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Ski

2025-03-08 Rodeo Ridge

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 […]

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Ski

2025-03-07 Japanese Trees Dawn Patrol

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 :-).

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Ski

2025-02-22 Greens Basin

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 […]

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Ski

2024-03-31 Old Blue Mtn Ski Resort

Easter Sunday we saw the weather would be very windy in the La Sals. I’m not sure of much short approach and protected skiing there so we decided to drive south to Monticello and ski in the Abajos. Since we only had the morning to ski and the conditions were forecast also be windy we […]

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Climbing

2024-03-01 thru 10 Canada Ice Climbing

The ’23–’24 ice season has been a strange one. I got started in Bozeman the week of the ice fest. I stayed at Case’s place and we got some good days in, but the week was all over the place with temperatures—normal to unseasonably warm, to cold. After returning to Utah I assumed more days […]