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Escaping the Salt Lake Wasatch on a higher danger and traffic day for the Ogden Wasatch was a good plan this day. With the lower danger and a full parking lot at Cutler Ridge we went to Rodeo Ridge and found almost no other skiers, great snow, and a ridge summit where we could finally […]
I don’t think I’ve gotten a true workday dawn patrol in this year and finally got one in with Charlie and Patrick in Charlie’s favorite quick hit zone Japanese Trees. Great snow, just a touch of crust under the 12″ of new. Lots of fun making fun of Charlie’s heavy skis :-).
One of the tricky parts of skiing in the Wasatch now is getting up at dawn patrol hours for weekend skiing. Generally if you want to not hit traffic going up the canyon, find a parking spot at trailheads, and not have a skied up backcountry you need to be up early. Sure there can […]
Given the lack of posts at the end of 2024, I’ll try sharing a bit more. This winter has been off to a slow start. Prior to today I’d gotten only a couple laps up Porter Fork Rd., which barely qualifies. To day I got out. Snow was quite good! The Xmas-NY’s storms really filled […]
After a drought for a good portion of December and the beginning of January a huge storm cycle brought lots of new snow and water weight to the snowpack. This unfortunately ramped up a persistent weak layer in the snowpack so skiing lower angle and more treed slopes has been the wise choice. On Saturday […]