Y'all are lucky

[ss20]

WYSIWYG Forecast

The forecast for the next 10 days is pretty depressing and discouraging. I'll call it a WYSIWYG forecast (What You See Is What You Get). ...

wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com

Last night I checked the forecast and it was a slight chance of snow. Today I woke up and saw clouds and I thought hey that's a good sign I'll take just a dusting at this point. Very depressing driving up the canyon seeing blue sky, realizing the "clouds" were just thick thick smog.

 

[thetrailboss]

A bunch of ski areas in the Southern Rockies, Taos, Telluride, Crested Butte, etc. might get about 8" on Tues-Weds. Wolf Creek might get 18".

Are you going to chase that or stay in Utah?

 

[jimk]

Are you going to chase that or stay in Utah?

Nah, I'm going to work on getting a new pair of ski boots this week. Might try the guys at Sports Den. You have other suggestions? My gnarly, buniony, geezer feet are giving me some pain in my 9 year old Lange boots. I will probably buy something off the shelf for some minor tweaking. I'm looking for 70% comfort, 30% performance.

 

[thetrailboss]

I had great luck with the boot fitter at Level 9 on 3300 South last summer. She was awesome. I did not have any unusual foot issues but I opted to go ahead with the custom foot bed and man oh man these boots have been the best by far. Absolutely no discomfort during the break-in period.

 

[jaytrem]

Nice selfie @Kingslug20 , but I have to confess my eyes were drawn to this

He must work out.

 

[ss20]

I had great luck with the boot fitter at Level 9 on 3300 South last summer. She was awesome. I did not have any unusual foot issues but I opted to go ahead with the custom foot bed and man oh man these boots have been the best by far. Absolutely no discomfort during the break-in period.

Our director uses Level 9 for ski tunes. A lot of instructors here go to Park City for boots...I'll ask around tomorrow as I'm also in the market.

@jimk wherever you go let me know how inventory is. Everything is super tight around here. I'm trying to eek season 5 out of my current boots. By then they'll have about 220-230 days on them.

 

[jimmywilson69]

He must work out.

 

[SenorQuesadilla]

Snowbird on Saturday was solid conditions...especially compared to Park City yesterday which was total trash. Opensnow was predicting 8" for Lost Trail Thursday...now down to 4

 

[MidnightJester]

Currently VT should be doing short term advertising to the South West. Come to VT we have you covered. Not so deep bases but being refreshed as the winter storms grow seemingly better. I read the article and a .10" tenth of a inch of atmosphere water is ugly over 10 days. How are they for making & blowing snow with cold temps this late in the year there? and I would think that off trail on mountains with trees and glades with no refresh are as rough as there are here in VT??

 

[Kingslug20]

The dry cold air maintains the snow..i skied jh for the last 7 days..only slick stuff was south facing and some groomers..trees were great..
Totaly different from our snow..

 

[thetrailboss]

The dry cold air maintains the snow..i skied jh for the last 7 days..only slick stuff was south facing and some groomers..trees were great..
Totaly different from our snow..

What are their base depths? Just heard from someone who went to Big Sky recently and apparently it is pretty low there (and icy).

 

[Kingslug20]

70 top, around 50 base..enough to hide a lot of the rocks. I had no problem most of the time.

 

[jimmywilson69]

Just heard from someone who went to Big Sky recently and apparently it is pretty low there (and icy).

just heard from a local friend who was at Big Sky and said while depths were low, he thought conditions were good. East coast vs Utah perspective

 

[Kingslug20]

Considering JH got over 250 inches so far..yeah..a bit more than we get round these parts.

 

[Kingslug20]

Big sky shiws only 90 inches so far..that may nit account for the foot they got this week..but its pretty damn low.

 

[jimmywilson69]

wow only 90"?!?!?!? that is incredibly low.

 

[Kingslug20]

Seems too low..going to snoop a little more..bored sitting here hoping my skis get delivered from the airport..

 

[Kingslug20]

Cant find anything..but that report also shows jh at 200..which is 60 inches off.
Bridger bowl shows 111 inches...about as much as Stowe has gotten.

 

[thetrailboss]

Big sky shiws only 90 inches so far..that may nit account for the foot they got this week..but its pretty damn low.

I thought they got some snow this week that we did not…

 

[Kingslug20]

Yup..site shows a foot...i would think they need several more