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Posted in 2009-2010 Ski reports, Powder Days, Ski on Apr 6th, 2010
We arrived in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night, excited for four days of skiing at Park City Mountain Resort with the Murphy family. We woke up Thursday morning, threw on the ski boots and made a short walk over to the town ski lift for the ride up the hill. It ended up being [...]
Posted in 2009-2010 Ski reports, Powder Days, Ski on Jan 9th, 2010
We arrived in the Mad River Valley late on the 26th and were raring to kick off our vacation but were greeted with rain on Sunday morning. Shocker. We headed out with Gore-Tex and with full intentions of having a great time despite the weather. It was touch and go at first as the rain [...]
Posted in 2008-2009 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Feb 28th, 2009
As we took the long President’s Day weekend off from skiing to make a little trip to Florida, I was pretty convinced that we’d be missing out on stellar skiing because that’s normally how it works. Turns out the skiing was marginal while we were away, and we returned to what was unequivocally an epic [...]
Posted in 2008-2009 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Feb 3rd, 2009
Powder Day 1/31/2009, originally uploaded by jimschley. A big storm on Wednesday and Thursday dumped 21″ at Sugarbush followed by a surprise 8″ dump on Friday night had me itching to get on the mountain. The first storm left a deep, dense snowpack of dry snow. It was a substantial dumping that did a great [...]
Posted in 2008-2009 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Jan 14th, 2009
20090110-IMG_0990, originally uploaded by jmurphy67. A decent mid-week storm dropped some nice heavy and dense snow making a pretty serious improvement to the trail conditions by Saturday. There was still some ice lurking here and there, but the primary surface was a nice packed powder. The base depths increased enough that they were able to [...]
Posted in 2008-2009 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Jan 13th, 2009
I was able to take the day after New Year’s off from work so I could enjoy a full day of skiing. Unfortunately the primary trail surface on the mountain was pretty slick and less than edgeable in many places. The exception was Stein’s Run where they were blowing snow, and the cold, dry air [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 23rd, 2008
No sign of Spring yet! It dumped snow most of the day on Friday, and it had been snowing much of the second half of the week, eventually totaling around sixteen inches by the time it finally shut off, making way for sunshine. Friday was a great powder day, and the only challenge were the [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 6th, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Better than frozen moss, originally uploaded by jimschley. We wrapped up our Utah trip on Tuesday with a full morning of skiing before heading to the airport for the flight back [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 4th, 2008
Alta is for skiers! that’s the slogan of the Alta Ski Area, and it’s well known as a skier’s mecca (snowboarding is not allowed). We left our digs at the base of Snowbird and skied onto the Peruvian Quad chairlift, first thing Monday morning. From there, we took the tunnel and dropped into Mineral Basin [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 2nd, 2008
We woke up on Sunday morning to the sound of a howitzer firing 105mm shells against the side of the mountain for avalanche control. The forecast went from 2-4″ and later shifted to 4-8″. We ended up with 14″ at daybreak. I didn’t mind that they got it wrong. The skiing was phenomenal and it [...]
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