jojo_obrien
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As I recollect on today's day......it might have been the best, if not top 3. Just absolutely perfect......fairly low crowds......beautiful spring time temps (upper 30's), started out with snow, mostly sunny by day's end......endless face shots all day long. Just..........absurdly good.
Started out at Little Cloud -- 3 laps underneath the lift. Beautiful rippable lines- - solid 10" of fresh or windblown. Great way to start the day and warm up. You could feel the subsurface a little bit but generally, it was quite good......the wind really did a number and freshened things up beautifully.
Headed over to Mineral and skied seriously untracked lines. Unreal. I thought it had been skied over yesterday. It really dumped back there yesterday. Visibility was ......so so to start out and got increasingly good as the afternoon went on. I skiied a few lines off of Baldy which were essentially untouched as well.
I went back up Mineral to find out Road to Provo had just opened up. Boy did it ski beautifully.........just a blast - 12- 14" which had not been skiied yesterday I believe. Skied like a dream. Serious face shot city. Line at Little Cloud went fast........ Took 3 laps there before I headed back to Baldy to check the opening at Backside Alta.
Backside Alta had just opened up and it too, having not been opened yesterday skied like a dream. Face shot anyone? Just sso so so so good. Very little traffic. Took 3 laps on Backside which were essentially untouched lines. Very very happy with the lines. Took one lap on Glory Hole which too skied beautifully.
Went back to Baldy to find out that they had Sugar Cliff area opened. It was untouched. Skied like a dream.................so beautiful. Just about perfect. Sun was starting to warm things up and i knew by 230 this area would be baked. I later found out that that was very true -- West facing aspects got baked this afternoon.
I then proceeded into a pattern -- Mineral to Chamonix to Baldy to Sugar Cliffs. Face shot, turn, face shot, turn. Repeat. So so so good. I could not believe how good Chamonix Bowl was skiing at 1:45. Untracked face shots full throttle perfect visibility. It was like that for 4 laps. I did that until about 2:00 until I went over to Alta to check on Ballroom.
Opening looked imminent on Ballroom so I stopped for lunch at 2:00 pm at Collins. Scarfed down a tuna sandwich and headed up to Ballroom opening. It was surpisingly busy IMO. Anyways, finally caught up with Admin and Amyz and and did a run out near Baldy Shoulder. Skiied beautifully as well.
I'll let admin finish the report from this point on. ................I've done enough.
Started out at Little Cloud -- 3 laps underneath the lift. Beautiful rippable lines- - solid 10" of fresh or windblown. Great way to start the day and warm up. You could feel the subsurface a little bit but generally, it was quite good......the wind really did a number and freshened things up beautifully.
Headed over to Mineral and skied seriously untracked lines. Unreal. I thought it had been skied over yesterday. It really dumped back there yesterday. Visibility was ......so so to start out and got increasingly good as the afternoon went on. I skiied a few lines off of Baldy which were essentially untouched as well.
I went back up Mineral to find out Road to Provo had just opened up. Boy did it ski beautifully.........just a blast - 12- 14" which had not been skiied yesterday I believe. Skied like a dream. Serious face shot city. Line at Little Cloud went fast........ Took 3 laps there before I headed back to Baldy to check the opening at Backside Alta.
Backside Alta had just opened up and it too, having not been opened yesterday skied like a dream. Face shot anyone? Just sso so so so good. Very little traffic. Took 3 laps on Backside which were essentially untouched lines. Very very happy with the lines. Took one lap on Glory Hole which too skied beautifully.
Went back to Baldy to find out that they had Sugar Cliff area opened. It was untouched. Skied like a dream.................so beautiful. Just about perfect. Sun was starting to warm things up and i knew by 230 this area would be baked. I later found out that that was very true -- West facing aspects got baked this afternoon.
I then proceeded into a pattern -- Mineral to Chamonix to Baldy to Sugar Cliffs. Face shot, turn, face shot, turn. Repeat. So so so good. I could not believe how good Chamonix Bowl was skiing at 1:45. Untracked face shots full throttle perfect visibility. It was like that for 4 laps. I did that until about 2:00 until I went over to Alta to check on Ballroom.
Opening looked imminent on Ballroom so I stopped for lunch at 2:00 pm at Collins. Scarfed down a tuna sandwich and headed up to Ballroom opening. It was surpisingly busy IMO. Anyways, finally caught up with Admin and Amyz and and did a run out near Baldy Shoulder. Skiied beautifully as well.
I'll let admin finish the report from this point on. ................I've done enough.
