Day 34: Before the storm.
Warm breezes picked up from the southwest yesterday ahead of a medium-sized storm that's moving in today. While dense fog socked in the Salt Lake Valley it was merely overcast in the mountains, spitting a flake or two from the grey skies on and off throughout the day.
And it was humid. Very humid for these parts, and the snow was picking up on the humidity. It skied quite well, however, and Skidog, Bobby Danger, AmyZ, Telejon and I did our best to take advantage of it from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. on terrain stretching from Supreme at Alta to Gadzoom at Snowbird. Thursday's 4" dressed things up a bit but the pattern change beginning today is what we've all been waiting for.
And it's coming just in time, for some of the hairier spots are especially hairy right now. We tried to drop into Great Scott via the primary entrance but it's been scraped down to nothing. We skied Jaws instead, where I can verify that the crux is precisely 188cm wide (because my skis jammed between the rocks trying to get through). Getting out to Lone Pine via the Wilbere traverse is positively ugly.
We bumped into Skrad, who lapped Devil's Castle several times after they opened it today, and some other non-FTO friends but that's about it. It wasn't busy at all.
I awoke this morning and was greeted to a view of the lights of the city out my living room window with a full moon setting across the Oquirrh Mountains. I haven't seen that view in weeks...the inversion is finally gone!
Warm breezes picked up from the southwest yesterday ahead of a medium-sized storm that's moving in today. While dense fog socked in the Salt Lake Valley it was merely overcast in the mountains, spitting a flake or two from the grey skies on and off throughout the day.
And it was humid. Very humid for these parts, and the snow was picking up on the humidity. It skied quite well, however, and Skidog, Bobby Danger, AmyZ, Telejon and I did our best to take advantage of it from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. on terrain stretching from Supreme at Alta to Gadzoom at Snowbird. Thursday's 4" dressed things up a bit but the pattern change beginning today is what we've all been waiting for.
And it's coming just in time, for some of the hairier spots are especially hairy right now. We tried to drop into Great Scott via the primary entrance but it's been scraped down to nothing. We skied Jaws instead, where I can verify that the crux is precisely 188cm wide (because my skis jammed between the rocks trying to get through). Getting out to Lone Pine via the Wilbere traverse is positively ugly.
We bumped into Skrad, who lapped Devil's Castle several times after they opened it today, and some other non-FTO friends but that's about it. It wasn't busy at all.
I awoke this morning and was greeted to a view of the lights of the city out my living room window with a full moon setting across the Oquirrh Mountains. I haven't seen that view in weeks...the inversion is finally gone!
