Snowbird, UT 4/6/06

[Admin]

Day 47:

Man, it's cranking up here! The road was snow-covered from the mouth of the canyon, but really got greasy from Tanner's on up. I've come up for a couple of runs before work, and opted for Snowbird due to an opening 15 minutes earlier and lots of trees in Gad Valley for visibility.

More later - time to boot up!



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[Admin]

Five words sum up my pre-work morning:

Face shots in Restaurant Row.

It's positively puking up there. It's dense -- 10-12% -- but density is probably a good thing as it thoroughly covers the crust beneath.

Gad 2, the Tram, and Little Cloud were all on wind hold -- some much for my Gad 2 trees theory. Instead I lapped 9,928 verts on Gadzoom. My theory of starting 15 minutes earlier at Snowbird was sunk, too, as avi control delayed the loading of the chair until...yep...9:15.

No matter. Skied Gadzoom trees until that got tracked up, not tracked out, then headed out the traverse to Restaurant Row, only the 4th person to go that way. Yowza!! Great stuff.

Lather, rinse, repeat until I left for work. People eventually caught on to the Restaurant Row traverse option, but there's so much out there that I found untracked on each trip.

The stuff was so dense that you had to keep up your speed and ski nothing flatter than an intermediate pitch, but damn, it was fun!

The Sheriff was stopping 2WD cars without chains via a roadblock at the bottom of the canyon. That's a good thing, too, for the road was greasier than I've seen in a while. The entire down-canyon trip was in 1st gear.

 

[Marc_C]

Looks like nice, light, fluffy snow! :twisted: Love the gack in the beard. At least you made it down canyon before they closed the road for a bit....
and before all the lifts were shut down....
and before Snowbird and Alta went to interlodge...
and before the road reopened to downhill traffic only and only from Bird entrance #1 (closed to all traffic above that point).

Gotta love that Wasatch spring weather! :lol:

 

[Admin]

I've been suffering through a power outage since mid-afternoon, so we're sitting here with a fireplace for heat and a transistor radio for sound. KSL is reporting 32 inches new up there.