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Old March 22nd 05, 04:50 AM
lal_truckee
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VtSkier wrote:

Are you home yet? If so, how was the trip? Noticed that the snow
was following you. Good for locals, but not good for you.


Yeah - had to leave town each time to allow the dumps an opportunity to
dump. Let's see - been to Jackson, moved to Utah, last report I think
was Alta?

OK. We tried Solitude - better than Alta, although still skiing
hardpack. Found a few soft spots in the Headwall Forest trees, just
enough to flavor a run with awkward recoveries, and some decent turns on
Black Bess in the shade at the head of Honeycomb. The groomed was much
better than Alta's equivalent, which was pretty much all that really
could be said.

Then we had an epiphany: if we were going to ski hardpack anyway, why
not go where they specialize in hardpack and grooming? And besides we'd
never been to Deer Valley! So that's what we did; and guess what - it's
everything we imagined. The grooming is way better than nearby resorts
and the slopes make our local Flatstar look positively precipitous. Also
somewhat surprising to me (I expected rich, well lessoned, and feathers
and furs dressed) the clientel was largely appropriately skilled for the
slopes and dressed for Texas.

But we had fun; saw something off to the left from a chair that the Map
called Daly Chutes and rated as double diamonds so I traversed over
there and found a good 200 feet of vertical nearly challenging enough to
slow down for.

The food was good; and the restaurants provided patrons with Wall Street
Journals to read with their soup.

Then we visited a friend in Park City for the evening and he inevitably
mentioned he had seen on the News feature the previous night that the
wildflowers were peaking in Death Valley; So off to Death Valley we go,
with a stop at Zion for some hiking and a stop in Vegas for some
sleeping. The flowers were spectacular, as promised. Worth the drive. No
snow, though. Hiked a bit, sightsaw, and slowly worked our way home up
the eastern Sierra.

Excellent road trip; and we have fresh snow to greet us upon our return
home.

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Old March 22nd 05, 04:59 AM
VtSkier
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lal_truckee wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Are you home yet? If so, how was the trip? Noticed that the snow
was following you. Good for locals, but not good for you.


Yeah - had to leave town each time to allow the dumps an opportunity to
dump. Let's see - been to Jackson, moved to Utah, last report I think
was Alta?

(snip)

Excellent road trip; and we have fresh snow to greet us upon our return
home.


Nice!!!
Also, glad to hear good things about Dear Valet. I
corresponded with a lady for a while back when I was
single. She liked the place. Uhm, she was from Texas.

One thing I heard about DV was that you could pretty
much find pow several days after the storm. The
patrons didn't know how to ski the stuff.

 




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