Day 2.
Mrs. Admin wanted to return to Alta today to skin up Collins Gulch. However, about 100 yards into the climb her boot pain was already too much for her. She's had issues since we bought the boots last season but I've been reluctant to do anything to them until she had a good half dozen days on them, which is about where we're at now. There was apparently some bruising from yesterday, and that bruising was being accentuated by getting back into the boots the following day.
So while she turned tail and returned to the truck I made it a quick one, up the Collins Road and Meadow to the Collins Angle Station, a mile and 810 vertical feet. The run down Meadow and Corkscrew took only maybe 90 seconds, but it felt good to be making turns. Coverage is wall-to-wall, although admittedly the manmade felt awfully firm. Edgeable, but firm. It'll get better once it's been groomed a few more times.
Five short days and we'll be riding lifts. Tonight and tomorrow's storm is still a splitter with most of the energy headed to southern Utah, but the National Weather Service just posted a Winter Weather Advisory for the Wasatch Mountains south of I-80, and they've increased the previous 4-8" forecast to 7-14" through 10 p.m. tomorrow. Admittedly the higher end of that range is forecast for the southern mountains, but let's hope that we're surprised again like we were earlier this week!
After skiing we headed down to Wasatch Powder House for a couple of hours of bootfitting. After a toe punch, an instep punch and a liner bake, Mrs. Admin is now extolling the virtues of her comfortable ski boots and says that she wants to ski next weekend. Nice work Dan Bye! Dan is a graduate of Steve Cohen's MasterFit University, and it showed.
Unfortunately it's now getting dark out, my leaves are still sitting there and they're about to get snowed upon again.
Mrs. Admin wanted to return to Alta today to skin up Collins Gulch. However, about 100 yards into the climb her boot pain was already too much for her. She's had issues since we bought the boots last season but I've been reluctant to do anything to them until she had a good half dozen days on them, which is about where we're at now. There was apparently some bruising from yesterday, and that bruising was being accentuated by getting back into the boots the following day.
So while she turned tail and returned to the truck I made it a quick one, up the Collins Road and Meadow to the Collins Angle Station, a mile and 810 vertical feet. The run down Meadow and Corkscrew took only maybe 90 seconds, but it felt good to be making turns. Coverage is wall-to-wall, although admittedly the manmade felt awfully firm. Edgeable, but firm. It'll get better once it's been groomed a few more times.
Five short days and we'll be riding lifts. Tonight and tomorrow's storm is still a splitter with most of the energy headed to southern Utah, but the National Weather Service just posted a Winter Weather Advisory for the Wasatch Mountains south of I-80, and they've increased the previous 4-8" forecast to 7-14" through 10 p.m. tomorrow. Admittedly the higher end of that range is forecast for the southern mountains, but let's hope that we're surprised again like we were earlier this week!
After skiing we headed down to Wasatch Powder House for a couple of hours of bootfitting. After a toe punch, an instep punch and a liner bake, Mrs. Admin is now extolling the virtues of her comfortable ski boots and says that she wants to ski next weekend. Nice work Dan Bye! Dan is a graduate of Steve Cohen's MasterFit University, and it showed.
Unfortunately it's now getting dark out, my leaves are still sitting there and they're about to get snowed upon again.