What an amazing year. To ski/ride in June at all is incredible, to find powder, albeit wet powder, is ridiculous.
I headed to Utah for the weekend. Plan was to hit up Snowbird on Saturday and then hike at Snowbasin on Sunday. I ended up only having a couple runs at Snowbird but they were all amazing. I did have to work for them though. The only lifts running are the tram, mineral basin, and little cloud. It snowed quite a bit last week (about 10 inches total) and all other areas of the resort were open but considered backcountry. I came prepared with avi gear and was ready to earn some June powder.
My first stop was the skier's left traverse off of Little Cloud:
Then I hiked up to the top of Mid Gad:
The top 1/3 of the Mid Gad area was terrific. The area has been closed for weeks so the base was smooth. There was about six inches of wet powder on top - it was really nice. As I got lower the snow turned very heavy.
Next I decided to hike Baldy with no real idea of what I'd do when I got to the top. View from the top of Baldy.
The ride back into Snowbird looked good but I had the itch to drop into Alta...so I did.
And it was good.
Another view, down lower.
The entire ride down to the base was great. Super smooth cream cheese, not too wet. It rode pretty fast actually. There were TONS of hikers at Alta...the parking lot had more cars then Snowbird!
Alta base.
Snowbasin up next...
I headed to Utah for the weekend. Plan was to hit up Snowbird on Saturday and then hike at Snowbasin on Sunday. I ended up only having a couple runs at Snowbird but they were all amazing. I did have to work for them though. The only lifts running are the tram, mineral basin, and little cloud. It snowed quite a bit last week (about 10 inches total) and all other areas of the resort were open but considered backcountry. I came prepared with avi gear and was ready to earn some June powder.
My first stop was the skier's left traverse off of Little Cloud:

Then I hiked up to the top of Mid Gad:


The top 1/3 of the Mid Gad area was terrific. The area has been closed for weeks so the base was smooth. There was about six inches of wet powder on top - it was really nice. As I got lower the snow turned very heavy.
Next I decided to hike Baldy with no real idea of what I'd do when I got to the top. View from the top of Baldy.

The ride back into Snowbird looked good but I had the itch to drop into Alta...so I did.

And it was good.

Another view, down lower.

The entire ride down to the base was great. Super smooth cream cheese, not too wet. It rode pretty fast actually. There were TONS of hikers at Alta...the parking lot had more cars then Snowbird!
Alta base.

Snowbasin up next...