Fun stuff to ski/ do at the canyons and park city.

If you go to the canyons and want to ski mad pow, take 9990 up, go to a traverse on the left, follow it all the way tonthe boundary, contiguity the BC gate and skinfown that slope, hike over that hill at the bottom, at top ski awesome mini golf style lines that are sooooo sick, and the pow stays fresh becuz it's out o the sun. Rent pow skis if you don't have them. And over there the avy danger is usually pretty low, but go witha friend in case. And the hikes arnt bad at all
 
you know nothing about this 15y/o kid and your suggesting that he goes into the backcountry without any gear or precautions? I know that you're only trying to help make this kids trip epic, but the backcountry
 
It's not really backcountry, the slopes of where I am talking about are no steeper than a black diamond run at the canyons. If you have any basic knowledge of avalanches and snow conditions, you will be fine. Theres really no way snow could slide in that area.
 
I don't know what the slope is like, but you also don't know if. the OP has any avy knowledge, most eastcoasters dont
 
COskier is an idiot. If you take the right off the lift and take the hike/traverse into the sidecountry there is definitely avy danger. I ski Canyons all the time and the area around North face slide all the time. In addition if you're alone don't ever, ever, ever drop into something untouched. There isn't any way to test the snowpack from the ridge other than cutting a cornice.

COSkier I hope you know that "black terrain" is slideable. Anything with 30 degrees of inclination or more can slide and 35-37 degrees is prime Avy terrain which most of those faces are in that area.

Check out: http://utahavalanchecenter.org/advisory/slc for Avy reports in the Wasatch.

I don't mean to make it seem so dangerous but you should defintely know that there is danger. You are going into the backcountry. There is not someone holding your hand when you're out there and Ski Patrol does not any work there.

If you wan't to experience similar terrain but still be inbounds go up Super Condor and hike Murdoc Peak and the ridgeline up there. It is all pretty sweet up there and offers great, safe terrain.
 
Easy there sparky. I was skiing with one of the locals there who knows a shitload about that area, and he said in the 12 years he has been there, that area has never slid and that its even safer than some of the inbounds stuff the canyons has. There are no cornices, and that area is pretty well traveled by locals as well. If it wasnt safe, i wouldnt reccommend it to anyone, im not an idiot whos trying to get people killed.
 
There is a lower gate you can go down that isnt backcountry that leads into the Magic Lines / Fantasy Ridge area.

But there are most defintely cornices and slides in the Canyons sidecountry areas
 
are you thinking of the same area i am? you go to the edge of the boundry like your going to the top of red pine chutes, but you turn left over the back of the ridge line instead. there are no cornices there and the locals i have talked to said its a safe backcountry area as long as the snow is relatively stable, and if the chutes were open, it would be safe. I know anything can happen in the BC, but this area is relativley safe as long as you have some common sense,
 
yeah, but i only go out to utah for a week each year, and if its crowded or the snow is bad inbounds, i will go out there and hike those lines that are mad fun for the afternoon and just skin out in the afternoon. and its a pain to get from the red pine area back to 9990
 
i dont think right now would be a good time to find pow at the canyons, i am there right now and i rode all day, its like 45 degrees fareneheight out. all the deep snow i found was heavy and wet.

but theres a ton of fucking babes around here, i suggest trying to make sex them.
 
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