There's only one word to describe Utah - EPIC!
After a long 8 hour drive through Nevada and across the salt flats into Utah we arrived in Salt Lake City full of expectation, it had been snowing hard since we crossed the state line and the forecast was for the storm to continue throughout the night!
We skied at Snowbird the next day in windy but clearing weather, what a wicked mountain, steeps, trees, and long unforgiving runs, it was pretty windy so the Tram was closed but we managed to skis some great runs and amazing powder!
The next day we once again skied at Snowbird, the storm had passed and the wind had dropped, the Tram was running and the Peruvian Tunnel through to Mineral Basin was open. We skied a couple of lines off the Tram just because we could then rode the magic carpet through the Peruvian Tunnel (So Cool) into Mineral Basin, we made a couple of runs there then connected across to Alta, really amazing to have so much terrain and variety connected by an amazing lift system all on the one ski pass!
Alta was great but with many of the lifts closed for avalanche control work we made a few runs then headed back to Snowbird to finish our day as another weather system rolled in.....!
The following day was very windy and it was snowing hard so we decided to take a drive across to Park City and Deer Valley to see if things were any better weather wise there, they weren't in fact it was worse there so we decided to have a rest day and shopped at the outlet mall in Kimble :)
The snow continued throughout the night and the next morning it was still dumping but the wind had gone, we packed early and headed too Alta with the hope of an epic powder day!
We got it, knee to thigh deep champagne powder as only Utah can deliver, with it been Monday everyone was either at work or at school so there were no crowds, endless powder runs and no lift lines!
We skied hard all day in the trees, it was so much fun skiing together as a family in such amazing conditions, we explored so much unbelievable terrain finishing up skiing untracked steep lines through the trees off the Supreme Lift at 11,000 feet!
Thanks Utah, we'll be back... :)
