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Hooked up with Kingslug today at Alta. Ira was just coming off a grueling three day Avi Course so he was dogging it a bit. That was fine with me since I have only skied 8 days this season since returning from two months on the east coast to spend time with my daughter and my new grandson. I...

I enjoyed an amazing amount of POW at Alta today. It has been snowing since Tuesday evening, and is predicted to continue into Friday. Looks like we may hit 4 feet! A friend of mine who has been monitoring the storm called me this AM to ask if I would pick him up at the airport on Thursday...

Alta Wildcat parking lot this AM. I saw this lift employee clearing his car from the storms this week.

"Cold Smoke" Look here: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7902

March started out as if Spring were here in the Wasatch. But, since 3/22 we have had nearly 125" inches of fresh powder. This past week has been especially nice since we have had a succession of storms rolling in every couple of days. What has been really nice is that virtually all the snow...

Read the thread and enjoy the pictures. Alta was pure pleasure today. http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7563&p=41501#p41501

Got up to Alta a bit late (Had to snowblow our sidewalks, driveway, and garage apron before setting off for the trip up LCC.) and struck up a conversation in the packed Wildcat parking lot with a nice young man (to me 35 is young) from Turkey who had never skied Alta before. He was asking...

Ski day #20 had dawned cold and bright with only about a 2" dusting at my house up on the east bench of the valley, but 16 miles up the road the Snow Gods had smiled on Alta overnight. LCC road was covered with snow in most places, and when I hit Snowbird, it became clear the we had been blessed...

I last skied Alta on the Monday before Thanksgiving. While conditions were decent up to then, the lack of any snow last week, and company for Thanksgiving, I had decided it wasn't worth going for a few days. My second season out here, and I am getting so spoiled. In any case, I thought I...

Hi guys. After finding most of Snowbird rather crusty if not outright frozen early Saturday (I saw a snowboarder literally slide most of the way down Big Emma on his butt because he simple couldn't catch enough backside edge to get up on his feet), I delayed getting up there until around 11:00...

I was on my way to LCC this morning when AM 540 reported that there would be a delay opening the canyon road due to Avi control work. Traffic was backed up in both directions on Wasatch Blvd for a mile. So, I decided to take a ride up to Powder Mountan and pick up my "Powder Card." Since I...

I know a bunch of you are getting psyched to come to UT in about a month. So I thought I would take the liberty of sending you a link to a TR by Marc Guido (Admin on FTO). For a number of reasons, I got a late start that morning and decided not to make the drive to Snowbasin. I had a good day...

This is what our crew from FirstTracksOnline did today, Sunday. We roamed all over Alta finding steep and deep, and untracked lines to play in. http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6230 And this is what we did yesterday, Saturday...

After a two day break (lots to do in my "nonskiing" life) I decided to take a run up LCC to see what effect the last 48 hours of snowy weather (27" reported) had had on either Alta or Snowbird. Skies were sunny and no new snow was predicted until later in the day. My "retiree" start had me...

Hey Everybody, Check out this video of today's skiing at Alta UT. We were skiing the woods and trees because the open slopes were virtual "white-outs" due to snow coming down at a rate of about 3" - 4" per hour. We were a group of six who got connected through the FTO Ski Forum. I am in it...

The day dawned bright and sunny and the wife said: "Why don't you go skiing? Isn't that why we moved here?" I took care of a short "Honey Do List," tossed my gear into the car and headed out. I got a late ("retiree") start and decided to stop at Snowbird around 11:45. I got to park in what a...

Got up there around 10:30 AM today. Hey, that's what you do when you are retired, not on a schedule, and the "door to door" distance is 17.1 miles. The temperature was somewhere in the low 20's and my day started with periods of snow squalls. The parking lot was full so I ended up parking on...

I got my first chance to ski this season at the Canyons resort up near Park City UT. The lack of snow has really delayed the opening of the UT resorts. Despite some good storms and significant accumulations a few weeks ago, we had some unusually warm and DRYweather this past month that wiped...

I made it out to UT a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had either time nor the physical energy (still recovering from my surgery in Dec) to ski since I got here. But, I did make it to the "Alta Last Day BBQ." Check out the link...

Check out this Snow report for UT today: 9" of fresh for the New Year! Friday, January 05, 2007 POWDER ALERT! A healthy serving of fresh snow is waiting for skiers this morning at Snowbird. 9" of powder fell overnight and the NWS forecast is calling for an additional 2"-5" of snow today...