damp around the edges

There had been no snow to speak of since that nice Christmas Eve/Christmas Day storm but we did finally get a little system move in on Saturday.  There was about an inch of new snow on the trails when we got off the bus at Alta Saturday morning.  It snowed all day although it wasn't accumulating very quickly; we ended up with about three inches during the day and then more overnight.

Downstairs at Goldminer's Daughter, getting ready to run for the bus

We skied off all three main lifts (Collins, Sugarloaf and Supreme) and while the snow was decent, there were little rocks working their way up through the base everywhere.  Temperatures were fairly warm so if it had really been coming down hard, we would have gotten quite wet.  As it was, we got just a bit damp and chilled and when noontime rolled around, and the high traffic areas were all skied off, it didn't take much to convince us to call it a day.  With so few people up at the resorts it was a quick bus ride back down the canyon and even with a stop in at the grocery store, we were back at home by 1:30 p.m.  The mountains stayed shrouded in clouds through the afternoon and evening as we kept peeking out the windows at them, fingers crossed for soft turns in the morning.