a good day to play hooky

A nice midweek storm brought over a foot to Alta, which gave H all the reason he needed to take a day off from work to go skiing.  It was a beautiful morning and there was a lot open, so he was able to take full advantage, skiing off-piste all day, including Racecourse, Fred's Trees, Extrovert, Chartreuse, Catherine's Area and Eagle's Nest, among others.  The run down Eagle's Nest required a journey out along the High Traverse - in essence reversing a portion of this hike we did last summer - and was his first time out there all season, due to the winter-long low snow conditions.

 View from Greeley Pass, looking towards Eagle's Nest access

Looking at the canyon road from Eagle's Nest vicinity

At 1:45 p.m., the light went flat as the leading edge of the next storm moved in.  H figured that he'd had the best of the day and hopped on the bus.  We've been getting a fair number of active storm systems recently (better late than never, that's for sure) and the forecast was for some good overnight snow into Saturday. 

Around where Eagle's Nest "cliffs out"