oh yeah BTW I meet Glenn Plake today even got my picture with him.

Well I went to Alta today, and I must say I might actualy like it better then the bird. I will need a powder(well fresh snow it was kinda of heavy i guess)at the bird to compare.

I am not sure how much snow we got today up there but it seemed like a foot i really dont know. The first runs off the high traverse were freaking awesome. Didnt cross any tracks till my 4 th run. ON my 4th run I had my first and only real scare off the day. I dropped into some trees and had slough start right underneath me. I turned left and up the hill to let it pass, as it then hit a down skier below me. It for sure freacked me out, and was good indication on why alot of the terrain wasnt open today.

After a couple runs after that, crush shows up and the real fun begins. We proceeded to GS turn though the Crud, as we search out what little was left to found of untracked. We also skied tons of trees and got in some hariy area on purpose and not on purpose. The Highlights were..

Crush in supreme bowl dropping in to ski lenght width chute and straight lining out, which he owned BTW, but a couple turns later he got a unwanted face shot.

Me dropping me first rocks/small cliffs out west. The first one was about 6 feet(not really sure) , Crush was there, i clipped the rocks alitte bit. Came back to the same rock band after Crush left, and did with more speed and didnt hit any rocks and dropped pretty far down at least 2 of me down the hill. The moto of this story is that head high, quick become twice that when you are going fast.

All the crazy and weird traverse/sidesteps around the place, there are so many nooks and crannies there, its skis much bigger than posted acerage. If you willing to work fresh track can be had all day.

and last but not least, my new skis(183 Cm Volkl Gotamas) came into there own today. I ma getting more use to old school technique that thats required with them, and they just bulldoze though anything. Yeah they are good in powder, but in untracked snow almost anything is goog. Now in heavy wet crud that is a different story, these skis just surf though it as long as your on a-game and have the energy to bend them. BTW they are much stiff than my Metrons B5.

Well that is all folks, check back in couple day;).

bushWacky - hee hee hee that sure was fun, eh mate? Yeah see some of that old school comes through for *real* skiing sometimes ha ha. Glad you hit that jump again it had your name written on it! Yeah Alta is a great place hopefully we can hit it when the stuff closed that day is open. It was fun spankin' all those runs but you also reminded me of how much energy a early-20'somethinDude can exude (hey that rhymed!). But I like the way you wail! Props!

.. dude so we are getting hammered today or what?!?!?!??! I hope you got away from work a little and enjoyed ... me I am heading up to Little Cotton tomorrow ... maybe I'll see ya!!!!

I am not off till friday and saturday...but I got first tracks on Silver Fox, and Harper's Ferry today. Which may have been the best run in my entire life. Then I taught some 7-11 year old Level 4-5s powder skiing on upper emma and in some woods runs I think they had just has much fun falling in it as they had skiing in it. They had a blast.:)

Catch you this weekend hopefully for some spring skiing carving somewhere(Bird or Alta?).

Well its been awhile since I posted, here so alittle update.

Well today it snowed like 2 inches and we expect more overnight. And hte sking has been a mix of Boilerplate Ice, Edgeable fun hard pack, corn snow, slush, and the worst of them all Mank thick goup. Overall Corn seems to be most likely conditions.

Snowbird continues to exceed expectations, even with the Pervinia Gulch closed off there is still tons of terrain to ski on, with decent condition each day. I ma surpirsed more people dont come out in May to ski, the coverage is near 100 percent, and today riding the tram there was at most 8 people on it .

Plake!!! I took some runs with him the last time he was at t-line. What an incredible skier! Good conversationalist as well for the lengthy chair rides. That guy can ski some bumps. What's he sking on now? I think he used to be on something like 213cm k2s.

Glen was on 200 cm K2 straight skis but the is alot more than to say today....

Well with 6-8 inches of heavy fresh snow made for some nice fun turns down Little Cloud bowl today http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/photo.php?photo=318 but it all turned kinda of scary like around 11. Coming down an area of trees below Mark Malu bowl(40 degree pitch), the snow below ripped away...this was no sluff, this was a decent sized wet slide. Moving slow as they do, i just turned away and watch it slide on down, luckly noone else was around below(would of been unlucky if caught in it). this was only a sign off things to come.

With in the day despite numerous closures, there was 3 avalanche that hit opens marked runs. first being on big Emma...then one more on Emma and one more on lunch run. There were numerous off trail, sloughs and slides, but too foggy to know really how many.

the first one on Emma was skier triggered and came down from the area between Wilbere Bowl and Gad Chutes. the slide was about 30 yards wide, and the debris field was 50 yars long. Give me some time and will have picture for you all.

On a side note Volkl Gotamas ski avy debris pretty well;).

Cool pic of the debris field.

Are the rest of those your pics? If so it's very cool that you went to OU. Several kids from HS seem to end up there every year.