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2025-05-25 Rifle Canyon Run

Over the Memorial Day weekend we headed to Rifle Canyon which we’d heard much about, but hadn’t visited. The Stecks and some other friends were headed there. Heading east through Vernal is a nice drive and a little nicer than just I-15 and I-80 which are pretty much the only routes we typically take. The […]

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2025-04-12 Deseret Peak and W Twin Couloir

Wow so I’ve been way behind on posting photos. I was moving photos from my camera card to Lightroom and realized I’m quite a few months back. As such the next batch of posts over the coming days will be short. While the snow year turned out just OK this year, even an OK year […]

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2025-03-08 Rodeo Ridge

Escaping the Salt Lake Wasatch on a higher danger and traffic day for the Ogden Wasatch was a good plan this day. With the lower danger and a full parking lot at Cutler Ridge we went to Rodeo Ridge and found almost no other skiers, great snow, and a ridge summit where we could finally […]

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2025-03-07 Japanese Trees Dawn Patrol

I don’t think I’ve gotten a true workday dawn patrol in this year and finally got one in with Charlie and Patrick in Charlie’s favorite quick hit zone Japanese Trees. Great snow, just a touch of crust under the 12″ of new. Lots of fun making fun of Charlie’s heavy skis :-).

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2025-02-22 Greens Basin

One of the tricky parts of skiing in the Wasatch now is getting up at dawn patrol hours for weekend skiing. Generally if you want to not hit traffic going up the canyon, find a parking spot at trailheads, and not have a skied up backcountry you need to be up early. Sure there can […]