I just got back from a dose of winter that has been missing from the past three weeks. I was starting to actually say to myself and others that I was over winter and that I no longer needed to ski. What a crock!
I had a long night on Wednesday thrashing around the Uintas hunting for snow to ski, finding only a bunch of mank that once resembled skiable snow, so Thursday morning found me unable to get out of bed and sore from an encounter with a tree. But a call from Derek telling my that I had missed out and the remote opportunity to slip up to Little Cottonwood Canyon from my work in Salt Lake City today was all I needed to put all my gear in my car as I was leaving home.
Meetings and work stuff kept me in Salt Lake all day and 5pm found me weaving through traffic, east bound on I-80 and contemplating if I should take the 215 exit and head south to LCC. It looked like it had been snowing all day and cold so I opted for the outing, arriving at the top of LCC by Alta as the storm was breaking. I changed into my ski gear and walked over to the snow covered summer road where I bumped into a good friend Jim Stefan and his friend Lorenz.
What followed was some great conversation, trail breaking, amazing sunset views, alpenglow snow and nearly 3000′ of fantastic powder skiing from 2 laps – one on Patsy Marley and one on Twin Lakes Pass (the peak to the north of the pass). It was so good I’m going back for more tomorrow morning!
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