We Went West

With much delay (due to super-busy getting caught up back at work, plus laundry, plus other stuff), I'm finally getting around to doing ...

 Snowbird is still open for a couple more weekends, and Brighton is hanging in there too, but for us (H), skiing is over.  There's still...

 And with that, the 2025/2026 ski season is over.  As of 2 p.m., Sunday, April 26, Alta was claiming 311" inches (more on that later), ...

Alta says that the midweek storm that made temperatures plummet in northern Utah (wreaking real  havoc on local farmers' fruit trees) br...

Neither of our cars are young: my Crosstrek will be ten years old in August and H's Chevy Silverado is downright elderly.  To save wear ...

In the year with no winter, spring flowers are emerging in the desert.  We were in Moab a couple of weekends ago and while H held down the f...

Sunday was pretty much a carbon copy of Saturday.  Up at Alta, H never once waited in line after the initial waiting-for-the-lifts-to-open l...

We got snow!  I mean, it was just a little two day storm that brought rain and a couple of inches of very wet snow in the valley, but about ...

 Up at Alta, Sunday was pretty much a carbon copy of Saturday: just barely firmed up overnight and then softening very, very quickly.  Word ...

In case you're wondering: Alta's year-to-date snowfall is still at 260".  That's just over half  the historical average.  I...