Day 15: Another powder day.
After a season to date of empty lifts, valet-style parking and a total lack of competition for tracks, I knew that today would be different. Visitors are starting to arrive and even the locals are starting to wake up. Add to that a powder day Saturday, and the traffic on Wasatch Boulevard instantly foretold the tale. Instead of cruising up LCC at 40 mph we stopped several times between B Gate and the Racetrack. The lot was already a fifth full at 8:45 a.m. The queue for Collins filled long before the 9:15 a.m. opening.
So we headed to Wildcat, and encountered socal from these forums en route as he flew in last night. He joined us for a stellar run out Westward Ho to the bottom of Bridge Shot. Untracked goodness, about a foot of right side up pow.
Greeley Bowl and Greeley Hill delivered the goods for me while the others headed for Garbage Chute.
We bumped into skrad just before they dropped the rope into Backside. We timed that one perfectly, but there was no time to stop for photos on that run. =P~ Bobby proudly proclaimed that this one run down into Glatch Gully paid for the Alta half of his AltaBird season pass.
It felt good, too, to get on Supreme again this season.
Tower 10 chute itself was firm, but everything from the apron below on down to the bottom was divine and deep. Getting to tower 10 was even so covered this year that it's brainless. Honestly, Tower 10 Chute didn't look that good all last winter. Even at lunch time, we found untracked by eschewing the masses headed for Catherine's and the Spiny Chutes and instead skiing Back 40 not once, but twice.
After lunch The Kid and I were both shot and headed down canyon in anticipation of another day.
After a season to date of empty lifts, valet-style parking and a total lack of competition for tracks, I knew that today would be different. Visitors are starting to arrive and even the locals are starting to wake up. Add to that a powder day Saturday, and the traffic on Wasatch Boulevard instantly foretold the tale. Instead of cruising up LCC at 40 mph we stopped several times between B Gate and the Racetrack. The lot was already a fifth full at 8:45 a.m. The queue for Collins filled long before the 9:15 a.m. opening.
So we headed to Wildcat, and encountered socal from these forums en route as he flew in last night. He joined us for a stellar run out Westward Ho to the bottom of Bridge Shot. Untracked goodness, about a foot of right side up pow.
Greeley Bowl and Greeley Hill delivered the goods for me while the others headed for Garbage Chute.
We bumped into skrad just before they dropped the rope into Backside. We timed that one perfectly, but there was no time to stop for photos on that run. =P~ Bobby proudly proclaimed that this one run down into Glatch Gully paid for the Alta half of his AltaBird season pass.
It felt good, too, to get on Supreme again this season.
Tower 10 chute itself was firm, but everything from the apron below on down to the bottom was divine and deep. Getting to tower 10 was even so covered this year that it's brainless. Honestly, Tower 10 Chute didn't look that good all last winter. Even at lunch time, we found untracked by eschewing the masses headed for Catherine's and the Spiny Chutes and instead skiing Back 40 not once, but twice.
After lunch The Kid and I were both shot and headed down canyon in anticipation of another day.
Yep, that's us...I now remember seeing the filming as we skied by. Crashing someone else's film shot -- that's Bobby laughing, yours truly and the rest of us coming in and out of view early in the video and The Kid flying by at 0:19.