the flat area in the bottom (lake area) has some holes in the snow where there is warm springs coming in from creeks and make for a good scare (drop 5' or so onto ice when running 40mph or so) - just ask my riding buddy....LOL
overall some of the best snow I have ridden in quite some time...and very few things hidden unless you get to the area just below the dam and a few rocks on the windblown hills may be found pretty shallow on the crests of knolls and such. GOOD TIMES - especially bangin' the creek bottoms....
Just rode it and the snow is good - better base than expected - it has a bottom. The one thing to watch is if you park at the summit - the flat area in the bottom (lake area) has some holes in the snow where there is warm springs coming in from creeks and make for a good scare (drop 5' or so onto ice when running 40mph or so) - just ask my riding buddy....LOL
overall some of the best snow I have ridden in quite some time...and very few things hidden unless you get to the area just below the dam and a few rocks on the windblown hills may be found pretty shallow on the crests of knolls and such. GOOD TIMES - especially bangin' the creek bottoms....
Are things sliding up there?
Have some of the usual suspects slid already? Any slide news from Fairview?
Thanks
Have some of the usual suspects slid already? Any slide news from Fairview?
Thanks
have seen a few of the little hills slide but we have stayed out of the canyons because of the high avalanche danger
alot of real good powder from the last storms though, will post some pics of yesterday when i get them downloaded
alot of real good powder from the last storms though, will post some pics of yesterday when i get them downloaded
I rode on sat, and we made it to the shootout bowl. I didn't see any slides on the way in and it seemed pretty good. The snow was deep I couldn't climb over ...
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Shootout Bowl
Anyone have GPS coordinates for Shootout Bowl?
Anyone have GPS coordinates for Shootout Bowl?
shootout bowl/staker canyon coords, i just picked them off my map but they will get ya real close
39 32.733N
111 16.935W
http://sanpetecounty.org/pages/snowmobile
the link above has some good printable maps of the area, the skyline south complex is the one of the area you are looking for and shootout bowl is staker canyon on the map
39 32.733N
111 16.935W
http://sanpetecounty.org/pages/snowmobile
the link above has some good printable maps of the area, the skyline south complex is the one of the area you are looking for and shootout bowl is staker canyon on the map
pics from fairview
finally downloaded the pics from last weekend so here are a few
finally downloaded the pics from last weekend so here are a few
big storm coming sunday and monday... snow was decent of friday, snowed all day. good base with about 12-16" on top exposed ridges were wind swept and rock hard...
This was our first trip to fairview and it was awesome. Good base with 4-8" of new. looking forward to the weather forcast of more snow.
Fairview is great right now. We rode on Saturday and the conditions were perfect. Blue sky, 8-12" of new snow so you could still climb great yet it was a challenge. A few little slides, but nothing very big. Most were from the cornices breaking off and triggering a little slide. Be safe, but it was great. Should be even better with the snow from yesterday.
The valley got about 6" of new last night. Should be even more up top.
