With a season total (so far) of 59" and a base depth of 21", Alta opened for the 2024/2025 season on Friday, November 22, 2024. They had posted that they would open the Collins and Wildcat lifts at 10 and that the skiing was for "expert skiers" only. Twenty-one inches is barely anything at Alta: the terrain is so rocky that they really need to have a five foot base before you can leave your rock skis at home. They've been making snow but that only goes so far.
While Milton and I went to work, H went skiing. He got his pass and a really good parking spot (the ski bus doesn't start until a couple weeks into December), and reacquainted himself with the Goldminer's Daughter locals locker room. He texted me throughout the day, reporting on all the regulars he saw - the usual cohort. There was at least one monoski guy and one ski-blades guy in attendance, as well as lots of 20-somethings skiing way too fast for the limited runs and thin conditions.
It was a gorgeous day, though, in the 40s and mostly sunny - good for softening the snow a little. He skied until 12:45 and then called it good. Here's hoping for a safe and snowy (in the mountains) ski season.
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