Waist_Deep_In_The_Wasatch's blog

What a day in the Wasatch. 3 feet of snow in the last 3 days... And today, blue skies and fresh powder.

The avalanche danger was high in the upper elevations, so we stuck to our hidden gem spot in the wasatch foothills. The snow was easily waist deep, but it hasn't had time to consolidate so we hit a few rocks. No damage done. Just some mud on the ends of our ski poles.

We signed our names and checked out.

Is this a trick question? No, there's more depth to it. Why this philosophical challenge? I went skiing a Brighton, Utah a few days ago. I haven't skied there in over ten years. Just arriving in the parking lot brought pack a lot of old memories. It's seems like older you get, the more this nostalgic feeling grips you when you go places you've been before. I can't imagine what it will be like in twenty or thirty years. I guess that why old folks like to tell stories.

Back to the question. Why do you Ski? For the Feeling.

Three plus feet of snow in the cottonwood canyons over the weekend. Finally the rocks and tree stumps are getting buried. Most of the Utah resorts are now open.

The snows drove this creature of the woods.

I woke up to four inches of new snow at my house in the Salt Lake Valley. Alta was reporting 8 inches overnight with another 8 plus today... and it was Demo Day. I tried out a number of telemark skis, so check back in the coming days for my reviews. (They will be under the GEAR REVIEW section of nationaloutdoors.net.)

The sky's are grey and getting darkier and the wind has picked up. Looks like the constipation of high pressure has ended and snow will dump. Big snows in the mountains of southern and eastern Utah, with less snow in heart of the Wasatch, but still very welcomed. 8 to 12 inches expected for Snowbird and Alta which both opened (barely) today.

Waist Deep in the Wasatch is blog about the ski season in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, home to the 2002 Winter Olympics and the Greatest Snow on Earth.

It's the last day of November and the mountains have received only a few feet of snow. Solitude and Park City are open with a few runs, and Alta opens tomorrow with a few man made snow runs. The backcountry is spotty.