Took a two-week trip up to Salt Lake and Jackson Hole last month (Feb 4th-16th). Stayed in Salt Lake the first weekend (5th-8th). Skied Park City, Brighton, Alta and Solitude in that order. Had been to all before except Solitude which I enjoyed. Especially the stuff surrounding the Summit lift. Though Alta has been my favorite, Brighton is really starting to grow on me. There's some great tree skiing and the terrain off Milly's is pretty fun. The best skiing of the trip was had the following weekend here, to the left off the Great Western lift, through the backcountry gate. But I digress. Got alil bit of snow while we were there, only a few inches though, but enough to keep things soft. On Monday most people who were there with me went home, but me and my buddy hit the road for the 4-5hr drive up to Jackson Hole. Drive went smooth, weather was good so no issues. Skied in Jackson Tuesday though Friday. Same deal with the snow. Got a few inches here and there, enough to keep things from getting to tracked out, but nothing crazy deep.


Jackson Hole!


Jackson Hole mountain is apparently huge!


Tram building


Big Red!


In the tram. It was packed.


Looking back at the base.


At the top of the world!


People hanging out at the edge of Corbet's Couloir. That's me in green pants.


What I was looking down at.


Cody Peak, No Name Peak and Rendezvous Peak, from right to left if my memory serves me right.


Tram cruising on by over my head.


Bridger Gondola


Time to go back to Utah.

So we ski Friday and then head back to Salt Lake. Get into town around 9pm and it started to snow lightly. I go to bed hoping I'd get to visit the white room the next day. I was not let down. Overnight and throughout the morning of that Saturday the region got hit hard. 6-10in in the city, 18-24in or so up in the mountains. We opt for Brighton, figuring it be less crowded over there. Best day of the trip. No pics because we didn't have time to stop. Got one video in though of me skiing some powder. So light and fluffy. The feeling is truly indescribable to someone who doesn't know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1xGRAhkHfY

Sunday we hit Snowbird, snow is still awesome but somewhat tracked out by now. Monday on the way back to Vegas we stop at Brian's Head to get a couple of hours in. Most of the upper mountain was on windhold though so I mess around in the park for the most part. 11 days of skiing. 7 resorts. 2000 miles in the ol' Jeep. One great trip.

I love Jackson, probably my favorite mountain.

Heading up to Big Bear on Saturday if any of you LA folks are interested.

philly & swede:

Thanks for two awesome, detailed trip reports. I'm jealous!

has anyone been to hunter mountain (nyc)? thoughts?

looks sort of crappy with only a few blacks, but maybe enough for one day...trying to convince people to go this sunday. think i am addicted.

What a crappy snow year in CO. Bleh.

Jackson is great...been out there twice

I flew out to Tahoe this weekend. no freshies but it was a typical great spring weekend

Thursday skiied Alpine Meadows. in the 40's without a cloud, got completely sunburned. everything being hit by sun was super soft and easy...some of the bowls were still hard and cruddy though. oh well. did 1 run right under the Scott chair, I love that terrain but it was frozen crud.

Friday skiied Squaw. even warmer and sunnier, got damn, thank god we got sunscreen. skiied a bunch under Granite Chief, such great terrain over there. a fast groomer and some non-dangerous interesting stuff. did some stuff off Siberian Express as well, that was super fast and fun.

Saturday Squaw again. skiied a bunch of KT-22, all groomers b/c my legs were shot by this point. buy god damn it was fun. we did the one groomer off to the left and another one that was much less crowded just past it (we had to do a quick skate over a little hill past another lift). not as fast but a longer sustained pitch and there was no one on it. such fun

anyways Tahoe in the Spring

PS: seeing the terrain under the tram at Squaw while riding up was so awesome, knowing the freeride competition is out there this year. that terrain is so stupid

Yea BABY the season has returned!!

Im in Aspen again until Feb 2010....

Grinding and Riding.

Anyone visiting and want a tour of the Hill hit me up we can go for some runs

Did you make the drop or just looking?
I've been there and looked but didn't go.
Skied the Alta Chutes later that day though. =)
Yeah Jackson Hole is my favorite also, spent a week there three different years.
Skied Big Bear, Wrightwood area, and Mammoth lots also.

This thread brings back some great memories.

I'm going to Big white for 3 months in starting in Jan, haven't ridden much in the past few years and gonna make up for lost time.

Snowboarding in Slovenia in February and finished up looking like this. No more Boarding for Dave then. 3 operations this year so far and I can still only walk on it. nothing physical.





Happy boarding people.

Dave, wtf did you do, run into a tree, fall on a rock?

yikes, that looks rough dude, hope your getting better

Just took a fall at speed, nothing out of the ordinary but landed akward and it took out my PCL. Had reconstructive surgery on it. Was given 30% chance of playing football (soccer) or boarding again before the op. Im not confident its done the trick

oh my good jesus christ

I think we need a TR about that Slovenia visit!!

sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon

went to stratton/killington this weekend. they didnt have much/any snow. we already had everything booked so decided not to cancel and ended up just drinking wine/hanging out.

climbed a slope on our own since all lifts were closed. took about an hour to get up there

We've just had a meter of snow here in Italy. Going to get me one of them new fan-dangled banana boards for this season. Will report back if it's any good or not.

Just went up for the first time. Terrible snow

im going for a week on dec 10th, and then kicking horse for 3 days. cant wait!

Reverse camber is AMAZING!

Ok, just got home from a terrific weekend in Hemsedal. Really great conditions this early on! Also got to try a banana-board/v-rocker and it was just amazing. Think the board itself was a Forum Scallywag and it rode incredibly well, really had a lot of fun outside of the slopes. The board was really flexible and did incredibly well in the more powdery areas. Will definitely buy one when I get the money for it. It qualifies as one of the best moments I've ever had on a snowboard, just so incredibly fun to ride. I recommend everyone in here to go try a v-rocker board over the course of this winter.

Anyone have any good binding recommendations? Will be going with the Scallywag board obv.

hey im trying to organize a trip in dec/start of january for me and three others. we want to drive from ny to vermont the 28th of dec, ski/snowboard the 29/30th. spend one day at our house in boston for nye, then go to another resort for another two days, maybe in like new hampshire or something just to get a little different taste. what would you guys recommend as far as resorts and lodging and all that assuming some are non-poker playing college kids and budget shouldnt be too extravagant? thanks a bunch, love all the pictures.

13'' of new snow at Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort yesterday. All (3 of them lol, but hey it's a decent local hill) lifts are running for the first time of the season. Going to head up there in a few days to get my first turns of the season. I'll try to remember to post a short TR when I do.

Hey,

Three friends and myself want to go skiing and snowboarding from the end of January to the end of February for 3 to 4 weeks.

Some of use are used to go ski in the "Portes du Soleil" French/Swiss domain, but this time we want to try out Canada. We would like a great skiing domain (wide variety of slopes, some off-piste, good heliskiing possibilities). We would also like it to be a great skiing resort/station/town where good restaurants, clubs and bars are readily available/within walking distance.

While we are of course going to do some research on our own within the next few days, I thought I'd ask you guys for advice as well as I imagine some of us have similar interests and getting first hand experience rather than commercial sites' comments would be great. If you have sites to recommend or anything else to add, please feel free to do so.

I guess a trip report will be in order at some point .

Thanks in advance for any help!

Whistler would be the obvious choice except that it's during the Olympics.
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/mountain/index.htm

Maybe head south of the border?
Sun Valley, Jackson Hole, Aspen, or Vail?
http://www.sunvalley.com/SunValley/info/rst.aspx
http://www.jacksonhole.com/mountain-info.html
http://www.aspensnowmass.com/onmountain/default.cfm
http://www.vail.com/mountain/mountain-home.aspx