This is my 2nd season, so I decided to plan a real trip out west with the woman and some friends. What a blast...
Snowbird is no joke...that place is definitely the real deal. Humbled me REAL quick.
Solitude was fun, spent lots of time in the Honeycomb Canyon trees.
Brighton was by far my favorite resort of the three...great snow, good groomers, lots of fun tree runs...just an awesome place.
I got a ton of video that I'll post later, but here's a quick pic from Snowbird:
Rode Monday-Friday, but had to quit early on Friday after flipping down the back of the mountain at Snowbird at high speed (Read: too fast)...neck and right shoulder don't feel great...but will heal...
I'm heading there in a couple weeks and likely hitting the same three mountains. (I've only skied Snowbird and Alta - never boarded in Utah.) After having spent most of my life out West I try to explain real mountains to my East Coast friends, but most just don't understand until they go. Glad you had a good time. As you have probably figured out, it is worth making an annual trip west.
Heading to Snowbird to ride Friday and Saturday. Looks like Thursday is the day to go but oh well. Wife paid for my flight and lift tickets and isn't even going (so no babysitting for me!) so I can't complain.
So how was Snowbird specifically that it humbled you? I can tackle almost all in-bounds terrain except the gnarliest (still too much of a pussy to ride cornices and shit)
It's just no joke...I mean, you can get stuck in an area where your only way back down is either a double black, or a double black lol. And it's not very well marked like Brighton.
And their greens are comparable to a lot of black runs here. Not only that, but nothing was groomed, so all the runs were choppy...lots of snow, but not smooth powder, so if you're not used to that, it'll chew you up and spit you out...at least it did to me. I was finally getting comfortable with those kinds of conditions, and was riding with some speed down the back and hit a chunk and just tumbled and tumbled. Good times, but it's been a very very painful couple of days. Haha
This angers me to no end about podunk eastern hills. Trail ratings should be roughly universal but the little mountains out here want to impress everyone with their "expert" terrain. Most people end up fine, but there is always the dumb kid who says, "Well I can ski double-black diamonds at Pat's Peak so I can ski off the KT-22." There are obviously some places with true advanced/expert terrain in the East, but too many places equate trail rating with marketing.
Heading to Snowbird to ride Friday and Saturday. Looks like Thursday is the day to go but oh well. Wife paid for my flight and lift tickets and isn't even going (so no babysitting for me!) so I can't complain.
So how was Snowbird specifically that it humbled you? I can tackle almost all in-bounds terrain except the gnarliest (still too much of a pussy to ride cornices and shit)
Heading to Snowbird to ride Friday and Saturday. Looks like Thursday is the day to go but oh well. Wife paid for my flight and lift tickets and isn't even going (so no babysitting for me!) so I can't complain.
I rode solitude thursday. Was the day fo sho' Deep fluffy pow turns were made.
My trip didnt' go as well as it could have as I was couch surfing and at the whim of my friend. However, i had a fucking awesome time. I L O V E utah and I am already planning a return trip back. This time I'll be driving from LA and staying in a cheap hotel so I hit up some of the other resorts!!
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