Day 33: Big slides.
Mike Bernstein is heading back to L.A. this afternoon and I've got to drive him to the airport, so after bringing him to Alta this morning I opted to stay to ski a few runs and thereafter work from Alta before heading to Salt Lake International. Following last week's 40-something inches of storm total Backside finally opened yesterday afternoon, and this morning I was able to see first-hand the results of explosive control work:
Holy cow, those crowns are huge! Backside ripped clean down to the ground and ran full length in not one, but two places -- debris spilled over the road to the very bottom of Backside.
In my 90 minutes of skiing this morning we managed to catch the rope drop on Ballroom/Baldy Shoulder, which has also been closed since before this storm cycle began. That meant two bottomless laps through Tombstone with almost zero competition, as even now at noon the Wildcat lot is barely one-third full.
Mike Bernstein is heading back to L.A. this afternoon and I've got to drive him to the airport, so after bringing him to Alta this morning I opted to stay to ski a few runs and thereafter work from Alta before heading to Salt Lake International. Following last week's 40-something inches of storm total Backside finally opened yesterday afternoon, and this morning I was able to see first-hand the results of explosive control work:
Holy cow, those crowns are huge! Backside ripped clean down to the ground and ran full length in not one, but two places -- debris spilled over the road to the very bottom of Backside.
In my 90 minutes of skiing this morning we managed to catch the rope drop on Ballroom/Baldy Shoulder, which has also been closed since before this storm cycle began. That meant two bottomless laps through Tombstone with almost zero competition, as even now at noon the Wildcat lot is barely one-third full.
