a few days after the storm

A nice mid-week storm (not so nice for driving into work in the valley) brought 12" of snow to the mountains of northern Utah.  The systems didn't stick around, however, so it was sunny with light winds on Saturday.  That much snow doesn't last long out here any more; it was all already tracked  out, although Alta's ski patrol was shooting off bombs in Devil's Castle, hoping to get that open.
The snow was pretty firm first thing in the morning but it got softer as the day wore on and the sun shone down. 

Top of Supreme chair, Heber Valley behind me

It really wasn't too busy and we managed to get chairs to ourselves at least every other time up the lifts as we split our time evenly between Collins, Sugarloaf and Supreme.  We did notice that any high traffic and/or steep pitch areas did get skied off quickly (i.e. Corkscrew, Devil's Elbow, bottom of Rock N' Roll).  There wasn't anything super-exciting going on: we just did laps on groomers with a couple side ventures onto small bumps a la Razorback.  Off-piste still seems thin to us this early in the season because 12" just doesn't go very far over terrain as rocky as Alta's.