Gawd, I hate Internet Exploder. I just finished writing this and IE crashed before I could post it. Let's try it with Firefox this time...
I arrived at the ripe old hour of 11am this morning along with Marc_C, hoping that I gave things sufficient time to soften. We quit at 1pm after it didn't, racking up 10,266 verts in those 2 hours.
It was a bit cooler than I expected, and there was a stiff breeze causing evaporational cooling that left the sun crust hard and tricky. We therefore stuck to the groomers on Sugarloaf, Supreme and Collins. As would be expected, there's a ton of cover out there. Crowds were at a minimum for a Saturday, with no more than a 30-second line anywhere, but this is April after all. The Baldy Traverse/Ballroom gate was closed, presumably because of wet sluff slides or falling rocks from the day's heating.
A 12-15" storm is predicted for tomorrow, so that should freshen things up nicely.
After sweating like a pig in my Boeri Shorty yesterday at Snowbasin, I sprung for a Giro Nine and used it today for the first time. Wow, with all the vents, the ear flaps and the neck guard removed, it feels like a bike helmet! Light and comfy, it gets high marks from me.
It did manage to hit the upper 60s down in the Salt Lake Valley, so après-ski, Patricia and I took a drive out across the Great Salt Lake Desert to see the salt flats, do some off-roading in the Silver Island Mountains along the Nevada border north of Wendover, and pick up some real beer instead of the 3.2% water they sell in Utah. I only took one pic at Alta today, so I'll throw in a few of the prettier pictures from the desert trip just because it's such stunning scenery.
As I write this at 11:15 pm, it's still 61 degrees outside in SLC.
I arrived at the ripe old hour of 11am this morning along with Marc_C, hoping that I gave things sufficient time to soften. We quit at 1pm after it didn't, racking up 10,266 verts in those 2 hours.
It was a bit cooler than I expected, and there was a stiff breeze causing evaporational cooling that left the sun crust hard and tricky. We therefore stuck to the groomers on Sugarloaf, Supreme and Collins. As would be expected, there's a ton of cover out there. Crowds were at a minimum for a Saturday, with no more than a 30-second line anywhere, but this is April after all. The Baldy Traverse/Ballroom gate was closed, presumably because of wet sluff slides or falling rocks from the day's heating.
A 12-15" storm is predicted for tomorrow, so that should freshen things up nicely.
After sweating like a pig in my Boeri Shorty yesterday at Snowbasin, I sprung for a Giro Nine and used it today for the first time. Wow, with all the vents, the ear flaps and the neck guard removed, it feels like a bike helmet! Light and comfy, it gets high marks from me.
It did manage to hit the upper 60s down in the Salt Lake Valley, so après-ski, Patricia and I took a drive out across the Great Salt Lake Desert to see the salt flats, do some off-roading in the Silver Island Mountains along the Nevada border north of Wendover, and pick up some real beer instead of the 3.2% water they sell in Utah. I only took one pic at Alta today, so I'll throw in a few of the prettier pictures from the desert trip just because it's such stunning scenery.
As I write this at 11:15 pm, it's still 61 degrees outside in SLC.
