snowbird 1/1/2012

Bobby Danger

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not alot of news same old same old !! fairly quiet holiday weekend at both resorts . cold and windy yesterday morning , today was the opposite, much warmer and dead calm wind and 100% sun . mr. and mrs. m.r.g. skier have the family in town , skied at the bird till 3:15 with them , only one picture was worth taking . this was taken from the top of gad two chair .
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Bobby Danger":38p5pzs6 said:
this was taken from the top of gad two chair .
Sure it wasn't Little Cloud? The angle, even with super-zoom, doesn't seem quite right for Gad II.
 
I'm heading out there to ski next weekend. Guess it is a sad situation, but at least it's not a zero like Tahoe is. (I got stuck in that situation in Jan 1986)
How was Little Cloud Bowl skiing? Could you ski under the chairlift? How about the bowl on Road to Provo? How about Primrose Path?
At least the mountain is open top to bottom and hopefully they will keep making snow, I know I'll get plenty of vertical in anyway.
 
in case it does snow your probably going to want two pairs of skis , this is going to stop the earth from spinning , but you might bring something narrower than powder skis if you only ski on fat skis such as i . i'm 115 under foot , a narrower ski would be quite nice on the harrrrrrdd pack . basically both alta and snowbird are skiing with almost equal conditions , i got ballroom yesterday with amy and skidog before heading west to snowbird, beautiffffuuuuullll out in graveyard two- three inches of wind sift from what fell this week . there is a slight rain crust from some point during the week (matza thick ) , very evident when riding little cloud chair looking west out old ladies towards old reliable , mark malou . the bottom of snowbird is no worse than the bottom of alta , the snowboarders have gone done lower silver fox out in front of the tram building so many times in the same line there is actually a small luge run there with dirt in every turn , quite evident from peruvian chair . the off groomer skiing is hard and fassssssst with ocassional objects sticking out of the snowpack .
 
I'll be leaving my new fat skis at home. I have a feeling, that considering the situation, I'm still going to enjoy this trip and will find enough skiing to have me satisfied. It's a family trip with my daughters, so I can accept less than perfect conditions, (way less). But I feel bad for their friend who is coming along for his first SLC trip, who won't enjoy all the Bird has to offer.
 
SnowbirdDevotee":rsbopj68 said:
But I feel bad for their friend who is coming along for his first SLC trip, who won't enjoy all the Bird has to offer.
One way to deal with the current conditions is to travel around to some of the other areas - don't do it as an exclusively Snowbird trip. It's how I wound up at Brighton several times.
 
oh no. as much as I love that place, i always also ski elsewhere. i have a 3 trip trip and will be skiing Alta and likely it's time for Brighton to take a turn.
 
Bobby Danger":3beyhbev said:
a narrower ski would be quite nice on the harrrrrrdd pack.
Of course, if you bring a pair of skis that are appropriate for the current conditions, you'll get the malocchio from Admin. 8-[
 
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