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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 […]
With the record snow year we’ve had in Utah I’ve been psyched about doing some spring skiing. Deseret Peak, to the west of Salt Lake City, has a pair of couloirs that face north and are easy, as far as couloirs go. The trick is the road is closed about 4 miles from the true […]
Last weekend we met with Andreas and Kasi at a Trax station to head down to Provo for some skiing. The season thus far is quantitatively and qualitatively the best in 30 years. Utah is at the top of the pile for amount of snow this year with little variation. To top that, the persistent […]
Andreas, Kasi, Carly and I headed north to escape the holiday traffic of the Cottonwoods. It has been a bit of an amazing storm cycle here in Utah, though with more water content than our normal blower powder. Nonetheless, we found great snow on Cutler Ridge and few people. While not over the head deep […]
May 4, 2018 With the demise of my spring alpine climbing objective, Carly introduced the idea of skiing Mount Shasta. It is a relatively moderate climb and ski, but entails about 7300′ of ascent. This was a good swap since the total time involved is minimal. It is an 11 hour drive away and the […]