 Poster: A snowHead
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Writing this as a thank you to everyone on SH and Pugski who gave me tips while planning. Hopefully this will help someone else.
Day 0-1
Arrival to LA day, exhausted. Hassle. Went to Santa Monica for dinner and beer. Picked up the truck camper and drove to Mammoth.
Day 2-3
Sessioned Mammoth Mountain for two days in glorious sunshine, with quite a bit of wind. The wind loads the snow in certain points of the mountain which was very helpful. Later I was told this is something Mammoth is famous for, there's some mircoclimate thing going on here with the wind frequently loading certain lines. I rode all the main lines off chair 23 and the peak. Daves, Climax, Whipeout, Paranoid flats, Gravy chutes, China Bowl etc. Missed out on Avalanche chutes which looked fun, but time was a little too pressing. The groomers are well kept and empty. There are a lot of snowboarders here and I could see some nice 'hit'/'jib' runs forming as everyone followed the same line. Only did the back-bowl once, there are some juicy lines to be had from the top here, but the snow wasn't good enough. Wish I had more time, but that's the nature of roadtrips. Definitely a top class resort with plenty of variety to keep me entertained for a while and in different conditions, big thumbs up from me.
The town looks like something from an episode of Stranger Things just with snow, huge houses and condos and big trees. There's a local bus service that takes you around town. I was on my own and not used to camping so was more concerned about finding a spot to camp than hitting bars. Maybe next time.
I camped at Hilltop Hot Springs. WHAT A FIND! Spent the evening drinking beer in a natural hot tub with locals and tourists alike. Had a laugh, chatting about anything and everything, not to mention I was clean and warm! The following two mornings I woke up early (jetlag and cold!) to watch the sunrise while sat in the hot spring. When it hits -6 the truck camper gets pretty damn cold, will need to get creative.
Day 4
Did some laps of Mammoth mountain in the morning, the canyon base area is really nice both aesthetically and skiing wise, shame I didn't have more time to explore it. The snow was very hardpacked and with no wind, there was none of this famous windbuff today. I stuck to pistes and managed to string some nice long groomers together. Lots of carving, enjoying my new boots and carving friendly board.
At lunch I jumped in the truck and drove to June Mountain. What a drive. Coming into June you drive past June Lake which creeps up at you over a ridge. Quite a view, I've seen many lakes and many are stunning, but this is one of the few times heard myself saying 'Oh wow!' out loud.
Parked up in June, noticed how easy it was to park right in front of the lift, maybe 15m from the chair. The place looked empty about 2/3 of the main park full the second carpark empty. Scoffed a peanut butter sandwich and nearly chocked to death. Got this rickety lift up to the main base. It was like sitting on a 1960s carousel, very slow and requires help from the liftie to safely get on. I forgot my headphone cable so was forced to enjoy the peace of it all. Listening to the birds, with a gentle humming of the ski lift only to be interrupted by the occasional swishing rhythm of a skiiers turns, which reminded me of the waves splashing on a greek island holiday - this resort felt was like a nature retreat. There were 6 or so chairlifts and I'd done pretty much everything within a few hours. Couple of short steepish pitches but the rest you could string into lovely long cruisers. Corduroy at 3pm? Absolutely! It really was empty! I sessioned a sunny run called Gunsmoke with some hardboot snowboarders, taking it in unintended turns to lay down our best pencil lines while the others get the lift up admiring each others work. #TheJuneMountainCarveAppreciationSociety
June - great little hill, marketed as a family resort, I could imagine bringing toddlers here but it's too far for us Brits. For the rest, come for a day on a weekday out of holiday season. Don't expect much, enjoy the cultural experience and silence. Very special experience.
Thanks to a recommendation from someone on the US based Pugski forum, I dropped into June Lake Brewery for a pint before heading up to Reno to pick up my friend for the rest of the trip.....tbc
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I’ll be watching this with interest. Great report. I have many fantastic memories of skiing in this area.
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@Whitegold, – I have so many people asking for photos so it’s just easiest to check @snowcalling on instagram. I'll try to upload some but it's a PITA.
Spent around 10 days in Tahoe here’s a synopsis of the resorts.
Nothstar: Started off in Reno picking friend up, here we stayed in a casino (cheapish) to overcome his jeglag and stock up in Walmart the next day. Quick 45min dash to Northstar. Managed to get 3 laps in before close. It’s a smallish, trees based resort. Very mellow, best suited to weak intermediates or beginners. Trees could be fun here but meh, it was just a bit dull. Not much for us here, we spent another afternoon there and basically felt we’d done it all. Views are nice, but not the show stopper like Heavenly. If I were here on a holiday with my OH, I’d jump onto skis and do a day or two here no more.
Squaw: Didn’t do Alpine Meadows unfortunately, but it’s not really our thing especially when Squaw was begging for our attention. This place is a mecca. I could write for hours about the terrain and the people you meet on the chairlifts are just, well, ‘rad’. We lucked out with an unexpected 2” of snow and that covered the crust just enough to allow us to play a little, add a bit of windloading and we managed to do some quite interesting stuff. Granite Chief, Emigrant Chair (in partular Mainland Bowl), Siberia Exprss, KT-22, Red Dog and Squaw Creek (oh boy those trees have some steep lines). After only a few hours here we decided to come back for a proper dump and try some of the gnarly lines, which is why I am writing this as we drive back up from Kirkwood. 14-20” tomorrow morning another 3-5" in the afternoon, winds are high but hoping for afternoon session or full-day Friday.
Heavenly: unexpectedly nice. It’s cruisey, you can string some long runs together, dig in your edges and just go for it. Moguls were perfectly formed, if a little crusty and unpleasant at times. Trees and Motts Canyon looked fun too but the snow really wasn’t good enough to merrit exploring. The resort feels big thanks to the layout and various bases. Views are utterly gorgeous, with the lake on one side and the Nevada desert on the other. Also the apres here was the first time we actually felt like "ok, this is more like it." There’s post ski atmosphere here, something the other Tahoe resorts lacked. The town itself it quite spread out, but really you don’t need to go very far from the Stateline and worth noting is the clubs/bars are hopping over in Nevada. Great intermediates resort and could be more for advanced if snow permitted.
Kirkwood:
Someone on SH told me about the gullies here, and they are right. This place runs out in to loads of natural halfpipes of varying difficulty. The layout is just one long and steep ridge with an additional ‘backbowl’ which reminded me of Harmony Bowl in Whistler. Really there’s only 3 main chairs (+2 connector chairs) worth sessioning, but there are so many routes down. We got lucky with 2-3” of snow and a lot of wind. Interesting snow, it’s chalky and even only small amount the wind and weight of the snow meant it felt very nice without hitting the crust. Putting thought into route finding meant it was possible to avoid a lot of the crust. Oh and an empty resort (AGAIN), tried to hit the main routes (The Wall, Wagon Wheel Bowl, Palasides, Sentibel Bowl, The Wave, Thimble Peak Hike and One Man Chute) and couldn’t get right over to Reuter as it was shut and the traverse is annoying on a snowboard. Fresh lines with minimal hunting needed, that all day long for two days. Easy access and while the backbowl was shut we alternated between The Wall and Cornice Express lifts, spotting our lines while on the other and memorising the best chutes etc. Kirkwood is an advanced to expert only resort, expect to see locals doing some serious cliff drops....groomers are nice enough but not what you come for. Apres? The bar shut at 16:30 LOL! Few beers in the parking lot the best we got.
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@LittleBullet, cheers bruv, looking forward to more!
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If you want apres at Squaw - the Chammy or Cantina ( cantina can be pretty slack if the car park isn't busy).
Kirkwood have screwed the pooch by not having Bub's Pub open doing pitchers, pizza and beer. 7800 in the tower block ghetto is the go to spot cos at least staff are hanging there.
Plus Kirkwood is actually fine for beginners and intermediates. Timber Creek is perfect beginner terrain and cruising down the groomers on 4 on a sunny day is fine. But better not tell everyone and let them clutter up Ridge run at Heave.
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Glad you went to Mammoth. Most Americans who venture into Cal sadly avoid that phenomenal mountain as it is out of the way. Sorry you skipped Alpine. You truly missed out. It's vastly more than most realize. Lots of "hidden" reaches. Hopefully at some point in your life you'll spend two or three days there with good snow.
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Alpine Meadows: snuck a cheeky day here after so many recommendations both online and locally. Glad we did. One of the best rounded resorts in Tahoe. Has everything, mellow to gnarly if you seek it . Crowd is more family with strong skiing ability and very nice to chat to.The kids skiing chutes is impressive. Not the hardcore ski-bums of the 1970s you find in Squaw. It works here and the vibe is just all-round a winner. Sadly inbounds incident the day before reminded us if the dangers even in bounds. Day after dump we still found easy access inbounds and open fresh lines.
drive into alpine meadows
gorgeous view back to main bowl from Scotty's chair
 Drive in to alpine meadows
top of Lakeview chair.
Drive to Salt Lake City : went via highway 50 scenic route 10-11hour mission.
We drive truck slower at 60mph to try average up the mpg and avoid wind buffeting etc.
Overnight camp at hot springs. Unnerving drive along 5mile dirt track in pitch black to remote point on Google maps. Got there and woke up to this...pancakes, bacon, Syrup, coffee and hot tub anyone?
Snowbird, Utah
Steep. Nearly European. Snow is noticeably colder than California. Found fresh tracks by figure 8 bowl and gully. Pita transverse. Should have stuck to skiing. Rest of mountain snow was meh and/or baked. Wind swept and fast cirque traverse into steep chutes gave me mild 'exposure' nerves. Didn't like thought of slipping into icy and rockey chute. Nice resort, feels more like suburban kids playground rather than tourist resort. Wish London had this.
views
one of the better chutes off cirque traverse
figure 8 gully. Not to badly tracked a week after dump. Freshies just to sides.
view back to SLC
drive "home"
Hanging out in SLC. Found a cheap bar ($3 a pint / $8 a pitcher) with cool sports games. They let us park the van in their lot overnight and drink a few - fun place might go back.
shuffleboard! Aka minature 'table' curling
Got some looks from the neighbouring bank staff as they arrived to work this morning, guess it's not everyday two slightly hungover Brits brush their teeth in the parking lot.... Tonight quieter strategy.....church parking lot aka park and ride for another local ski resort (Brighton)...
TBC
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ooooh shuffleboard  )
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Loving this trip report - thank you
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Great creport, keep it coming.
You'll find Brighton totally different to Snowbird - fun for snowboarders. If you can nip out to Millie cliffs, and the Rock park off Wren Hollow. Also through the gate top of Great Western can be good. Just check conditions.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alpine Meadows is terrific. I had an Epic pass last year and Ikon this year so just discovering these resorts now... Squaw seems to have limited vertical up top (although plenty of stuff to maim yourself on) and has some lifts of questionable value. Alpine seems to be good everywhere!
Also of note in Utah is that if you want a drink stronger than beer (eg a glass of wine (!!)) there's a proper bar at the bottom of the Snowbird centre lodge thingy. Maybe even in a sort of basement? You'll probably need a passport for ID though because Utah 
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We virtually had most of Brighton to ourselves when we visited in 2015. The sun was up after a little snow the day before so was a perfect day. Can't remember there being any bars at allso I think we headed back to Park City. Keep us posted!
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You know it makes sense.
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| Gainz wrote: |
| We virtually had most of Brighton to ourselves when we visited in 2015. The sun was up after a little snow the day before so was a perfect day. Can't remember there being any bars at allso I think we headed back to Park City. Keep us posted! |
We've had it like that too in past years. Probably not so much now though.
Bar wise there - Molly Greens, excellent atmosphere, beers and food. Right on the slope too.
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Solitude & Brighton:
Turns out we weren't the only church campers. The others just waited for the evening service to finish before pulling in. We just rocked up and started cooking....oops
Grim weather in SLC but we knew fresh snow up top. Total around 5" with some wind loaded significantly deeper pockets. Better than everyone expected. Bus to Solitude from park and ride was easy. Not a soul in resort. Fresh track laps on Powderhorn II, Honeycomb return and Apex express. Milk run, parachute, middle slope and 'here be dragons' kept us entertained until Summit Chair opened. Once opened went to headwall trees. Steep, deep....empty.
Afternoon in Brighton (linked by cat track) also empty. Mellower but has short steep pitches. Great trees for snowboarding. Millies express was a blast as suggested above. I also liked steeper section under top of Snake Creek chair. Night skiing meant lifts stayed open longer, helpful.
Hit Molly Greens bar at 5pm. True locals bar, unchanged from 1950s. Got chatting to a local after he accidentally took a swig of my drink. Ended up trading use of our showers back home in London for parking on his driveway and use of his shower. Ski in - ski out ! Had a great night at the bar and hanging out with our new friend. Midnight pancakes and syrup are delicious.
Rode with locals, their fitness was a few notches higher but we held close. Runs of note: Pioneer ridge, out of bounds, very good. Evergreen chutes hike and over to Barret's Glade and Dead Tree. Fresh tracks, best powder of trip so far.
Photos lesser quality - sorry I was busy riding powder 
grim weather at park and ride
not bad!
powder powder powder. I think this was by Milk chutes. Not sure can't remember where I took it.
exploring solitude
home sweet home
hike to evergreen and beyond. Steep steps.
smoking hut along hike
Molly Greens. Best slopeside pub we've found so far. Thanks to the locals for the hospitality.
If you're in SLC these resorts are totally worth checking out. Small can be good too.
TBC
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Poster: A snowHead
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Keep enjoying 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Altitude gets all the flat landers. Doesn't matter how good of shape you are in! Safe travels...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bye bye Utah and another reason why wearing avy gear is a good idea
Park City:
Big. Reminds me of Whistler-Blackcomb.
Resort is split in two sides, Park City and Canyons - both offer distinctive feel. Groomers Park City offers ‘Autobahn’ style wide groomed blues and European reds, perfect for aggressive Euro-carving. Canyons seems maze of blues winding by vacation homes, dip in tunnels, under roads, fly over rollers etc. Both are great fun, at speed and with lots of jibbing. So much so my knees started to hurt on day 2. Getting older....
Juicier faces off McConkeys, Jupiter and Ninety-Nine Express. Liked McConkeys; specifically '50-50' chute a short bootpack from peak. Ski patrol was there first but she bottled it so I had the honours of riding the chalky chute. Jupiter, held cold snow well but we struggled to find killer line - maybe next time. Best snow/run we found was a 20min bootpack out of bounds from Nintey Nine express. Lovely open bowl, few tracks and good snow.
While risk was low, took cautious lines etc. , we felt like utter tools not having our avy kit with us and since vowed to wear it at all times just in case we find other low hanging fruit.
Snowbasin:
Took avy gear. First tracks morning. We spotted a guy waiting at Lone Peak gate and noticed Ski Patrol walking in same direction. Joined the queue. Got chatting to the local who noticed we also had all our avy gear and asked if we wanted to join him on some out-of-bounds (he had no buddies that day). Sense checked him and agreed.
We Brits broke the bootpack on Lone Pine for all the local snowboarders. A thrill to be one of the first down the spine chute yet utterly exhausting breaking trail while under pressure from the powderhounds hot on my heels.
Found showers for $2, free camping is easy here. Getting into the swing of crusty ski bum life.
Park city
hike off ninety nine
hike up Jupiter peak
hike off ninety nine
50-50 chute
Snowbasin
rewarding
heelside slash
opening gate
run out
leaving resort bound for Jackson Hole
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Hmm I've only ever been a few days at Park City in distinctly sub-optimal conditions (over a few trips) but I struggle with the WB analogue. My perception has always been of quite a lot of work for relatively short vert lines compared to WB with a resort that is spread very horizontally with little stacked on top of each other. (& that Colony place at Canyons is just plain weird - gawp at the rich folks houses while skiing flat groomers)
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@Bones, there're two sides of the 9990 ridge. You can go back into the resort, or drop off the backside towards Solitude.
Not sure which side of the ridge it happened on. Also, I don't recall it happen this year. Maybe a couple year back?
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@Dave of the Marmottes, not sure what you mean by WB. Agreed vert isn't great there, on a relative basis those runs are the best. 50-50 and main chute are about 3 and 8 good turns respectively. The hikes vs vert are acceptable imo. Yes the colony is bizarre. We ignored the rich houses, but did place a bet and found out how much plots are. Any takers?
@Bones, jeez. Thanks. Yes, was possibly our stupidest move of the trip. Neither of us are proud of it.
Agreed Jackson sucks don't come here. We did Corbet's this morning albeit both a sloppy bum side slip to flat drop-in. Sorry guys! It really is awfully big and intimidating, luckily the crowd wasn't there. On a snowboard the sloppy entry technique is all in your mind and totally doable. It's much harder on skis, we didn't envy them.
Few more laps now, and then beer o'clock! Appreciate everyone's responses and kind words.
Will report again with more "toilet reading" for you in about week and after Yellowstone and Big Sky.....
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I too, confess did 9990 without avi kit, on a day with avi risk at 2.
That was a few years back. Vowed never to do the same again.
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abc, 15th Dec - snowboarder heading for Dutch Draw.
We too did it without avi kit - its so easy for folks to hike up and out - and looks so appealing
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LittleBullet, Glad you are enjoying JH - they're having an excellent year so far - the town is a great place.
Got a m8 who lives there, so we try and get back every 2 or 3 years, would be rude not to stop in and say hi
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We went through every gate so I'm sure we done the 9990 but back to resort and unfortunately without avi gear. I'm getting wiser now so will be investing for next season. I think you can campare PC/Canyons with WB in a certain light. For me they're my fave 2 resorts in north America so far (still loads to go to though). I hope you stopped for some wings and brisket at the tombstone grill? Best mountain restaurant ever...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The Highs and Lows of travelling
Note: written on a phone.... sorry not edited probably ramble and too wordy.
Jackson Hole: spent 4 days here, we got lucky and arrived to 10" plus another 5" the next day (memory might be slightly off there). Rode Corbet's as a right of passage. I side slipped to flat drop-in. Was about 3meter drop. Frankly, the chute itself is easy and the thrill is literally a drop that's ultra intimidating (especially in front of a crowd).
Caspar and all the knuckles on the far right of the ski map are super fun. Snow was deep with sluff rolling large chunks of anything interesting. Snow was quite heavy. Alta chutes also of note. I thoroughly enjoyed them, many versions and options. The mountain is from top to bottom (bar last 200 yards) a good gradient and you can string along a decent steep slope top to bottom.
Our knees really hurt so we decided to take two days off. The US has a lot of moguls and you have to ride them to get to most juicy lines. Found the best hostel ever. $40 got us designer style living room and double bed each. Plus amazing private showers, New York warehouse decor which reminded me a bit of home (my OH likes that style). In fact, we got a bit homesick and spent an evening watching all of the Silent Witness episodes.
JH and the town are great places. It's got the whole cowboy feel, bars are fun and the terrain did push us to find drops and bold silly lines. Downside is twofold. One, the ultra hardcore I'm to ski bum cool to drop anything less than 30ft. Two, lots of rich retires. Would I come back? Yes.
Big Sky:
Oh SH's - it's been 14 years since I last had a pow day like today.
The resort itself is yet another purpose built US corporate. They are all very similar. The locals aren't too happy with what's happening here, but if you own property here you're laughing. Worse than the London Bubble. The terrain is big, seriously big. However weirdly it lacks the long cruising feeling you get in Park City. Unless the top tram is open it's flat. Interesting. Headwall is not that steep!
Anyways we had one day -14 in the sun. I froze and barely rode more than 4 runs before heading for a coffee. Snow was perfect on piste though. Then two of the best pow days I've had in many years. Day 1 about 1ft of pow and topped up by 4-5" on day 2. Windloading allowed for some 2ft places.
Now, too much to say but the jist is; Route finding and luck = OMFG! We managed to get 5th to 20rh chair on FOUR chairlifts over two days. Lone tree, headwall, Dakota and powder seeker. We also lucked out on one gate with ski patrol. We pushed it hard, a few whoops and cheers from the lifts.
Out of breath every lap, hit everything, any drop or lip, so many faceshots, on occasion slammed into a tree (minor injury to face and thumb)...I may have ducked a rope and followed ski patrol down palisades chutes......we wore avy gear. There was a 'charging hard crowd', we joined in proudly representing the UK, it really was aggressive. Hordes of deranged powder hunters of all abilities dropping like lemmings. Saw some bails when all that was left was skis were above the snow. It was something I'll talk about for the rest of my days. I love this side to US skiing.
morning pow  Home swee home  Morning!
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My memory of Big Sky is a bit foggy. Can’t remember where the “headwall” is... Off Lone Peak?
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Apologies @abc, you're right. Just checked, it's headwaters. There's chutes just off the top to the skiiers left. Also the chute I mentioned above is Pinnacles not palisades.....too many ski resorts the names of the runs/faces blend into one. I'll update the TR properly when I get to WiFi and laptop chill zone.
Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to do the tram off the peak. I'll have to come back for that. 
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| LittleBullet wrote: |
Alpine Meadows: snuck a cheeky day here after so many recommendations both online and locally. Glad we did. One of the best rounded resorts in Tahoe. Has everything, mellow to gnarly if you seek it . Crowd is more family with strong skiing ability and very nice to chat to.The kids skiing chutes is impressive. Not the hardcore ski-bums of the 1970s you find in Squaw. It works here and the vibe is just all-round a winner. Sadly inbounds incident the day before reminded us if the dangers even in bounds. Day after dump we still found easy access inbounds and open fresh lines.
drive into alpine meadows
gorgeous view back to main bowl from Scotty's chair
Drive in to alpine meadows
top of Lakeview chair.
Drive to Salt Lake City : went via highway 50 scenic route 10-11hour mission.
We drive truck slower at 60mph to try average up the mpg and avoid wind buffeting etc.
Overnight camp at hot springs. Unnerving drive along 5mile dirt track in pitch black to remote point on Google maps. Got there and woke up to this...pancakes, bacon, Syrup, coffee and hot tub anyone?
Snowbird, Utah
Steep. Nearly European. Snow is noticeably colder than California. Found fresh tracks by figure 8 bowl and gully. Pita transverse. Should have stuck to skiing. Rest of mountain snow was meh and/or baked. Wind swept and fast cirque traverse into steep chutes gave me mild 'exposure' nerves. Didn't like thought of slipping into icy and rockey chute. Nice resort, feels more like suburban kids playground rather than tourist resort. Wish London had this.
views
one of the better chutes off cirque traverse
figure 8 gully. Not to badly tracked a week after dump. Freshies just to sides.
view back to SLC
drive "home"
Hanging out in SLC. Found a cheap bar ($3 a pint / $8 a pitcher) with cool sports games. They let us park the van in their lot overnight and drink a few - fun place might go back.
shuffleboard! Aka minature 'table' curling
Got some looks from the neighbouring bank staff as they arrived to work this morning, guess it's not everyday two slightly hungover Brits brush their teeth in the parking lot.... Tonight quieter strategy.....church parking lot aka park and ride for another local ski resort (Brighton)...
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You've mentioned a shuffleboard in your review and I became interested in these tables. Anyway, it turned out there are lots of them in the internes. Soo, thanks to this thread and your vacations I decided to order a shuffleboard for my lounge room. Thank you. BTW the pics are nice and I hope you had a great time there.
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- go to the Gun Barrel - have the game mixed grill , or bison steak. 
