we need snow

It hasn't snowed for a week and what we got a week ago only added up to about an inch.  Alta has a 27" base, Park City has 18", and everyone else (who is open) is somewhere in between.  If we don't get a foot tomorrow - which we won't, because there's not even a chance of snow until Tuesday - we will have hit a new low: historically, the least amount of snowfall at this date has been 90 inches.  We've had 79 inches.

Still, we went up to Alta and took some runs this morning, skiing for 2.5 hours.  It was busier than it's been so far this season, with lots of ski lessons and actual lift lines. Well, not really lift lines but we weren't able to ski right onto the lifts like we've been doing.  The groomers were in pretty good condition at first but were starting to get scraped off in spots around noon; the off-piste stuff is completely tracked out, plus sparse - we weren't interested in risking the bottoms of our skis to try much of it.  It was very much like eastern conditions, except for the huge mountains all around us and the gorgeous bright blue western sky.  Almost any day on skis is a good one.  We just really need some snow to get us back to those great days.