tseeb
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Lonnie and I started with Wilbere not much after 9. Snowbird reported 12” new, but most of that fell during previous very snowy and somewhat frustrating day when there was 15” new. I found some deep powder on every run. Lonnie and I caught rope drop into Middle Cirque which had been open on Wed, but was mostly filled in. I started in the 2nd chute from skiers right, skied some of the spine between it and 1st chute where I ended up. Lonnie and I next did three laps on Peruvian where we took highest traverse lookers left (Zen sign) each time. This was on 2nd lift ride. There is line of skiers just to left of center on High Baldy.
Twice we skied to the mid-Baldy traverse, then catching some untracked on the way, skied into Blackjack area finding a lot of lightly tracked. Once we cut over under the Tram and hit Mach Schnell higher than Tony Crocker thought was possible. Lonnie broke a pole in trees in Blackjack so he returned to car near Iron Blossom for a replacement about when I heard Mineral had opened. I took a lap on Wilbere where we start nearly all days from Iron Blosam. It’s also where Lonnie and I took a mid-morning lap (2 lift rides) after skiing some of Mach Schnell when Peruvian line was very long. By the time Lonnie returned and we rode Wilbere again, then skied some cutup powder in trees on way to Peruvian, line there had gone down. View of Mt. Superior from Wilbere chair run.
There were tracks on it. Next picture is rocky chute under Baldy chair.
There was still a short line to get into tunnel with employee managing spacing between riders. We went left out of the tunnel and had some steep untracked, then took a lap on Baldy chair with John Webb before exiting to Alta next time up. We skied tracked, but still deep and fun Backside. I lost a ski getting lightly tracked snow in some steep little trees. I was yelling for John to cut over and help me look when two guys about 200 yards downhill said they had it. It must have been good karma from helping lady find ski (that I did in about a minute) at bottom of Greeley on previous day, as I thought my ski was uphill.
We rode Collins and skied to Watson shelter where Lonnie bought three $3 Alta stickers to close flap he opened on his jacket when getting past snowboarder down on track he caught tree. I re-filled my water bottle, re-hydrated and ate a few salted nuts on chair in sun outside. I wanted to use Wildcat to return to Snowbird, but guys I was ‘leading’ wanted to return from the top of Sugarloaf which we did after skiing ropeline next to Extrovert. The line had gone down on Mineral King and we loaded it about 3:30. We could see skiers still going to and skiing Bookends which I decided I would try to get to early the next day. From top, we skied Road to Provo and Rasta Chutes and found a little untracked. We missed close of Little Cloud by a minute or two so I dropped my ‘followers’ and boogied down Black Forest to Gad 2. I skied some lines in and below STH that were hairier than I should have alone and at 4 PM so I skied edge of Bassackward to past Wilbere and to our bridge back to Iron Blosam. I quit at 4:15 with 27.6K vertical, almost twice what I had on previous day.
Line for Mineral and most of the line for Baldy at 1:24. And link to video of Mineral rope-drop posted on Facebook by admin.
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There was still a short line to get into tunnel with employee managing spacing between riders. We went left out of the tunnel and had some steep untracked, then took a lap on Baldy chair with John Webb before exiting to Alta next time up. We skied tracked, but still deep and fun Backside. I lost a ski getting lightly tracked snow in some steep little trees. I was yelling for John to cut over and help me look when two guys about 200 yards downhill said they had it. It must have been good karma from helping lady find ski (that I did in about a minute) at bottom of Greeley on previous day, as I thought my ski was uphill.
We rode Collins and skied to Watson shelter where Lonnie bought three $3 Alta stickers to close flap he opened on his jacket when getting past snowboarder down on track he caught tree. I re-filled my water bottle, re-hydrated and ate a few salted nuts on chair in sun outside. I wanted to use Wildcat to return to Snowbird, but guys I was ‘leading’ wanted to return from the top of Sugarloaf which we did after skiing ropeline next to Extrovert. The line had gone down on Mineral King and we loaded it about 3:30. We could see skiers still going to and skiing Bookends which I decided I would try to get to early the next day. From top, we skied Road to Provo and Rasta Chutes and found a little untracked. We missed close of Little Cloud by a minute or two so I dropped my ‘followers’ and boogied down Black Forest to Gad 2. I skied some lines in and below STH that were hairier than I should have alone and at 4 PM so I skied edge of Bassackward to past Wilbere and to our bridge back to Iron Blosam. I quit at 4:15 with 27.6K vertical, almost twice what I had on previous day.
Line for Mineral and most of the line for Baldy at 1:24. And link to video of Mineral rope-drop posted on Facebook by admin.

[POV VIDEO] Insane Scenes When Rope Dropped on Mineral Basin at Snowbird, UT - SnowBrains
Following the storm that dumped over two FEET of snow in 48-hours, Snowbird patrol dropped the rope on Mineral Basin yesterday...

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