As he usually does, H takes the week between Christmas and New Year's off to go skiing. On Boxing Day (12/26), he hopped on the early bus (6:30 a.m., which is not actually the earliest bus, if you can imagine) and went on up to Alta. The bus was not full. It was snowing hard when he arrived at Wildcat Base/Goldminer's Daughter Lodge but it tapered off by the time the lifts started turning and was just windy. And flat light. The snow was not great, as the first decent storm system had not yet arrived in the Wasatch Front, and there was a definite uptick in "doofuses" a/k/a Christmas week tourists. Alta finally has the Supreme lift open and he did a couple of runs there but the conditions are thin at best.
Meanwhile: A went to work.
On Friday (12/27), H was back on the fullish early bus. It snowed all day at Alta, but the snow was variable - sleet-y, graupel, big wet flakes). It was windy on the Sugarloaf lift, which meant the Supreme lift got busy, despite the thin cover there. He noticed lots more tourists - folks must have been traveling on Thursday. H got two mustache compliments and a third guy admiringly commented on his [very] old school Columbia parka. He left a little early, catching the 1:09 bus down canyon, and there was only one seat left; he figured folks were hoping to avoid the red snake of stopped down canyon traffic later. The roads were well covered with snow and slush to Tanner's Flat, and then wet but clear from then on.
Meanwhile: A went to work.
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