Snowbasin, UT 3/27/2010

[Admin]

Day 47: 4" of new never skied this well.

Holy cow. Hard to believe that a four-inch day will go down as one of the most memorable days of the season, but today certainly will. Blue skies, warm temperatures, and untracked powder and untracked corn all in the same run. It just doesn't get much better than that.

The final shot from yesterday's storm was predicted to track north, and Bobby Danger, The Other Bobby D, Tele Jon and I all hatched a plan to head north to Snowbasin to take advantage of it. By 9 p.m. last night, however, the National Weather Service had canceled all Winter Weather Advisories after the storm left a foot in Little Cottonwood and only four inches at Snowbasin. Pulling into the parking lot this morning, I was having pangs of regret.

They were, however, completely unfounded. Snowbasin was positively deserted today. At the end of the day we were still finding untracked shots within sight of the lifts. We were catching powder up high and corn down low, with perma-grins stuck to our faces all day long. Low-angle terrain meant you'd seldom bottom out with big sticks and nimble turns, even on four inches of dense new snow. I mean, what's not to like about this?:

Food, from french toast and sausage with strawberries for breakfast, to cioppino for lunch atop John Paul complete with green-lipped mussels, shrimp and crab claws just couldn't be beat. We pounded all day, without even taking a break. I mean, why stop when it's this good?

We took a run with Snowbasin communications diva Jodi Holmgren, who despite never having skied Demoisey Bowl, proceeded to rip it up and put us to shame.

Enough superlatives, though, for I'm beat and I'll just let the photos do the talking from here on out.

And Skidog, you're right -- it sucked, I don't know what we were thinking. :wink:

:lol:

Snowbasin has phenomenally uncrowded, expansive and diverse terrain. I really have to get up there more often...

 

[Admin]

One more photo, from the @SnowbasinResort Twitter feed today:

(Admin and Tele Jon)

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Sounds very similar to what a certain beloved visitor said a year ago to this day:

It seems to have everything covered terrain-wise -- chutes, cirques, and bowls at the very top for the hardcores, and gullies, meadows, and skiable trees everywhere else. (...) If I lived here, Snowbasin would get my season pass vote.

Any more pix of Jodi? :-k

 

[Bobby Danger]

day51.. started partly cloudy with temps in the mid twenty's with the cloud and sunshine line basically sitting atop no name peak upon arrival. sub surfaces were hard and for the most part on 85% of what we skied track free.. three of those four inches that fell were grauple with about an inch or so maybe two inches of dense dendrytes mixed in was more like five or six inches as soon as you were out of the base area earles lodge sits in somewhat of a weather hole as compared to the rest of the place. all of these pics. for the exception of the demoisey bowl run were achieved without hike. for the most part i'd have to say that 95% of the four thousand five hundred + acres is a mogul free zone . cold & trackless snow was found all the way to the base area on the last run of the day . powder and champagne corn were more prevalent out in strawberry area as some of the terrain has rolls that face due south that were perfect corn one & a half inches deep perfectly supportable at every elevation on every aspect but it had to face south as any thing even to the base area that had any other kind of aspect was still cold snow. some of the runs in the center of the area were down the north side of ridges in the trees two thousand vert. of bliss. mt. ogden bowl & chute were reported to be opening today (sunday) for skiing from the summit from some of the pics that were taken i'd say there were some good lines left . and the girl can ski !!!

 

[Tony Crocker]

Overall this day sounds very similar to Brundage last Monday. 5 inches new with zero competition on consistent intermediate pitch where we could mostly float in the new snow with minimal disruption from the old base underneath.

powder and champagne corn were more prevalent out in strawberry area as some of the terrain has rolls that face due south that were perfect corn one & a half inches deep perfectly supportable

This is exactly what we get on a good day in Eric's at Mt. Baldy like Feb. 28.

 

[Bobby Danger]

tony take a long weekend and fly up salt and pepper are ready off the south flank of mt. ogden any sunny day till closing day that o.b. is open actually this year the peak and adjasent ridge lines are in bounds closed in bad conditions of course.