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EOY Trip Report
First, thanks for the suggestions from folks for my kids (all
boarders)spring break trip to UT two weeks ago. What a difference a year makes. Last year at the same time most all of the PC resorts had closed due to lack of snow and even the BC and LC resorts were only partially open. We arrived on 4/8 with snow falling in the mountains. Started off with first Chair at Brighton (18" that night and parking lot almost empty) off Snake Creek Express and headed down a groomer we like, Lone Star, to find that it was ungroomed and almost untouched - Whoohooo! . Tracked a few more runs on it and then headed down to Great Western and just kept dropping off the ridge into anything with trees that was still not too tracked out. Incredible conditions and lack of crowds let us stay on that and work down the ridge until a late lunch. Finished the day with a few runs off the Milly quad. My kds (13 and 11) were feeling it by then and we decided to not try and overdo too much for the first day. Second day we headed over to Powder Mountain. They had about 8-10" of fresh. Most all of the right side of the Sunrise lift area was untouched. Ran off about 5 runs, but my boys were slobbering over seeing the people doing Webber Bowl from the Lightning Ridge Cat. Decided it was our last rip of the year so I bought two runs a piece ($10 a pop) for the Cat - cheap price for getting the Father of the Year award. Boys loved it - dropped both runs down Webber Bowl. Great experience for the boys. Spend the rest of the day lapping off of Timberline and Paradise through the trees. Amazed at what you could still find in the trees towards the end of the day. Last day - off to Snowbird . No fresh snow and pretty tracked up but I hadn't been since they installed the tunnel off of Peruvian chair. Pretty cool. Warmed up with Chips Run (slightly icy) then dropped across to pick up Gadzoom and spent time off Gad 2. Baby Thunder was closed but we didn't head over as far to that side as we could but Tiger Tail area was fun. Played around that area until lunch at Mid Gad. Spent the afternoon in Mineral Basin. Again - tracked but still not too bumped out. Would love to try it on a powder daywith them. Finished the day down Primrose Path as that side had warmed significantly. Overall as good as almost any midwinter trip I could hope for with fresh snow. Amazing for this late in the year and much better than last year. Back to the midwest - waxed and stored the boards til next year. Clay tennis courts have all opened up back home - time to pick up my sticks and head to the courts. Have a great summer |
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