christmas eve 2017

That lovely little storm moved out, leaving a total of thirteen inches of new snow behind (which sounds like a lot but when you're Alta, you need way more than that to cover the rocks).  It also left cold temperatures for Christmas Eve, starting out at 5 F and warming up just barely into the 20s.  We think that those temperatures (and the flat light from overcast skies) kept a lot of skiers away as after the initial crush when the lifts opened, we were skiing right onto the lifts for the rest of the day.

Brrrrrrrr!

We both had stiff legs - H from getting back onto his telemark skis and me from being generally out of ski-shape - but the snow was pretty good, at least until it got skied off in the afternoon.  We were on Sugarloaf for most of the morning, where they had gotten another couple of trails open, helping to spread the traffic out a bit.  We could hear ski patrol setting off charges all over the place and that would hopefully open things up as well.

I had to go in for lunch early because my toes were so cold; H annoyingly claimed that his feet warmed up as the day went on.  After lunch we did a couple of runs off Supreme.  They had opened Rock N' Roll and the snow was good in there, soft and bumpy.  H's tele day #2 legs started to protest at that point so we went back up Sugarloaf and then did laps on Collins into the afternoon.