Did you read that before you hit send? Not the crowds yet people were hiking up from Strawberry, yeah, ok.
Snowbird had totally no crowds today, the people hiking from Zoom to Wilbere were doing it purely for exercise, all about the cardio bro.
To counterpoint my salty mad my hope for a crowd free pow filled season has been dashed, here’s a pic of my buddy Mike from today.
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Skiing pow: check
Mask: check
Smile under there: check
it was crowded as shit but you have to find the right lifts at the right times. place ebbs and flows, mate. strawberry is a 'terrain trap' of humans. no other way out while ohter lifts are walk on
and by not the crowds i mean it's not the shit show of the cottonwoods, the road, the parking the powder panic, etc, etc.
they should go to a golfy country club keep the po riff raff out model :rolleyes:
but still allow a few FREE skiers for soul
glad my solisoul didnt git crushed in lines like that
but no we didnt fomo much
aside from the entitled 2 wheel drive dipshit extra doobie rollin hour waitin for the po po to escort your sad asses down
dont think it was quite 2 feet of pow but it did pretty much snow all day up there
sheldon made friends
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sho didnt suck
shit was
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no shitshow this time around, an hour up and 45 min down and the 11 yr old and i expected double that.
was thinking of heading to west bowl after a lap in meadows but the super floaty turns and face shots all the way down changed my mind. just lapped the shit out of that area. snow came in heavy, right side up and bonded well. surprisingly, no instabilities noted at all but was not on anything steep. great day to be out. go get it.
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NICE!!!
More good pow in Verns and hippie hill
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This idea popped in my head but can you imagine resort parking lot numbers of people in the backcountry?
Bluebird morning today and not too crowded. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...592ecdbf70.jpg
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damn. vibes to the folks injured! two cars over the steep edge at the s-curve this afternoon.
Seemed like the cold air took the moisture out of the snow overnight. S and N both skiied $$$ this AM
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LOL of the day was wildcat lot full at 815. Took about an hour up, slow snake from swamp lot. Big looked equally as bad/worse driving by at 730https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...48ff3e7319.jpg
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I was going up with the 7 year old around 1:45 and ran into a pause in traffic. After the first traffic update from the twitter alerts, I turned around and took the family sledding. Prayers for the two cars in the accident.
We were headed up for the afternoon and hit stopped traffic just around the corner, 100 yards below the scene at most. Waited a little while to make sure I wouldn't be impeding any emergency vehicles coming up then bailed.
eta: Brighton parking lot cam looking brutal at 6 pm
Left Soli parking lot at 2:45, still sitting at 6:20. We started moving around 530ish and making good distance. I'm assuming the victims were transported hours ago but UDOT decided the 2 totaled vehicles need to be extracted right NOW so a few thousand cars waiting again. Why the hell dont they release the pressure valve of the thousand+ cars then extract the 2 totaled vehicles later?
heeeyyyyy red snake neighbor. this is awful, my goodness.
thank god the skiing didn't suck today. managed to do 10k with benneke10 up at George's. plenty of freshies and a kick ass skin track made for a fantastic day
now if only I had food or water in my car
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Nice to get out and stretch the legs today. It's been a while. Spuces main lot was full at 7:30 but the lot in the campground still had space. Lots of folks out in Mill D North. Snow was dense and a bit of work at lower angles but the leg day was appreciated. Not sure that the last run on our circuit off Tom's hill was worth it after getting stuck on the road at 2:30 just after the accident at the S-curves. Just got through in the first release at 5. Looks like it's been closed again for the last hour so lots of folks stuck up there. The two vehicles went off above and just around the corner from the S-curves where the road is narrow with no guard rail and about 100 vert? down to the creek.
We were next to this sign for a while:
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Tom's with zipper lines developing
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And sorry you guys are still stuck. We had the same thought about leaving the vehicles until after the exodus. Water quality may be the priority.
Stay warm and don't run out of gas!
Wingman view of the crash.
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I can't decide if I'm bummed that I blew my LCL or psyched that I'm not blowing a gasket sitting in the car with no food or beer...
The last time I was stuck in BCC Ms Boissal almost got in a fight with people who were passing in the left lane (and immediately getting stuck against a cop and a tow truck), preventing any hope of emergency vehicles ever going up the canyon. She was leaning across me and halfway out my window shouting at people that she was going to murder them. Lack of food does terrible things to her.
Edit: damn that video is hard to watch. Driving up there in a Subi all pumped to go ski and some coal-rolling asshat plows you off the road and into the creek. Apparently 3 trauma-1 activations at IMC with 2 being very serious.
Checked out the Nordic Express today. It is awesome to see a new option for riding around here. 4/5 Ogdens. Will reserve 5/5 Ogdens for when they build a lift to the top