The Daily PowIt’s been dumping all week. Alta has recorded over 80” in the past 6 days, with 19” in the past 24 hours. It’s going to be an epic day. Well… maybe later on it will. With all this snow in a steep canyon, there’s no guarantee that highway 210 will open, let alone the Alta ski lifts. Today is a day that usually means “country club” skiing for those that spent the night in the Canyon. (That means that they have the resort all to themselves while the powder slaves in Sandy wait and wait and wait for the road to open.) But today, not even the folks in Alta will get their share. Alta is interlodged until at least Noon.
Is too much really never enough? When it comes to powder in Alta, too much can unfortunately shut you down. No matter though, when we finally do get out on the hill, you know it’s going to be good and deep. So keep praying for snow, but be sure to include a prayer or two for a stable snowpack.
So they did finally get the road open at around 12 and teh lifts open around 1. While teh skiing was great, they did not open up teh high traverse so it was very limited. The avalanche conditions were really scary so hopefully things settled down overnight and we can get out on the high t today.
As much as my loyalty lies with Alta and LCC, the next weekend when it’s piled up that much and there is night before interlodge…I’m heading North to Snowbasin or PowMow. Glad for all my pals that were up there, but personally I can’t handle that morning big dump weekend traffic.
“An Alta ski patrol worker was briefly buried during avalanche-control work at the resort Sunday morning.
About 9 a.m., he was helping with routine avalanche control when he was caught in a larger-than-expected slide near Greeley Bowl, said Alta General Manager Onno Wieringa.
He was buried with only a hand sticking out, but his fellow patrollers pulled him out within about two minutes. “