Park City - Day 5

 This was the best snow I have skied in this year. A foot plus on top of the foot from yesterday. Winter temps and nice powder. The day started slow. I parked at Canyons and got there about an hour early. It was peak storm this AM so I wanted to get there while the roads had little traffic. As I waited in the car it became clear they were not opening the lifts on the Canyons side. I learned this from an actual human employee. The app wasn't up to speed at all. I took a bus over to the Park City side. Big difference in wind between the two areas. This was a West wind. The Park City side was all open and not windy even riding the lifts. I thought it would be crowded since everyone was at the one area but it wasn't. Lots of good skiing in the AM and it was snowing pretty hard most of the time. At about noon they started opening the Canyons side and I started working my way back. Fresh powder all over again as they opened lifts. I actually was skiing fresh powder in the woods on my last run at 3:30! A day that didn't look good at 8AM turned into a great day. 

Really happy with the orange skis the last few days. They really float in deep powder which makes a big difference when you have this much snow.

I saw in the news that Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood Canyons had troubles again today. Roads closed for avalanche mitigation and then massive traffic. Getting from Heber City to Park City was no problem all week even today.

Hard to take pictures again as it was snowing all day. Who knows how much more came down?

These last pictures were taken after 3:00 skiing the Saddleback lift:

Snow report at 5AM for Park City. Kept snowing all morning.

Park City - More Snow

 A lot of snow fell last night and it kept snowing most of the day. More snow tonight and tomorrow. Visibility was OK for skiing but you could not see beyond your area most of the day. Comfortable in the morning. Below freezing but very little wind. The wind picked up significantly in the afternoon and it got harder to see with blowing snow. Tomorrow looks like more of the same.

Another day with no lift lines and you could find fresh powder in the woods for most of the day. A local I rode up the lift with said Fridays can be busy. We shall see.

As I was leaving I saw a large excavator that somehow toppled over and crushed two parked cars in the same lot I was in. That would be a trip ender. Luckily no one was hurt. Still can't figure out how an excavator would tip over like that in a parking lot. Breaking News: I just read the excavator flipped when it was driving up a ramp onto the back of a truck.

Cars crushed by excavator:

No Blue Sky Today

 Park City has gotten 546 inches of snow so far this season. The ski patroller I rode up the lift with says that is a record. This means lots of cloudy snowy days. Today was one of them. It snowed most of the day but was on the warm side. Right around freezing temperatures. It probably only accumulated an inch today but from tonight until Fri afternoon the mountains are supposed to get a foot or more. We shall see! Driving could be difficult. The mountain has not been crowded but there is a lot of traffic in the area in general. I stayed on the Canyons side today and didn't do too much wandering like I did yesterday. Temps will be cooling the next few days which should be good for snow consistency.

Yesterday was the picture day. Today had OK visibility for skiing but you could rarely see out beyond the trail you were on.