andyzee
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Weather: Bluebird Skys, temps from 8-14 degrees.
Conditions: Groomed with 18 inches of powder on top and all powder.
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Well getting boring her in Utah, yesterday for the first time we revisited a mountain. When asking V were she want to go, she didn't hesitate, she said Powder Mountain and cat skiing. We got to powder mountain after an 18" snow fall and the mountain lived up to it's name. Powder could be found all over the place. I went to purchase our lift tickets and tickets for the snow cat and I was informed that the snow cat was not yet running. No biggie, the last time we were here it didn't start running until about 11. In the meantime we decided to do a few laps on Boot Hill. Boot Hill is a black diamond run that's all powder, not too steep or long, perhaps 700 veritical. The route to Boot Hill takes you right past the cat loading zone. As a result, we did this most of the morning. No complaints, it's a fun run with deep powder. This is the run where I finally learned how to use the powder skis, kind of
By about 11:45 I asked about the cat and was told it wouldn't be running that day Real sin, all this fresh pow, great weather and no cat to take us up to the goods
Since the cat wouldn't be running we decided to check out other sections of the mountain. On this day we were true powder hounds, doing nothing but searching for fresh pow. No problem finding it here, we worked our way over to the new high speed quad they have and were a bit dissappointed to find that most of the terrain it serviced was greens and blues. We immediately worked our way over to another lift that serviced more challenging terrain. This was a blast fresh pow for about 1500 vertical. After that we worked our way back to the HSQ and went into Powder Country.
Powder Country is a bit odd, it's inbound, yet it is a total back country skiing, all trees and powder for at least 1500 veritical. Here we had a pretty good time, unfortunetly we did have to play it safe and follow other tracks, you do not want to make a wrong turn in this area! Eventually, you end up on the road leading up to the main lodges. Powder Mountain has a shuttle that pick skiers up along this road and takes them back to the lodges. After Powder Country, we were pretty beat and decided to go back to the area we started in, which included Boot Hill. Nice thing about Powder Mountain, it doesn't get tracked as quick as other places, Boot Hill was almost as good at the end of the day as it was at the beginning. We did a few laps here and then called it a day at about 3:30.
Today, it's going to be Solitude until about 2. Then a quick change and ride to the airport where we'll catch a 5:30 flight. That's the one nice thing about Utah. You can ski and still get to the airport in plenty of time for your flight. Well, here's some pics from yesterday:
Road to the main lodges and the base of Powder Country:
My powder queen on Boot Hill :
Me, finally getting the hang of the powder skis on Boot Hill:
Me again:
Conditions: Groomed with 18 inches of powder on top and all powder.
Report:
Well getting boring her in Utah, yesterday for the first time we revisited a mountain. When asking V were she want to go, she didn't hesitate, she said Powder Mountain and cat skiing. We got to powder mountain after an 18" snow fall and the mountain lived up to it's name. Powder could be found all over the place. I went to purchase our lift tickets and tickets for the snow cat and I was informed that the snow cat was not yet running. No biggie, the last time we were here it didn't start running until about 11. In the meantime we decided to do a few laps on Boot Hill. Boot Hill is a black diamond run that's all powder, not too steep or long, perhaps 700 veritical. The route to Boot Hill takes you right past the cat loading zone. As a result, we did this most of the morning. No complaints, it's a fun run with deep powder. This is the run where I finally learned how to use the powder skis, kind of
By about 11:45 I asked about the cat and was told it wouldn't be running that day Real sin, all this fresh pow, great weather and no cat to take us up to the goods Since the cat wouldn't be running we decided to check out other sections of the mountain. On this day we were true powder hounds, doing nothing but searching for fresh pow. No problem finding it here, we worked our way over to the new high speed quad they have and were a bit dissappointed to find that most of the terrain it serviced was greens and blues. We immediately worked our way over to another lift that serviced more challenging terrain. This was a blast fresh pow for about 1500 vertical. After that we worked our way back to the HSQ and went into Powder Country.
Powder Country is a bit odd, it's inbound, yet it is a total back country skiing, all trees and powder for at least 1500 veritical. Here we had a pretty good time, unfortunetly we did have to play it safe and follow other tracks, you do not want to make a wrong turn in this area! Eventually, you end up on the road leading up to the main lodges. Powder Mountain has a shuttle that pick skiers up along this road and takes them back to the lodges. After Powder Country, we were pretty beat and decided to go back to the area we started in, which included Boot Hill. Nice thing about Powder Mountain, it doesn't get tracked as quick as other places, Boot Hill was almost as good at the end of the day as it was at the beginning. We did a few laps here and then called it a day at about 3:30.
Today, it's going to be Solitude until about 2. Then a quick change and ride to the airport where we'll catch a 5:30 flight. That's the one nice thing about Utah. You can ski and still get to the airport in plenty of time for your flight. Well, here's some pics from yesterday:
Road to the main lodges and the base of Powder Country:
My powder queen on Boot Hill :
Me, finally getting the hang of the powder skis on Boot Hill:
Me again:
