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This is a new video for my other project, Grand Adventure, that combines winter camping with skiing. With warmer spring days and spring nights that are still quite cold, we bring our RV travel trailer to winter camp amongst three feet of snow at Jordanelle State Park and ski at the adjacent Deer...

The Utah Avalanche Center published this today:

As of the time I'm writing this, the storm total is 54" and still counting. Of that, 21" has fallen since 4 pm yesterday. We got about a foot or more at my house in Cottonwood Heights when it came down hard & heavy overnight, and roads even in the Valley were a disaster this morning. Some Valley...

Days 40-52 for me (spanning 1/10-24/2019) ended with a 7-foot storm cycle over the past 8 days including a full-on country club day, getting Interlodged, and the entire mountain closing down at mid-day for too much snow. Crazy! Season to date now totals 271", no matter what cockamamie personal...

After logging 39 ski days thus far (38 at Alta - I spent one day pre-Christmas at Powder Mountain) and nearly a half million vertical feet, it's high time I put up an early season recap. I'm taking a day off the slopes, so why not today? Unlike 2017/2018 we had a tremendous start to the season...

Days 1-2 for Alta, days 1-2 for me. Alta opened on Friday with 9" of new snow overnight and top-to-bottom skiing in the "Mambo Corridor" as the resort called it. That meant Mambo/Meadow/Corkscrew, but there were some other goodies available, including Aggie's Alley, the whole WIldcat Ridge from...

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Yeah, I know -- I've been bad. That's set to change shortly. Here's a video wrap-up of Alta from the first closing weekend April 14, through the very final day May 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZeYfiJLOBo

(OK, before I post let's just get this out of the way: I'm alive, I'm not abandoning FTO, etc. More to come.) I just got back from 5 days skiing through southern Idaho, where they're hurting for snow just like most of the western U.S. We were snowcat skiing at Soldier Mountain, skiing...

Day 8 I would've been happy with 6" given the forecast. I was positively tickled with 14"! (and still snowing lightly). Today was a day that under promised and over delivered. It was also the first day for Alta's new Supreme lift. Most gates were closed throughout the day, but Alta surprised...

Days 6-7 Friend Scott and I went to Snowbird on Saturday morning and hooked up with BobMc and TravieB. They were running the Tram, Gadzoom, Mid-Gad and for the first time this season Gad 2, although the only open route off of Gad 2 was Election, leading back to Bassackwards. In contrast to...

Days 4-5 Alta's second full weekend of operation turned out to be full of surprises. By Sunday, they actually opened Backside! And unbelievably I was the absolute first customer through the gate this season, thanks to both fortunate timing and a bit of prescience. :bow: What's more, they...

Day 3. After skiing on Sunday I picked up some new Atomic Backland FR 102s at a great price and had them mounted with some Dynafits that I've had laying around in the box for a couple of seasons. After Monday's storm exceeded expectations and dropped a full 18" of new snow, I took a few runs on...

For only the second time in my 14 ski seasons living in Utah, Alta opened late this year, by a week and a half. We were by and large skiing manmade groomers, Mambo/Meadow to Corkscrew/Schuss Gully/Nina's Curve off of Collins, and Devil's Elbow off of Sugarloaf. We were surprised to see them...

Well, I apparently can't read a calendar because the second installment of our trip last week through southern UT/northern AZ/southern NV auto-published on YouTube last night 5 days ahead of schedule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_010_ztsCc Anyhoo, cat's out of the bag now. :oops: In...

Patricia and I just got back last night from a week long trip through southern Utah, northern Arizona and southern Nevada. Part 1 of our trip is now on my new Grand Adventure YouTube channel in beautiful 4K. Upcoming episodes will cover the rest of the trip, including Flagstaff, Sedona, the...

This weekend's camping marked another great year of the San Rafael Swell Mountain Bike Festival with the MECCA Mt. Bike Club of Emery County, Utah. This is the first video for Grand Adventure, a new YouTube channel that I'm launching that will feature RV-centric outdoor travel, activities, gear...

I guess with advisories like this, it's time to start a new thread! https://inws.ncep.noaa.gov/a/a.php?i=16097482" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;