jimk
Well-known member
What's your best memory from last winter that's kept you psyched for skiing during the off-season? Thought this would be a good topic as the next ski season ain't far away now!
Usually for me it's something good that happened on my last ski day or nearly last ski day:
May 6, 2022 (two days before the end of my ski season). This is a view of the Mineral Basin lift line (1500' vertical) leading up to the Summit Restaurant at Snowbird, UT (elev 11,000').
![mineral lift line 6 may 2022.jpg mineral lift line 6 may 2022.jpg](https://forums.alpinezone.com/data/attachments/38/38546-bff52744a60ee81f5f8014507c13e375.jpg)
Doesn't look like much, but... For about two incredible hours this morning I had some of the best spring snow conditions of my life! I thought it was some form of magical corn snow, but a person I rode the chair with (a former Snowbird groomer driver) said, "no." It was too fresh, hadn't gone through enough freeze/thaw cycles to be corn. This part of the mtn had not been open/skied for five days and in the intervening time a couple of little 2" snows had taken place. What I skied this morning was basically soft supportable snow, about 2" of super carve-able velvet over a smooth supportable surface underneath. The entire wide expanse of Mineral Basin from edge to edge had this velvety smooth surface, untouched by human feet for 5 days. It was like the whole place had been groomed and covered with a couple inches of spring snow. It was about the easiest all the offpiste in the basin will ever ski! I made 7 or 8 runs underneath and around the liftline in this photo and since it was a non-powder Friday in May there weren't many people on the mtn. Mindless, carefree swoops through gullies, flying over shoulders, I felt like a human sports car. It was sooo good I was hyperventilating on some of the runs. After about 1045 AM it turned mostly to mush, but those two hours were a heck of a memory to carry me through the summer of 2022!
WHAT SORT OF SKI MEMORIES KEPT YOU FIRED UP THIS OFF-SEASON?
Usually for me it's something good that happened on my last ski day or nearly last ski day:
May 6, 2022 (two days before the end of my ski season). This is a view of the Mineral Basin lift line (1500' vertical) leading up to the Summit Restaurant at Snowbird, UT (elev 11,000').
![mineral lift line 6 may 2022.jpg mineral lift line 6 may 2022.jpg](https://forums.alpinezone.com/data/attachments/38/38546-bff52744a60ee81f5f8014507c13e375.jpg)
Doesn't look like much, but... For about two incredible hours this morning I had some of the best spring snow conditions of my life! I thought it was some form of magical corn snow, but a person I rode the chair with (a former Snowbird groomer driver) said, "no." It was too fresh, hadn't gone through enough freeze/thaw cycles to be corn. This part of the mtn had not been open/skied for five days and in the intervening time a couple of little 2" snows had taken place. What I skied this morning was basically soft supportable snow, about 2" of super carve-able velvet over a smooth supportable surface underneath. The entire wide expanse of Mineral Basin from edge to edge had this velvety smooth surface, untouched by human feet for 5 days. It was like the whole place had been groomed and covered with a couple inches of spring snow. It was about the easiest all the offpiste in the basin will ever ski! I made 7 or 8 runs underneath and around the liftline in this photo and since it was a non-powder Friday in May there weren't many people on the mtn. Mindless, carefree swoops through gullies, flying over shoulders, I felt like a human sports car. It was sooo good I was hyperventilating on some of the runs. After about 1045 AM it turned mostly to mush, but those two hours were a heck of a memory to carry me through the summer of 2022!
WHAT SORT OF SKI MEMORIES KEPT YOU FIRED UP THIS OFF-SEASON?