Today was a tale of two sessions. Our morning consisted of deep creamy snow and the storm still producing, with a little graupel mixed in. We started off with High…
Continue ReadingSnow was in the forecast for the day, a meager 2-4 inches. So we decided maybe the last few hours of the day would be the best. I think we…
Continue Reading2020 has been the strangest year in recent history. So why would a powder day be normal? It wasn’t. We hit the canyon road about 8:15am and the traffic was…
Continue ReadingDon’t worry, it wasn’t actually a country club day. But it sure did feel like that out on Road to Nowhere and terrain near Bombay Chute. The reason for this…
Continue ReadingAlta today ended their longest summer break from lift operations since its inception 83 years ago. This has been the strangest of years but Alta felt almost normal. People were…
Continue ReadingAs of Saturday noontime Alta had nothing but a dusting of snow on the highest peaks. Things were looking grim. Unless you were privy to the forecast. Winter arrived with…
Continue ReadingAlta, UT is well known for a lot of things, deep light fluffy powder snow is at the top of the list. People travel to Alta from all over the…
Continue ReadingLast week the snow almost reached the road at the base of Mt. Superior. When we arrived this morning that was no longer the case. About 300 vertical feet up…
Continue ReadingThis recent storm dropped about a foot and a half of snow. Not Utah blower but not any coastal cement this time either. It was super fast velvet right from…
Continue ReadingWe were expecting a trace to 2 inches last night out of this storm. When it began snowing moderately in the Salt Lake valley late in the evening we realized…
Continue ReadingIt snowed almost two feet out of this storm and Alta even went into an interlodge this morning. Wildcat and the High Traverse were firing early on and Baldy Shoulder…
Continue ReadingWe unfortunately missed the soft opening of the High Traverse yesterday at 3pm. It was still skiing good today though. West Rustler was smooth and getting tracked. Thirds had quite…
Continue ReadingSkies cleared today revealing a beautiful new mountain at Alta, filled in and very tasty looking. For the most part that’s all we got to do today was look. High…
Continue ReadingExpectations coming into today’s opener were medium to high. Medium for myself, high for Nate. It landed somewhere in between. Sometimes numbers can be deceiving. 54 inches storm total as…
Continue ReadingThis most recent storm really brought the goods. Yesterday we saw friends’ reports of storm skiing over-the-head blower pow so we couldn’t resist yet another preseason powder day. The skies…
Continue ReadingA small storm blew through leaving a couple of inches right before a colder and larger storm dropped a perfectly dense 14+ inches on Alta last night. The density of…
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