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Wow, Empire is open?I was skiing there 1/11-13, and I wouldn't say it was garbage. It wasn't what I go out west to ski, but the snow was... there. We had some good runs. Skied the Empire bowl several times. My biggest gripe was that since half the mountain was closed, the trails skied crowded, even though most of lifts were running and so had minimal lift lines. And yeah, I don't go to UT to ski groomed blues. But the weather was very nice. (That's both a good and bad thing, of course.)
Back when December was at its worst, I was actually pushing my friends to move the ski days to 1/25-27. "It will be much better by then." Good God, good thing we stuck with our plan, because there's been no snow since before we got there last week, and that would make like 3 weeks without snow? And all the skiing in the meantime including MLK weekend scraping everything off? It's gonna be even worse.