The Powderkeg may have come and gone, but the powder still remains. This week is Spring Break. I thought it would be easy to find ski partners for a tour this morning from 6 (I was even going to let them sleep in!) to noon before I had to be to work. It turns out that it was not that easy. CJ and Jer showed interest. Jer came through, as usual, but CJ bailed on us once again. I am not sure what his story was, but he missed one helluva day. Jer and I left my house at 6 am. We drove up to the upper
Solitude parking lot then crossed the street and began skinning toward the Park City Ridgeline. The idea was to ski West Monitor and possibly South Monitor or McDonald's. We figured this would still be good with the lack of traffic back to this area and the amazing skiing to be had back there. The approach is a bit longer than our standard tours which is why we don't
ski this more often. We arrived at the summit above West Monitor and gazed down into a beautiful open bowl. We took our first line straight down the middle with good results. The snow was great. We did hit a crust underneath every once in a while, but that just kept us on our toes. We skinned up and found that more west facing slopes had the best snow. We debated between
McDonald's or the more west facing side of West Monitor. We decided against McDonald's since it is a much shorter line and there were many turns in it already from the past couple of days. Our second line down West Monitor was epic. The snow was deep. We did not hit the crust. Our turns were dialed. I was so stoked. We skinned back
up to the top and then decided to ski Will's Hill back out. I was a little mistaken on the entrance to Will's Hill, but it worked to our benefit today. We skied though perfectly spaced trees in perfectly deep snow. I was expecting our south facing line to be a bit of punishment after getting such good lines on the north stuff, but it was just as good as the others! We skied all the way down because it was just too good to give up. Finally, we found a track that was headed back up canyon and we followed it. It took some traversing skills, but we eventually made it back to our original skintrack and thus back to the car. Both Jer and I were out on Asylums today and we were very happy about that. It is always fun to be out on new gear, and today we found the right conditions for it. I hope
all of you had an equally great Tuesday morning. On Ski.
The Powderkeg may have come and gone, but the powder still remains. This week is Spring Break. I thought it would be easy to find ski partners for a tour this morning from 6 (I was even going to let them sleep in!) to noon before I had to be to work. It turns out that it was not that easy. CJ and Jer showed interest. Jer came through, as usual, but CJ bailed on us once again. I am not sure what his story was, but he missed one helluva day. Jer and I left my house at 6 am. We drove up to the upper 
Solitude parking lot then crossed the street and began skinning toward the Park City Ridgeline. The idea was to ski West Monitor and possibly South Monitor or McDonald's. We figured this would still be good with the lack of traffic back to this area and the amazing skiing to be had back there. The approach is a bit longer than our standard tours which is why we don't 
ski this more often. We arrived at the summit above West Monitor and gazed down into a beautiful open bowl. We took our first line straight down the middle with good results. The snow was great. We did hit a crust underneath every once in a while, but that just kept us on our toes. We skinned up and found that more west facing slopes had the best snow. We debated between 
McDonald's or the more west facing side of West Monitor. We decided against McDonald's since it is a much shorter line and there were many turns in it already from the past couple of days. Our second line down West Monitor was epic. The snow was deep. We did not hit the crust. Our turns were dialed. I was so stoked. We skinned back 
up to the top and then decided to ski Will's Hill back out. I was a little mistaken on the entrance to Will's Hill, but it worked to our benefit today. We skied though perfectly spaced trees in perfectly deep snow. I was expecting our south facing line to be a bit of punishment after getting such good lines on the north stuff, but it was just as good as the others! We skied all the way down because it was just too good to give up. Finally, we found a track that was headed back up canyon and we followed it. It took some traversing skills, but we eventually made it back to our original skintrack and thus back to the car. Both Jer and I were out on Asylums today and we were very happy about that. It is always fun to be out on new gear, and today we found the right conditions for it. I hope all of you had an equally great Tuesday morning. On Ski.
If it meant that this blog would stop I would totally wish for this wicked season to end.
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