sun day

With exquisite timing, the first day of Daylight Savings (yay! love Daylight Savings - more usable daylight!!) was full of sunshine.  Which was good, because I had already decided that I was not going skiing if it was another cloudy, wet day.  Temperatures were about the same as Saturday so we put on sunscreen (SPF30 still not quite enough to block a slight goggle tan) and off we went.

Alta had gotten a little more snow overnight, three, maybe four inches.  But because it had gotten cold, that meant it was dust on crust first thing in the morning.  H was Day #7 on his tele skis so he stuck to the groomers.  I ventured out into Catherine's Area late morning and found this:  good, soft snow at the higher elevations, but breakable crust where the hillside had baked in the sun earlier in the week.

After a lunch break, H wanted to keeping skiing the Sugarloaf lift because the intermediate runs don't flat out at the bottom quite so much as they do at Supreme, which makes for better tele practicing.  I stuck with the same lift but went a little further afield: hiking way up into Devil's Castle and then over into East Greeley.  The snow in Devil's Castle was the best snow in the whole resort - deep and soft, with no crust issues, and I even managed to score some fresh tracks ... after lunch!  Definitely worth the long traverse.  East Greeley was pretty good too, but the face is on a different angle and catches some serious afternoon sun which meant the snow was soft but heavy. 

Both H's and my legs had had enough by 2:00 p.m.   We paused for a patio PBR then headed home.  We shouldn't have any trouble falling asleep tonight - and it won't have had anything to do with the time change.  But still: yay for the time change!

Blue sky, sunshine and lots of snow - fabulous!