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Sounds like a nice excursion, and close to home. Maybe easier on cross country skis. Sounds like Jake loved it.

A caveat is having the right skis. Wider skis will make the transition to powder much easier. I skied with wider skis for the first time this year (2011 BD Zealots), and they made skiing powder much easier, more enjoyable, and less tiring. Mine are a little long (192's), but I still did fine in...

Nice pictures. Looks like you got some great snow and good terrain. How much vertical did you get in a typical day? I'm sure earning your turns keeps that number down, but the quality is there.

Nice trip! Steep and deep. Perhaps the Crocker Curse is wearing off?

You're welcome. Nice pictures! Looks like some steep terrain, and not much competition for it.

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I got to the meeting spot about 10 min. late and missed Admin and crew. I did see Bobby Danger and Amy Z in the Hidden Lake liftline awhile later, but lost sight of them at the top. I still had a great day. I would rather ski powder at PowMow a day after a storm than fight for scraps at one of...

Thanks. I got it done, finally.

Are you sure FastStone is the one you're talking about? I downloaded FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1, but could not find any option for saving by size.

Can someone walk me through the steps to reducing file size to under 200kb without making the photos look bad? What software, etc.?

Any meeting place/time? I may go to PowMow- the alternative for me is the Snowbird zoo.

Once I saw that Snowbasin had finally gotten a decent dump from the last leg of this week's storm (13" overnight for a 72 hour total of 19"), I decided to go there. I didn't get as early a start as I should have (the friends I'm staying with live less than 15 miles away, but it took awhile to...

Thanks for the useful info.

Do you think there will be enough accumulated fresh snow from these storms at SB (or PM) Friday to make it a good powder day? Or will the local powder hounds take Friday off and make short work of it?

I'm staying much closer to Snowbasin and PowMow than LCC on this trip. I was just put off by the low snow totals from this series of storms for the Northern areas. Do you think there is enough new snow to make it decent? I like both of those areas, but only 6 inches or so totals may not be...

Now I see why there wasn't much fresh left by the time I got there at 2:30 for the late afternoon session. I still enjoyed it, and did find some powder in the trees. A couple of people I rode up the lift with said that the fresh snow was pretty well tracked out by 10 or 10:30 AM. I guess there...

Thanks for the tip. Are you talking about near the park and ride lot where Wasatch Blvd. meets Little Cottonwood Road?

After looking at the UTA schedule, looks like that may foil my Alta late Thurs "half day" plan, as my flight is due in at 11:45 AM. I doubt if I would have a chance to make the bus that arrives at Alta at 12:30, and the next one after that arrives at 3:24 PM. Any other suggestions for a half...

It was delayed about a month, but I'm finally getting back to SLC from Thurs. thru Monday. I'm flying in around noon on Thursday, and I'm going to try to get up to Alta for the 2:30-4:30 session. Given that I'll be driving a 2wd rental car, am I likely to have to take UTA up, if it's still...

An airbag backpack helped save Elyse Saugstad's life: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/deadly- ... t-15750350 It's scary that the experienced backcountry skiers thought they were in a safe zone when the avalanche hit. Probably best to stay inbounds when avalanche danger is officially listed as...