wherein "partly sunny" means "mostly cloudy"

We skied both days last weekend and, to be honest, I'm having a little trouble differentiating between the two, even though Alta is really in pretty good shape snowfall-wise (although the latest storm under-produced).  Let's see if we can tell them apart.

Saturday we left the house at 7:30 for the bus.  Although the parking lot didn't seem that full, the Goldminer's Daughter lodge was busy and we had to circulate a bit before finding a couple of chairs.  It was fairly warm (21 - 37 F), mostly cloudy and with a light breeze.  The light was very flat, although we did manage to get a break in the clouds for about 1.5 runs in the afternoon.  Because of the fairly warm temperatures, the snow was reasonably soft although it was wind-swept and beaten down since there hadn't been a refresher in a couple of days.  Going off-piste wasn't too bad, especially if we went in the trees where we could see a little better - we did one Ballroom run that was difficult (for me) because of the flat light.

Is that blue sky?

It was busy with the tail end of the Christmas vacationers and H and I rode the singles line quite a bit at both Collins and Sugarloaf.  We skied mostly Collins in the morning: I cruised the groomers while H played on the edges and in the trees; then moved to Supreme.  Finding a table for lunch at Alf's was surprisingly easy.  We ate quickly and went back to Supreme, where I got into Catherine's Area for the first time this season.  (I had to speak sternly to a group of tourists who were stopped in the traverse.)  When Supreme got crowded, we moved to Sugarloaf where Razorback was skiing pretty well.

In Catherine's Area

H had to take a phone call for work at 3 so I skied out, catching the 3:04 bus back down to the canyon.  After the call, he kept skiing all the way to last chair; I got a "Shooting for the 4:45" text, letting me know he was on his way.