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first sunny day in a bunch of weeks and i only counted five people other than myself . a few pictures from a beautiful day ballroom looking exceptionally smooth

exiting suzys trees ascending backside this was the view .

DAY..8... took some pictures yesterday but the light was so flat it wasn't worth it . today started about the same but got quickly better . rode sugarloaf chair yesterday with patrol he told me they were gonna allow hiking into greely via the jitterbug ascent . upon arriving on the ridge line...

amyz and i parked a car at albion day lodge parking and proceeded to drive back down canyon to snowbird and ride the tram to hidden peak . arrived at hidden peak and walked out the road to powder paradise to view some of the wildflowers that are blooming , heres some of what we saw. a bunch more...

went for a short informational hike today . and found more than the cameras show ! and acouple i couldn't resist taking ! much more to be done before snow flies but the place has change happening lets hope for smart decisions to be made !!!

DAY..86+1.... stopped on the way to alta this morning to check on comma chute haven't skied that yet this year until today , amyz joined me for the first run in there of the year . also to see whats been happening at alta as far as changing some of the lower hill . i didn't take alot of photos...

DAY...80... after four days in a row of poWWWWDDDDDDEEEEERRRR and snowbird with no lifts spinning on monday morning ,i'm still gonna ski the snows not gone yet by any means. and a long long way from being gone at the basin. i kick myself for not doing this activity more often , the place has...

DAY...79... oldman winter and mother nature were letting all of us have a reminder of who's boss in l.c.c. especially this morning . a mothers day dump of the windiest kind . 2and 3/4 hours after arrival at snowbird this morning snowbird was able to load trams to the public . snowbird did open...

DAY...73.... after the weekend we had skiing it would be hard to think of it being better this time of year . but this is little cottonwood canyon and it does happen here . this morning was delayed for about 1:15 min. for bombing runs to control the some times un controllable . temps were in the...

DAY..34... ventured north today . strawberry was the only lift not open at the first bell in the morning . wasn't snowing when liz-tony- amyz and i boarded needles gondola , wind was of not much problem either at the base of the mountain . but at the top it was a different story . snowing a bit...

o.k. now the host issues are taken care of a few from saturday . don't have alot of time this morning to do a bigger report , but you'll get the idea.

day.8... o.k. looked at their website this morning nothing about uphill traffic not allowed . simmered on the question of why alta had posted no snowbird axcess , they (snowbird) didn't want people coming over the shoulder being directly deposited onto eddies snow field high on the baldy...

skidog joined me for today's exercises, which took us around the world . made the normal ascent up collins gulch out to sugarloaf side of the hill for the decent . there were people making the ascent up that side of the hill to my suprise -a lot longer ascent- went out that way to see what the...

day.6... didn't make it into snowbird today , knowing what was further up the road . wasn't the best day for picture taking , but i got a couple . storm wasn't a complete bust but surely would have liked more . took a different route from watsons shelter to the summit . out through the trees...

day.5... the dominant color is really starting to show with the leaves off the trees , and the place looking good . i'd rate this as an average early season , i've seen better and also a lot worse !! i had funny feeling on the drive up canyon i wasn't going to be alone today . alta has begun...

sixteen inches of suprise storm , for all intensive purposes we were supposed to miss this one , a nice miss , left us with a good helping of twenty percent density snow . taking slope angle into account , local slope knowledge into account , and a final decision on snow quality as far as what...

after living through the second warmest summer in weather keeping history . i didn't think it was ever going to cool down enough for it to snow. started skinning at the base of the ski area as if it were a normal start to the season , but i really wouldn't say this was day one , still need to...

thanks to the good folks at snowbird for the ride up the tram !! amyz and i skied later into the season even though lifts are closed for the season . 17.00 $ gets a person a single ride up - one time per day , rebuying a new ticket will not get a person back up the hill on the tram . purchasing...

way too cold for any pictures today sorry !!! and the skiing was way to good to stop .... again dealing with the same issues as yesterday at alta with slow snow from to much cold . but i must say that the basin is skiing very nicely for the base they have . definetly i would have been very...

DAY13.... skidog-amyz- admin and myself were out there at the opening bell for a collins departure to point supreme on the first run . opening yesterday for the season point supreme offered some exceptional skiing . tower twelve chute was tremendous ,smooth and steep . skied a bunch of runs up...