Guess the spot: Utah Edition

Bonkers is the run. Broads Fork is the canyon in the Wasatch with Twin Peaks presiding over all.
 
LarryBoy said:
Dangnabbit I thought it was broads fork for the smooth slabs but wasn't confident enough to guess it.
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And that is a wet slab avalanche probably precipitated by glide avalanches off of those famous slabs. Great picture, when was it taken @regehr (date and time of day)? Those types of avalanches are probably the least dangerous because they are the most predictable.
 
Artemus said:
And that is a wet slab avalanche probably precipitated by glide avalanches off of those famous slabs. Great picture, when was it taken @regehr (date and time of day)? Those types of avalanches are probably the least dangerous because they are the most predictable.
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Looks like May 14 2013, and I'm not sure what time of day.

One of the scariest wet avalanche stories I've heard was from a friend who was doing self arrest practice with a fairly large group in Stairs Gulch in spring many years ago when a very large wet slab let loose. Luckily someone saw it coming soon enough and also there were in a location where they could escape, but apparently it was August before some people's backpacks were recovered.
 
regehr said:
Looks like May 14 2013, and I'm not sure what time of day.

One of the scariest wet avalanche stories I've heard was from a friend who was doing self arrest practice with a fairly large group in Stairs Gulch in spring many years ago when a very large wet slab let loose. Luckily someone saw it coming soon enough and also there were in a location where they could escape, but apparently it was August before some people's backpacks were recovered.
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Stairs Gulch is right next to Bonkers and it's big slabs. As you probably know upper Stairs also has big slabs that spawn glide avalanches in the spring and slab avalanches all winter. This avalanche path has run and closed Big Cottonwood Road a few times in my tenure in Utah. These slabs and the loose plates on them make climbing Bonkers and climbing Stairs in the summer a total PIA and somewhat spooky. These are two of the ways, and my least favorite ways, to climb Twin Peaks.
 
Artemus said:
These are two of the ways, and my least favorite ways, to climb Twin Peaks.
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Yeah, I've only climbed the BF twins using the normal route straight up Broads. Have eyed the Robinson Ridge and would like to do that sometime, though!
 
regehr said:
Yeah, I've only climbed the BF twins using the normal route straight up Broads. Have eyed the Robinson Ridge and would like to do that sometime, though!
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Is that the ridge between Bonkers and the summit? Very nice, but a little bushy. BTW climbing up Stairs to the Robinson Ridge and then Twins exposes you to ascending the top of Stairs which is a loose rock sufferfest. This particular gully is the worst rock I have experienced in the Wasatch.

Looking forward to guessing on your new post.....
 
Artemus said:
Is that the ridge between Bonkers and the summit? Very nice, but a little bushy. BTW climbing up Stairs to the Robinson Ridge and then Twins exposes you to ascending the top of Stairs which is a loose rock sufferfest. This particular gully is the worst rock I have experienced in the Wasatch.
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Yep -- Robinson is what Veranth calls the ridge from Bonkers to the twins.
Even without reading what you said here, I had zero desire to climb Stairs w/o snow! And maybe not much desire to climb it with snow: those two doctors got killed there not long after I started hiking around here and it made an impression.
 
Artemis, now looking at your photo, it looks soooo much like taken near or in Zion NP and area. So my guess would be ....

.... Possibly Orderville Canyon, Zion NP.

Have personally done quite a bit of hiking in Zion NP including several cross Zion NP hikes. Love Zion! Zion is Great!
 
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