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That, and Admin's comment about Big Emma's potential for turning into a "..killing field" also kept me off the mountain today. I hope "storm #2" actually turns into a dump.

Went up to Snowbird around 11 AM today to tally "Day 1" of my 2009-2010 season. Gadzoom was open and coverage was pretty good, so I lapped that for around three hours. I was surprised at how few people were actually there, and I scored a good parking spot right near Creekside lodge. Got a...

Great to see your first report Marc. I just got in from Beijing tonight , after 23 days in the far east. I want to report that a UT inversion can't compare to the air in Beijing. We literally couldn't see beyond 100 yards in DAYLIGHT! I can't wait to breath some air at altitude.

Enjoy your BD Verdicts Sharon. I have put around 150 days on mine over the past two seasons. While I like them very much, I do find them rather "loose" on surfaces that are packed down hard. I tend to use them mostly on powder days, or off the trails proper when it hasn't snowed too...

A few years ago my wife and I drove across "Craters of the Moon" on a run from Jackson Hole to Sun Valley. We were scouting various locations to decide on where to live in retirement. My wife found the terrain so desolate and hostile looking that she didn't even want to get out of the car at...

I'm at 87 days and it doesn't look too good for more at this point. Out of town travel during the season that totaled nearly weeks definitely cut my number of days on the snow. The vast majority of days were at Alta and Snowbird. I also got in a day each at Snowbasin, Brighton, and Solitude...

Yeah Skidog, you were definitely being "generous"about Pizza and the Mississippi. After two years on the Wasatch Front, we have yet to find any pizza beyond "edible" in all the places we have tried. The sacrifices we have have had to make for great snow are amazing.

Thought about going over to the "Bird" today, but found too much good stuff to ski at Alta to bother. Did a lot of tree runs off Collins and the High T and kept finding soft untracked powder pillows. I also made progressively farther forays out the T and finally ended going out around the end...

I enjoyed an amazing amount of POW at Alta today. It was already deep as I started my day (around 11:00 AM) and it continued to snow so hard that my tracks were actually filling in between runs. A friend of mine from the east has been checking conditions and he called me this AM to ask if I...

Looks like you had a great time Tony. Great pictures. We might be getting a "dump" here in the Wasatch starting Tuesday evening. We all have our fingers crossed! [-o<

Admin nailed it. I got up there about 11 AM and had to park up by the High Rustler Lodge. Skiing down to the tow rope started my day in the powder. There wasn't a line I skied today that didn't have face shot potential. "Cold Smoke" is a good description for the stuff that was blowing up...

After Admin left for his nap, I went up Wildcat with Bobby D and Skidog and then hiked up to the Keyhole gate into Snowbird. We dropped down to the Tram and then rode back up to the top where Bobby D met a Skipatroller friend who decided to take a run with us. They immediately hit the cornice...

When there are dips and bumps that try to "misdirect" your progress, and areas where rocks are either loose or poking up through the traverse, I tend to characterize it as "a bit rough."

I too did a "relaxed start" today. The Sheriff had sent out a canyon closure alert indicating that the anticipated opening would be at 10 AM. Around 10:15 I called a friend and he indicated that he had gotten a "Canyon Will Open at 10:AM" Text but he was still sitting motionless in traffic...

I was out of town for a week, but kept track of conditions and weather on the web. I suspected that surfaces would be kind of "crispy" yesterday so I didn't go up to Alta until around 11 AM. Anticipating conditions, I didn't bother using my BD's and stepped into my trusty old steel capped...

I really do like Snowbasin as far as the terrain and facilities are concerned. The place is beautiful. When I decided to move to UT several years ago I initially shopped for a home near the resort. But, after I learned that the overall altitude is lower then LCC and that the snow generally...

NeedhamSkier, your recent trip points out how critical luck is when making a long distance ski trip. Missing the "good stuff" was always an issue for me when I lived in the east. Regardless of "average" snowfall amounts and mountain statistics, I never really could be sure what I would find at...

Conditions in LCC were excellent today. Mother nature dropped an official 11" on Alta last night. While it wasn't the lightest UT fluff it was/is POWDER. And, in addition to some of the "secret" powder shots that delivered even more then Alta posted, there was an amazing amount of untracked...

What's your take on this? Excerpt from a report from the Northeast, where it was epic snow, warm, warmer, really warm with lots of rain, then 15F. -m > Wow - 15 years or so patrolling and Saturday had to be one of the worst days I've seen. > > The trails had wall to wall, top to bottom...

It's pretty bad rog. Best you stay home.