SNOWBIRD, UT — Today, I intended to explore a lot of new terrain (Great Scott, Dalton's Draw, Wilbere Bowl, S.T.H. and Gadzooks) and take a lot of pictures. Perhaps these two goals do not go well together because today was shit. I would've chosen a root canal over this type of ski day if I were given the choice this morning.
March 2006 Skiing Archive
March 24, 2006
A Tough Ski Day
March 21, 2006
Epic Mid-Week Powder Day
SNOWBIRD, UT — Snowbird got another foot of snow last night! With less than 5 percent water content, the snow was about as light as it gets. I really need some fatter skis to more fully take advantage of the ridiculous amounts of powder snow Snowbird gets!
March 15, 2006
An Unexpected Bluebird Powder Day
SNOWBIRD, UT — I knew we would get a lot of snow overnight, so I planned to wake up as early as possible and beat everybody to the mountain. I basically was successful, but not in the way one would think.
March 14, 2006
Hurricane Skiing
SNOWBIRD, UT — Atop Hidden Peak, the sky was perfectly clear and the wind was blowing with alarming force (gusting to 60+ mph). It's never good when you can "see" the wind. The southerly wind blew tails of snow off the lofty surrounding Wasatch peaks. I decided that this tram run (the first of the day) would probably be my last tram run for the day. After all, after my hard-charging ski day yesterday, I had initially decided to take it easy today, anyway.
March 13, 2006
I'm Back, Baby
SNOWBIRD, UT — All these powder days have spoiled me. Although today was a decent powder day, I can assure you that I've had better. While the fresh coat Snowbird received today would've felt like a lot to me a few months ago, today I was less than impressed. I think a lot of the snow depth reported for today actually fell yesterday (while the resort was still open), so the truly fresh layer was a bit too thin to call it a legitimate powder day.
March 12, 2006
Something Weird Happened Today...
SNOWBIRD, UT — ...My right foot didn't go numb while I skied. I had visited the bootfitter countless times in the last month to try and figure why my feet kept going numb. Unfortunately, I would make suggestions, but they would basically ignore those suggestions. The main point of my suggestions was that my right boot still wasn't wide enough for my foot. Finally, last week they listened. Now my right boot is even wider, a bit longer, and a million times more comfortable while I'm skiing. (The added width also has, so far, seemed to solve a couple other maladies I had noticed with that boot.)
March 5, 2006
March 5, 2006
SNOWBIRD, UT — After trying without success to get to the mountain yesterday to enjoy a bluebird powder day (it's a long story, and one that I, again, blame on the stupid UTA ski bus service), I anticipated skiing, at least, some powder snow conditions today. Those powder conditions, however, were nowhere to be found without hiking. If I were by myself, I would've hiked to the untracked powder of Boundary Bowl near the Gad 2 area, but today I skied with Brendan and he is diametrically opposed to hiking, much like I'm diametrically opposed to putting on my ski boots at the car. He puts up with putting his ski boots on in Snowbird Center, so I can put up with not hiking.
March 3, 2006
March 3, 2006
SNOWBIRD, UT — I arrived at Snowbird ready for anything. I wasn't sure what I wanted to ski today.