Nice shot of the ski bases. Note to self: pack the rock skis for the trip out next weekend.
Conditions greatly improved!
The small storm that was forecasted wasn't supposed to hit until after 11am this morning, but on the way up we encountered light rain till just before entry 1. Traffic backed up a bit just before where it goes to two lanes due to a vehicle off into the trees being winched out. Entry 1 was backed up to 210, they must've had a race going on today. We parked in the pond lot and it was lightly snowing.
We got there in time for second tram, there was only about 40 people on it. The morning was pretty quiet, we had runs to ourselves at times. We got to the top and found winter conditions had returned, a bit of a wind and a decent snowfall. We headed down Chips and found about an inch of fairly dense snow covering everything. The temps weren't too cold and even the snow under the new stuff was edgeable.
Even though they closed a few trails and went from 40 to 36 the place skied a lot better today than it has the last couple of weeks. It snowed at a fair clip the whole time we were there, I'm predicting this storm overproduces, which is a refreshing change from the pattern of, "Utah, where storms go to die." The crowds got there about 11, we skied till about 1 and walked onto the tram every time we rode it. Lift lines were minimal today, the hill wasn't crowded unless you encountered one of the pods of people. For some reason most of the crowds always seem to ride around together, if you time it right you can get in between the herds.
Tomorrow morning should be pretty good as well, it's still snowing/graupeling at my house here in West Jordan.
My skis have been taking a beating. Ski Utah likes to crow about the conditions but my skis would beg to differ.
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Nice to have a bit of snow at the base this morning.
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Visited a new shrine today, Fitz was a regular on the tram and passed a season ago.
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It was a bit softer and that allowed for faster speeds and actually leaving the snow surface.