The Canyons 3/2/08

[drjeff]

Resort The Canyons

Date 3/2/08

Conditions 10-12" of Powder and intermitant sun/snow

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Okay, so I fly out of the East during a major week of dumpage and probably some of the best condtions in the East atleast since March of 2001(once again brought on by me being in Utah for a week ) As our 2nd flight from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City is getting ready to depart, the captain comes over the speaker and says that it's currently 54 degrees in Salt Lake City ;( BUT, by the time we get there in a little over and hour it's expected to be in the mid 30"s as a front is just about to go through! A short, but BUMPY plane ride later, were in SLC, the wind is blowing, the temp is dropping and it's raining hard! About 2/3rds of the way up Parley's Canyon on I-80 on the way to Park City, it starts snowing, and quickly it's not snowing but absolutely dumping!

Woke up Sunday moring to bluebird skies, light winds and 10 to 12" of fluff spread out all across the 3700+ acres of The Canyons! My wife and I quickly got our daughter dropped off at The Canyon Cats ski program and we were up the hill to the delightfull sounds of avalanche charges going off all over the resort!

I can't give a ROTD since from first run to when my legs turned to Jello around 3:30, I was getting untracked lines in over the boot top fluff all day. Trees, steeps, trails, bumps, fluff, fluff, fluff My wife and I spent most of the morning exploring a part of The Canyons that we never really had before, the Dreamcatcher lift at the far South end of the resort(basically 1 canyon over from Park City Mountain Resort. Great stuff off this lift. Basically 1500+ almost continous verts (small flat about 100 verts above the base of the lift) of just well cut right down the fall line trails and open aspen glades. Mmmm good.

After lunch, my wife and I started exploring some of our favorite areas of this mega resort. And every place we went was just loaded with more untracked and lightly cut up pow! I finished the day off with 5 successive runs off the Saddleback Express, which has open pine/aspen glades off the north side and Eastern tight aspen glades off the South Side. The trees off the North side which are called "The Pines" is probably the run that if you told me that it would be the only run I could ever ski again in my lifetime, I'd be happy with it, especially the way it skied today!

Two more days to come at The Canyons Monday and Tuesday, with some snow forcasted for Tuesday before I head to Deer Valley for Wednesday through Friday. I'll try and stop tommorrow and get some pics, but today was all about the pow!

[redalienx11]

the pines is such a good run. i skied snowbird today and man it was great. here's to utah !