Alta, UT 1/11/09

[Admin]

A recent memo mentioned that Admin has given up rabbit warrens in favor of sweeping GS turns.
:?

Au contraire! There's a time and a place for each. Out in the open I prefer bigger turns these days...less work for me. :wink: In trees, however, big sweeping GS turns have very, very limited utility. :lol:

 

[Tony Crocker]

I guess we've been giving admin too hard a time. :-k I need to be nicer since I'm skiing with him this weekend.

 

[tirolerpeter]

Hey everybody, why so testy? Is everyone suffering from a "wedgie?" The stuff coming down all morning realy sucked! It plastered itself against our goggles constantly. It was some sort of moisture that became ice nearly instantly on contact with the goggles (or anything else we were wearing). Skiing in the trees was marginally better only because there is better contrast and ground vision even with obscured goggles.

I did stay longer because I was being courteous to an eastern visitor with limited ski time. However, it was a total surprise to see the sky brighten and the "crap" coming down cease. After that, whatever you want to call it, skied really well for the rest of the day.

Today was basically miserable too. While there were only very short periods of "crap" coming down, the real problem was the very flat light combined with the fog that kept blowing in. One trip over to Sugarloaf was enough and we came back to ski the Collins trees and the trees off the Wildcat lift. The snow is nice and deep in those woods.

Skidog, I'm only up to 29 days because I was out of town (east coast) for 16 days!

 

[EMSC]

I need to be nicer since I'm skiing with him this weekend.

Though we now have firm confirmation of why the western US is in a warming and sunnier trend for the next week :lol:

When are you leaving UT? We need to plan for some powder days right after that don't we?

 

[Admin]

When are you leaving UT? We need to plan for some powder days right after that don't we?

I've already scheduled my vacation days.

 

[Marc_C]

Hey everybody, why so testy? Is everyone suffering from a "wedgie?"

Cause some of us here get really tired of the know-it-all attitude of folks that don't live here or ski here regularly [note: a short one or two week visit a year, no matter for however many years, isn't "regularly"].

The stuff coming down all morning realy sucked! It plastered itself against our goggles constantly. It was some sort of moisture that became ice nearly instantly on contact with the goggles (or anything else we were wearing). Skiing in the trees was marginally better only because there is better contrast and ground vision even with obscured goggles.

That's the point those of us who are here were trying to make - apparently falling upon ears that don't want to hear.

 

[Admin]

Oh, and BTW...

Hey everybody, why so testy? Is everyone suffering from a "wedgie?"

Don't go there. Just. Don't. Go. There. :twisted:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11436086

I had prior obligations so I could not join Bobby

 

[Skidog]

Skidog, I'm only up to 29 days because I was out of town (east coast) for 16 days!

I was back east too....only 7 days though, but still...get on it man....

M

 

[tirolerpeter]

Skidog, I'm only up to 29 days because I was out of town (east coast) for 16 days!

I was back east too....only 7 days though, but still...get on it man....

M

Kingslug and I did Snowbird today. It was day 30 for me. I met him at the Peruvian chair and we worked some lines below the Circ. We then went around the front on Rothman's and skied over into Gad Valley. We were not impressed by the snow quality but did find some nice chutes off the Gad2 chair. The Tram was closed, but then Little Cloud opened and we took a trip up. Big mistake! The wind was positively fierce and the woman who got off the chair in front of us was in tears and nearly immobilised. I'm really not sure how her companion manged to get her off the ridge and down the mountain. The stuff blowing at us was actually painful. We then went back to the Peruvian chair and found the wind much more pleasant. We had luck in hooking up with a long-time Snowbird local who took us out on some traverses and showed us his "secret" powder stashes. We returned to the car, parked along the By-Pass Road smiling and tired after enjoying a real "Blue-Bird Day."

 

[Marc_C]

The Tram was closed, but then Little Cloud opened and we took a trip up. Big mistake! The wind was positively fierce and the woman who got off the chair in front of us was in tears and nearly immobilised.

Um, if the Tram was closed due to winds, why on earth would anyone head to Little Cloud? #-o

 

[tirolerpeter]

The Tram was closed, but then Little Cloud opened and we took a trip up. Big mistake! The wind was positively fierce and the woman who got off the chair in front of us was in tears and nearly immobilised.

Um, if the Tram was closed due to winds, why on earth would anyone head to Little Cloud? #-o

Because we could? :?

 

[Marc_C]

The Tram was closed, but then Little Cloud opened and we took a trip up. Big mistake! The wind was positively fierce and the woman who got off the chair in front of us was in tears and nearly immobilised.

Um, if the Tram was closed due to winds, why on earth would anyone head to Little Cloud? #-o

Because we could? :?

Hey, if you're gonna play the part of local guide, you gotta know when to bail! :-"

 

[salida]

I beg to differ. Yesterday was a really damn good day at the Bird. North Baldy was unbelievably good. The wind was blowing, but it wasn't that strong. Germania pass registered a max gust of 41 mph yesterday. So uncrowded, great sugar snow. Couldn't ask for a nicer day.

 

[kingslug]

When I have some time I'll post a TR with some good pics. Coming from the east every day here is a good day. And yes freezing fog sux but I make the best of it. It still doesn't compare with getting plastered by snowguns...at least I could scrape it off my goggles...snowgun crap needs a blowtorch to remove.