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Old March 14th 07, 09:50 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

Check the NYT Travel section from Sunday, March 11.

"A tour through perfect powder and rugged backcountry linking six
Wasatch Range resorts."

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/11...11Wasatch.html

The huge photo in the article was actually taken in Wyoming.

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Old March 15th 07, 12:49 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

Beloved Leader wrote:
Check the NYT Travel section from Sunday, March 11.

"A tour through perfect powder and rugged backcountry linking six
Wasatch Range resorts."

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/11...11Wasatch.html

The huge photo in the article was actually taken in Wyoming.


Really?? Looks like Superior to me,s

confused, and needing some Wyoming time,
-klaus

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Old March 15th 07, 07:57 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

Kurt Knisely wrote:
klaus wrote in news:eta55v$amc$1
@xmission.xmission.com:

Beloved Leader wrote:
Check the NYT Travel section from Sunday, March 11.

"A tour through perfect powder and rugged backcountry linking six
Wasatch Range resorts."

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/11...11Wasatch.html

The huge photo in the article was actually taken in Wyoming.


Really?? Looks like Superior to me,s


Peak right:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/camera/single/Alta.West.php

'Probably snowcat tracks just left of the pic as well.


Yah, Suicide Chute is pretty obvious. Unless they've moved Snowbird to
Wyoming, that's LCC.

Wyoming, Greatest Snowjob on Earth.

What's really funny is that Colorado used a picture of Superior in
their Olympic bid. Check out the story in the old black covered
Wasatch Tours book, Kelner and Hanscomb. Everybody seems to want to
claim that little bump in the hills.

-klaus

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Old March 21st 07, 06:53 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

klaus wrote:
Beloved Leader wrote:
The huge photo in the article was actually taken in Wyoming.


Really?? Looks like Superior to me,s

confused, and needing some Wyoming time,
-klaus


(Responding to everyone who wrote):

Whoops. The caption in the dead tree edition says: "At Grand Targhee
Resort in Wyoming, skiers and snowboarders can take snowcats to the
top of a private slope." The photo is credited to Todd Shepera.

As I have read here, people who have been to the depicted slope say
the identification is wrong. Maybe the picture's tagline has been
corrected online.

Sorry about that. Either way, it looks like a fun place to be.

Thanks to everyone who responded for the correct identification.

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Old March 24th 07, 03:11 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

klaus wrote:
Beloved Leader wrote:
The huge photo in the article was actually taken in Wyoming.


Really?? Looks like Superior to me,s

confused, and needing some Wyoming time,
-klaus


Vigorous denial, part two:

Oh, now I get it. The big, introductory picture in the online article
is not in Wyoming. In the dead tree edition, the Wyoming picture is
spread across two pages. Online, that Wyoming picture is a "click to
enlarge" picture, bigger than a thumbnail.

It's my fault for not checking to see that the online article was like
the dead tree one. Any way you cut it, there's probably more snow
there than in the mid-Atlantic, where we had a day in the 70s. I mean,
the temperature was in the 70s, not that we were wearing bellbottoms
and listening to disco. Not all of us, at least.

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Old March 25th 07, 01:42 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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Default Utah's Epic Ride - New York Times

Kurt Knisely wrote:

'Heard a patroller took a ride an broke his leg over by Evergreen. You see
it?

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5444397


Looked like "Ortovox". Chaco was right on it, It *did* bury some
inbounds terrain.... But they weren't sure for a while about
collateral damage.. All's well..

-klaus

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Old March 25th 07, 07:38 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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In article ,
klaus wrote:

Looked like "Ortovox". Chaco was right on it, It *did* bury some
inbounds terrain.... But they weren't sure for a while about
collateral damage.. All's well..


Problems inherent in a low snow year. I'm heading for the beach.
--
According to John Perry Barlow, "Jeff Davis is a truly gifted trouble-maker."

 




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