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  1. E. Nigma

    Alta, UT opening weekend - 11/25-28/2021

    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...
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    Alta, UT 1/12/10

    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...
  3. E. Nigma

    Canyons Resort, UT

    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...
  4. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 4/9/08

    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...
  5. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 12/27/2006

    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...
  6. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 12/20/2006

    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...
  7. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 12/13/2006

    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...
  8. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 12/6/2006

    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...
  9. E. Nigma

    Solitude, UT 11/22/06

    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...
  10. E. Nigma

    Snowbird, UT 4/18/06

    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...
  11. E. Nigma

    Alta, UT 3/7/06

    E. Nigma rides again! It was a tough call this morning. The avalanche report said a foot or more in upper Big Cottonwood Canyon (read: Brighton/Solitude) and 8 inches in upper Little Cottonwood Canyon (read: Alta/Snowbird). I called Anon E. Mus, and he had only a full-day ticket to Solitude...
  12. E. Nigma

    Alta, UT 2/16/06

    How can a powder day be a disappointment? I'd shoveled a good foot of light, dry fluff out of the driveway, and thus expected a stellar day. What I got instead was some seriously worked wind crust atop a foot of blower such that you were actually skiing the ice bumps underneath. :? First run...
  13. E. Nigma

    Alta, UT 1/31/2006

    Another busted storm. Alta was reporting 6" of new as of 5 a.m., and there were probably a few inches more heavy, wet snow by the time the lifts started spinning at 9:15. It was probably a good thing that the snow was so heavy, for it prevented punching through to the base underneath. Liftlines...
  14. E. Nigma

    Snowbird, UT 1/19/2006

    Yeah, we're jaded around here. :roll: Apparently, 2" of new snow overnight isn't enough to bring most locals out of the woodwork. And that includes one Mr. Anon E. Mus, too, who called this morning to advise that it just wasn't worth skipping a few hours of work this morning. They all...
  15. E. Nigma

    Alta, UT 1/12/06

    Powder day work rules were enacted today, so I went to Alta for a few runs before going to work. A slightly disappointing 9" of new snow was reported at 5:30 a.m. with light snow still falling, so there were probably 10" or so on the ground when the Collins lift started loading the biggest line...
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