Alta, UT 12/24/2013

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Day 20: Ho-hum, another sleeper powder day.

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I really didn't expect half of what we got today, but the wind was on auto-groom all night and smoothed out that 9" of graupel from Sunday, and we picked up another inch or so overnight. Bumps and old tracks magically disappeared. It was wonderful! It's always nice when expectations are substantially exceeded.

I was with Skidog and jojo_obrien for much of the day, until somewhere along the way we lost jojo, not once but twice (that boy needs to pay closer attention!) and we picked up mbaydala to replace him.

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We spent the morning on Wildcat as the bulk of today's traffic rode Collins even though there was almost nothing to ski off that lift worth skiing as virtually everything through a gate was closed. About 11:30 a.m. ASP finally got over their jitters from yesterday's event and opened the High T. Skidog and I ripped a completely untracked Watson Line/Christmas Tree combo, and then went back for two helpings of Greeley Bowl/Greeley Hill/North Rustler before calling it a day shortly before 1 p.m. so I could come home and get this house ready for tonight's ski orphans' party. Greeley Bowl in particular was the perfect consistency for huge, untracked arcs as fast as you wanted to go. AmyZ arrived right as I was leaving and I suspect that Bobby D wasn't far behind her.

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Merry Christmas to all of our faithful readers!
 
Looks pretty crappy. Glad I'm here at work writing up a government-required document instead. Besides, thanks to a certain mod we all know that skiing here before xmas has a 72.3473% chance of being lousy.
 
Marc_C":3hswdzhr said:
Besides, thanks to a certain mod we all know that skiing here before xmas has a 72.3473% chance of being lousy.
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:rotfl: But what's the standard deviation?

Fixed the date on the post title. I must be brain-dead to not get today's date correct!
 
i like the pace with Bobby and Amy and admin .......but Matt goes hogwild and I still don't know the mountain..............we're going to (________) ....I'm like.................where IS that? next thing I know, I'm skiing solo...............

I'm taking it easy/cautious on the traverses so I don't take half the ptex out of my base................

it's all good ..........i do manage to find some sick lines myself as I'm starting to learn the mountain and where to put myself....

it was a very good day.......fresh tracks......skiied from opening to 3pm......a few scraps left at 2pm but otherwise, the best part of the day was obviously when they opened the high T.........those first few runs (especially the first) were sublime............

curious to know if they'll open anything else tomorrow........
 
jojo_obrien":cn2novze said:
i like the pace with Bobby and Amy and admin .......but Matt goes hogwild and I still don't know the mountain..............we're going to (________) ....I'm like.................where IS that? next thing I know, I'm skiing solo...............
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Hint 1: memorize the trail map
Hint 2: memorize the relationship of terrain areas to one another
Hint 3: memorize the lift names, where they go, and what terrain is accessible from them
Hint 4: read Brad Asmus' book cover to cover, repeatedly
Hint 5: figure out where Asmus is in error
Hint 6: purchase and seriously study the Alta Ski Patrol map
 
Skrad":21t9tkkt said:
Or just look around and see where you want to go if you have other things to do with your time.
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Yeah, but that doesn't help too much with his original quandary, when people say "Let's do Thirds" or how to get to Greeley Bowl (which isn't at all obvious with just casual observation) or how to not wait at the wrong lift.
 
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