We Went West

In which two lifelong Easterners packed up their entire lives, complete with their crazy dog, and headed to the mountains of Salt Lake City

Saturday, May 16, 2026

by the numbers

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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 ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

in-betweens

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 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...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

fizzle

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 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), ...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

301 (is it though?)

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Alta says that the midweek storm that made temperatures plummet in northern Utah (wreaking real  havoc on local farmers' fruit trees) br...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

this hike is why we drove the subaru to moab this time

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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 ...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

four miles, full of flowers

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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...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

eester

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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...
Sunday, April 5, 2026

inching upwards to 289

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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 ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

pie in the sky

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 Up at Alta, Sunday was pretty much a carbon copy of Saturday: just barely firmed up overnight and then softening very, very quickly.  Word ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

oh yeah it's spring

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