The third day of opening weekend for Alta: no new snow, bluebird skies, slightly warmer temperatures. While Milton and I took a long walk, made Italian white bean and pasta stew, pumpkin-cornbread muffins, chocolate chip cookies and a plum compote (and Milton followed the sun from window to window around the house), H got out his telemark gear and headed up to Alta.
He got to Albion lodge at about quarter to eight. The crowds are down a bit (Sunday, plus early season, plus no new snow) but he did see a good number of other tele skiers. Like the day before, there were no lift lines once the initial crowd cleared out and he was able to ski right onto the lift for most of the day. Unlike the days before, it was slightly warmer and, since he was working harder on his tele gear, he ended up being overdressed - which must have been a nice change from frozen toes from the last two days.
There are no storms in the forecast (and it's starting to get inversion-y in the valley) so everyone is making the most of it: on the other side of the Wasatch, Canyons Park City has opened their 9990 area for the first time EVER in November. Stoke is high for the season - let's hope it's a good one.
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