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Quick Spring Powder Day

April 9, 2017 This weekend we got a quick hitting dual cold front.  The second of which dropped 12-18″ of right-side up blower powder.  Hope you got out there this morning because the sun came out this afternoon and it’s gone now.   ” order_by=”imagedate” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

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2017 April Fools

April 1-2, 2017 Just a quick post to share some images from a recent ski/climbing trip to the desert.  Yup, the desert for climbing and skiing.  Outside Moab, UT are the La Sal Mountains, with many peaks topping 12,000′ they are even higher than the Wasatch outside our front door.  We gambled on the weather […]

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Return of Winter 2017

February 23 & 26, 2017 For almost two weeks in mid-February I was a bit worried that our stellar skiing winter had come to an end.  Luckily the warm weather seeing temperatures up to the high 50’s and 60’s in the valley, and rain up to 9,000′ came to an end last Tuesday/Wednesday.  Winter returned and […]

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Grizzly Gulch Skiing

January 14-15, 2017 Got a chance to get out skiing over the weekend with some pretty awesome conditions.  It stormed Wednesday-Friday and there wasn’t much wind for Saturday and Sunday.  This lead to the great conditions we found in the backcountry over the weekend.  Almost no wind at 10,000′, plenty of sun and fresh powder […]

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Skiing in December 2016 and Early January 2017

Various days Carly and I have been out skiing basically every weekend the last few weeks of December and the first couple of January.  The snow in the Wasatch has been fabulous this year.  While not every storm has been cold smoke, many of them have and they have been coming through between 5-7 days […]