I wrote one of my first Resort Guides on Snowbird in 1997: you can find it listed with 20+ others at <A HREF="http://bestsnow.net/insdtrak.htm" TARGET="_top">http://bestsnow.net/insdtrak.htm</A>. <BR> <BR>Because of the timing there is no discussion of Mineral Basin. With the sunny exposure I would not expect much from Mineral Basin under current conditions. Traffic flow at Snowbird is smoother than when I wrote the 1997 article due to both the Mineral Basin expansion and the addition of 3 high speed lifts. <BR> <BR>Snowbird is my personal favorite lift serviced area out of 79 skied and I have about 700K vertical lifetime there since 1981. <BR> <BR>I have seen it only once with thin snow cover, Christmas 1986-87, and you have to stay up on Little Cloud and maybe Gad 2 to avoid a very rocky lower mountain if the lower reported base depth is less than about 50 inches (it's 32 now). <BR> <BR>If it stays like this, you'll ski more days at Alta where both the Albion and Wildcat base areas are more than adequately covered. Brighton was also OK that Christmas. <BR> <BR>I am sympathetic to the situation. 1977 was the only past year where Snowbird's coverage would have been marginal Feb. 1. I am headed to equally snow-starved (and historically reliable) Fernie the same week.
