Where is it? (Poor mans version)

[Kokopelli]

Mineral bottoms road.

[Sandstone Addiction]

Mineral bottoms road.

Another good guess, but not Mineral Bottom road--west of the Green River. Although this is a road, I don't think many full sized vehicles travel it anymore.

[Sandstone Addiction]

Hint: A section of this jeep trail is used by hikers on a very popular loop hike.

[Old Jeeper]

Behind the Reef

[Sandstone Addiction]

Behind the Reef

Correct!

Your up Old Jeeper.

[Old Jeeper]

Thanks

[tmartenst]

Mineral Basin, looking up towards AF Twins

[tmartenst]

Fun fact, I broke my back on the cliff at this arrow in 2005.

[wasatchghost]

Fun fact, I broke my back on the cliff at this arrow in 2005.

[mattandersao]

Umm you can't just say that and then don't explain! I smell a good story!

[Old Jeeper]

Mineral Basin, looking up towards AF Twins

Correct

Your turn.

And lets hear your story.

[tmartenst]

The Story:

I started working at Snowbird in 2002 and rode a lot but kept my feet mostly on the ground (or Pow rather) despite most of my friends dropping cliffs all over the mountain. On 2.21.2005 there was a ton of new snow, I was having a great pow day and also expanding my cliff jumping ability because the landings were so soft. All of the cliffs I did I had seen from other angles or had seen others jump them. Around mid day I met up with a good friend who jumped big cliffs all the time. He took me down to the cliff in the arrow and told me where to jump. I wasn't feeling it at all because I had never seen the bottom. A patroller was watching me just below. My friend told me to go straight and I decided to go a little left since it looked like less of a distance. The cliff was about 45 feet we determined. My rookie move to the left landed me directly in another guys bomb hole so the snow was all blown out already and I also turned in the air so I landed pretty much parallel to the mountain (not good). My face hit my knee on impact. It hurt. I tumbled and righted my self and knew I was messed up. Adrenaline allowed me to snowboard slowly down to the bottom of the Mineral lift, up to Hidden Peak, down tram in pain and at the base I was hurting bad. Went to instacare and they told me it was a lower back sprain. 2 days later, the radiologist called and said I had a broken back. Compressed 3 vertebrae (chipped off the edges of L1, L2, L3). In a back brace for 5 weeks and then back on the hill. Very happy I'm not paralyzed.

My face after knee goggle. Will have the triangle scar for life.


That same friend hitting the backbreaker cliff a year later.

[tmartenst]

Keeping with the mountain theme and in honor of the crazy avalanche year this year. Where is this taken? (sorry to all of you desert dwellers)

[wasatchghost]

Is that up by Red Pine Lake?

[tmartenst]

Not Red Pine. In the Wasatch but off a different ridge line.

[tmartenst]

I have a feeling more than a few of you have been in the lower drainage (in summer perhaps) and even more have seen the prominent peak that the second photo is taken from.

[Sandstone Addiction]

How about Mineral Fork up Big Cottonwood?

[Scott P]

Mill D (Cardiff)?

[tmartenst]

Mineral Fork was one over, Mill D is the one. Second photo above was taken from the top of Superior.

Scott, you're up.

[Scott P]