Recent content by Marc Guido

Not a clue. But I've been a passholder since January 2005, and they could make snow back then surrounding Alf's. So, sometime prior to 2005. Of course, most summers see a modest improvement somewhere: a new fan gun here, an upgraded water line there. There are no snowmaking reservoirs to work...

Alta opens without Sunnyside somewhat often, actually. Many years, if the snow pack is thin it's just Collins and Wildcat. Alta has snowmaking top to bottom on just about every blue and green groomer off every lift, other than Supreme. It's holiday insurance. So that means: Collins: Mambo...

First off, congrats to FTO's new owner Tony Crocker and a successful migration to XenForo. The new interface looks great! Here's hoping that Tony can restore FTO to the success that it once enjoyed. I hear that the prior owner is happy to have passed on the responsibility. :LOL: Secondly, just...

Who is this Mrs. Admin you speak of, and what does she have to do with Ann?

Went up to Alta yesterday to cruise around the groomers with Ann E. Nigma. I'm very proud to say that she can now ski anything that Alta grooms, including yesterday Collins Face, Sleepy Hollow and Extrovert. On the blues I skied at a moderate pace and she was always right behind me. This is a...

Spent the day cruising around Canyons with Mrs. Nigma. Supposed to be cloudy, but sun shone most of the day. Stuck to the groomers, but even ungroomed looked reasonably soft. Groomers were firm and fast. More snow than I've ever seen before in Dreamcatcher. The base village is far more...

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...

While last night's storm was a bit more fizzle than sizzle, we did pick up 3 or 4 inches of new snow on Solitude's slopes. I took a short break from work today to head up for a few runs with friend Roger, visiting from Vermont, and his Utah friend Keith. The rain/snow line was around 7,000...

I opted to escape the haze of this week's slight inversion in the Salt Lake Valley and take a couple of lunch hour runs at Solitude. On the way up they were cleaning up a nifty little accident at Dogwood in BCC. One downhill vehicle had lost it on black ice (the road was particularly slick...

I took a break from work yesterday to make a few runs with friends from out of town. Cover in BCC is still lagging behind that in LCC, but it's skiing rather well for mid-December, and there's still a heckuva lot more snow back in Honeycomb than there is on the front side. With that in mind...

Solitude: It was. I headed up to Solitude for a couple of runs over my lunch hour. The place was deserted, but that shouldn't surprise me. What did surprise me was the snow surface -- I expected some crustiness with a temperature inversion taking hold of the Wasatch all week, but surprisingly...

BTW, UDOT was playing with some pretty big bottle rockets in BCC this morning.

Hey, FTOers - it sure feels good to be back! I took an early lunch break from workin' for the big man to squeeze in four quick runs at Solitude. There's not nearly as much snow as in Little Cottonwood Canyon, but the cruising was fun nonetheless. We've been under persistent warm high pressure...

I can't think of a better way to start a mid-April work day than with a foot of medium-density pow over 157 inches of settled mid-mountain base! The chain/4x4 road restrictions in LCC this morning were a joke -- there wasn't a single flake of snow on the asphalt all the way to Snowbird. I...

How about before work? :wink: