E. Nigma
New member
I headed up to Solitude this morning to ski for 90 minutes with Admin's friend Mira, who opted to stay over an extra day due to the forecast for 8-15" of new snow.
The storm, unfortunately, didn't materialize as forecast. About 4 inches awaited this morning as the storm tried to get its act together.
As deserted as Snowbird was for Admin's crew on Tuesday, Solitude was positively empty today. Perhaps 2 dozen cars sat in the Moonbeam lot at 9:15. Groomers were tilled out before the snowfall started, so it was firm and fast cruising through four untouched inches upon the groomed runs, with the new snow sitting atop cut-up powder and a very mild suncrust on some of the ungroomed terrain.
The Summit and Honeycomb chairs are done for the season (Solitude closes this Sunday), so the only access into Honeycomb was via the Powderhorn, Eagle and Navarrone gates. We started off on Eagle Express, carving blazing turns through untracked snow on Serenity. We rode back up Eagle and headed back out Rhapsody, which was tricky with the cut-up base. Up Powderhorn and into Black Forest, which as usual yielded the deepest runs of the day through semi-tracked. We had to take the full Honeycomb Return back around, as the lift wasn't running. I haven't done that in years, and I forgot about just how beautiful the forest is back there.
Back up Eagle Express, down Olympia and back to the Powderhorn lift, where we found delightful semi-tracked amongst the trees between Concord and Paradise before I had to bid Mira farewell and trudge on off to work.
The storm, unfortunately, didn't materialize as forecast. About 4 inches awaited this morning as the storm tried to get its act together.
As deserted as Snowbird was for Admin's crew on Tuesday, Solitude was positively empty today. Perhaps 2 dozen cars sat in the Moonbeam lot at 9:15. Groomers were tilled out before the snowfall started, so it was firm and fast cruising through four untouched inches upon the groomed runs, with the new snow sitting atop cut-up powder and a very mild suncrust on some of the ungroomed terrain.
The Summit and Honeycomb chairs are done for the season (Solitude closes this Sunday), so the only access into Honeycomb was via the Powderhorn, Eagle and Navarrone gates. We started off on Eagle Express, carving blazing turns through untracked snow on Serenity. We rode back up Eagle and headed back out Rhapsody, which was tricky with the cut-up base. Up Powderhorn and into Black Forest, which as usual yielded the deepest runs of the day through semi-tracked. We had to take the full Honeycomb Return back around, as the lift wasn't running. I haven't done that in years, and I forgot about just how beautiful the forest is back there.
Back up Eagle Express, down Olympia and back to the Powderhorn lift, where we found delightful semi-tracked amongst the trees between Concord and Paradise before I had to bid Mira farewell and trudge on off to work.