Just a quick report.
After spending this week driving a moving truck, eating a diet of fast food, and unpacking boxes, I had to get onto the hill today even if my body screamed in opposition. Looking at the tram line, I headed down to Gadzoom at 8:45, looking around in amazement that I was actually calling this "home" now.
First run, I dove into the steep trees to skier's left of Gadzoom above Mid-Gad, but I was sucking wind after only a few turns. I racked up two more runs before meeting my buddy Marc and his friend Pat to ski with them for the rest of the day.
Snow cover was excellent. Only Upper Tigertail was closed, the result of an earlier avalanche. A huge fracture line spans an entire bowl beneath Gad II, the result of an overnight natural slide a few weeks ago. Surface quality was good, too, and we got reasonably fresh lines in Peruvian Cirque as well as in some tree islands in Peruvian Gulch. I developed a new appreciation for Snowbird today, learning how to access Peruvian from Little Cloud across the top of Regulator Johnson, traversing along the west side of the ridge a la the High Traverse at Alta. That makes for one long, loooong run back to the base.
We never got over to Mineral Basin at all.
Lift lines on the chairs maxed at 5-10 minutes all day, but our one tram ride after lunch had a line 2 or 3 cabins long. By 2:30 the fog had rolled back up the canyon again, and visibility on the lower mountain dropped significantly. I was shot, anyway, and called it a day early.
Sorry, I forgot the camera at home today.
After spending this week driving a moving truck, eating a diet of fast food, and unpacking boxes, I had to get onto the hill today even if my body screamed in opposition. Looking at the tram line, I headed down to Gadzoom at 8:45, looking around in amazement that I was actually calling this "home" now.
First run, I dove into the steep trees to skier's left of Gadzoom above Mid-Gad, but I was sucking wind after only a few turns. I racked up two more runs before meeting my buddy Marc and his friend Pat to ski with them for the rest of the day.
Snow cover was excellent. Only Upper Tigertail was closed, the result of an earlier avalanche. A huge fracture line spans an entire bowl beneath Gad II, the result of an overnight natural slide a few weeks ago. Surface quality was good, too, and we got reasonably fresh lines in Peruvian Cirque as well as in some tree islands in Peruvian Gulch. I developed a new appreciation for Snowbird today, learning how to access Peruvian from Little Cloud across the top of Regulator Johnson, traversing along the west side of the ridge a la the High Traverse at Alta. That makes for one long, loooong run back to the base.
We never got over to Mineral Basin at all.
Lift lines on the chairs maxed at 5-10 minutes all day, but our one tram ride after lunch had a line 2 or 3 cabins long. By 2:30 the fog had rolled back up the canyon again, and visibility on the lower mountain dropped significantly. I was shot, anyway, and called it a day early.
Sorry, I forgot the camera at home today.
