Day 9: Instant ski season.
It's pretty hard to ignore 39 inches of snowfall in 48 hours. It was falling 2-4" per hour yesterday, and while still snowing lightly today the storm is pretty much done. UDOT closed Little Cottonwood Road this morning to blast, but it was open by 7:45. I was in the canyon by 8:20, in plenty of time to make the 9:15 opening bell.
Bobby Danger, Skidog and I each took the day off and met up at GMD as usual. I was still pretty wooped from yesterday and knew that it would be a short day. Bumped into Salida on a pre-opening pee break before he went back out to wait in line for the opening.
We started the day with the same limited terrain as yesterday. Patrol was bombing like crazy. We still found untracked by thinking carefully, and also thanks to the wind which was on auto-groom late in the day yesterday.
We started on Collins, but moved on to Wildcat.
We once again found what we were looking for on Restaurant Hill.
We noticed the bombs had slowed so we took a chance and returned to Collins, and were rewarded when they reopened West Rustler.
Scored two runs out there, one completely untracked in the trees between Jitterbug and Christmas Tree, and one in fluffy, lightly tracked snow on High Boy. Ran into mbaydala on the traverse just as we were dropping into Christmas Tree.
My legs, however, died on High Boy, so Bobby and I called it a morning while Skidog went back for one more.
So, the only thing to open all morning that wasn't open yesterday was West Rustler from the Tower 10 traverse. They're really letting this stuff settle and bond, which is understandable as the storm dropped a positively ridiculous 3.5" of water weight upon our fragile snowpack. Snowbird has already announced that they'll open P-Gulch tomorrow.
It's pretty hard to ignore 39 inches of snowfall in 48 hours. It was falling 2-4" per hour yesterday, and while still snowing lightly today the storm is pretty much done. UDOT closed Little Cottonwood Road this morning to blast, but it was open by 7:45. I was in the canyon by 8:20, in plenty of time to make the 9:15 opening bell.
Bobby Danger, Skidog and I each took the day off and met up at GMD as usual. I was still pretty wooped from yesterday and knew that it would be a short day. Bumped into Salida on a pre-opening pee break before he went back out to wait in line for the opening.
We started the day with the same limited terrain as yesterday. Patrol was bombing like crazy. We still found untracked by thinking carefully, and also thanks to the wind which was on auto-groom late in the day yesterday.
We started on Collins, but moved on to Wildcat.
We once again found what we were looking for on Restaurant Hill.
We noticed the bombs had slowed so we took a chance and returned to Collins, and were rewarded when they reopened West Rustler.
Scored two runs out there, one completely untracked in the trees between Jitterbug and Christmas Tree, and one in fluffy, lightly tracked snow on High Boy. Ran into mbaydala on the traverse just as we were dropping into Christmas Tree.
My legs, however, died on High Boy, so Bobby and I called it a morning while Skidog went back for one more.
So, the only thing to open all morning that wasn't open yesterday was West Rustler from the Tower 10 traverse. They're really letting this stuff settle and bond, which is understandable as the storm dropped a positively ridiculous 3.5" of water weight upon our fragile snowpack. Snowbird has already announced that they'll open P-Gulch tomorrow.
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