Alta This Weekend

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Hello. I've been reading these forums long time (2 years+) and unfortunately never posted before., Anyway, I'm coming to Alta this weekend and was wondering if anyone is going to be up there and wants to meet up for some turns. I'm coming in Thursday night and skiing Fri, Sat, Sun. I'm coming with a friend who's skiing for the first time ever so I'll be skiing alone for the most part.

I've skied Alta 2 other days but never really figured the place out so would love someone to show me the good stuff (steeps, untracked if it's around, etc). I did buy the Powderhound's Guide to Skiing Alta this year so that should help a little, but no way to beat local's knowledge.

Anyway, thanks for all the great info that's kept me entertained at the office for the last few years.
 
socal":3j34tbve said:
Hello. I've been reading these forums long time (2 years+) and unfortunately never posted before., Anyway, I'm coming to Alta this weekend and was wondering if anyone is going to be up there and wants to meet up for some turns. I'm coming in Thursday night and skiing Fri, Sat, Sun. I'm coming with a friend who's skiing for the first time ever so I'll be skiing alone for the most part.

I've skied Alta 2 other days but never really figured the place out so would love someone to show me the good stuff (steeps, untracked if it's around, etc). I did buy the Powderhound's Guide to Skiing Alta this year so that should help a little, but no way to beat local's knowledge.

Anyway, thanks for all the great info that's kept me entertained at the office for the last few years.
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Admin and myself will definitely be there Sat. We know the mtn pretty well. Shoot either of us a PM and im sure we'd be happy to let you tag along?

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Cool. Looking forward to it. So what are you guys thinking as far as snow for the weekend? utahskiweather.com isn't thinking too much, just 2-4" tonight and they say maybe more on Sat. NWS's forcast looks more promising.

Actually booked a trip out to Alta for next weekend too! It'll be 26 days for me this year. Probably 3x my average. Staying at the Rustler next weekend and in Sandy this weekend.
 
My gut is that Greg and the guys at UtahSkiWeather.com are more on the money. The fine folks at the Utah Avalanche Center aren't too ginned up on this forecast, either, and they're within the NWS offices. But you never know...
 
Fingers crossed, hopefully the storm dives further south than they're expecting, that's what happened to me a few weeks back at Mammoth. Everyday the NWS would update the forecast and increase the POPs, ended up pretty nice...Maybe next weekend if not...
 
Sometimes in the spring, a snow storm isn't quite what you want. From today's avi advisory:

South of Logan, yesterday, it was warm, cloudy and windy but there wasn’t much snow to blow around because the old snow is—well—old and worn out with wet, sun crusts and rollerballs on most sun exposed slopes and various kinds of hard wind board and wind crusts on shady slopes. A blast of cold air this morning will flash-freeze all our wet, chunky snow into something resembling concrete traffic barriers.


Sure, if it's a major storm, bring it on, but a piddling little 4" with cold air has the ability to really screw things up.
 
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