Monthly Archive for January, 2011

Forgot to blog Wednesday, too busy riding! Forecast snow actually happened overnight, we decided to head to Powder Mountain that reported 8 inches. We heard good things about Powmow, and what we heard was true, no lift line at all. the eight inch of freshies is true, and it’s not stopping! Only drawback is you can’t see, but its still great! Forecast was clearing at noon, never happened, but we pound the snow so much we don’t even stop for lunch, pow is our food! Memories of the days of crud fade replaced by happiness of smooth buttery fresh snow, with only a handful of other happy souls seen on the slopes at any time. This made it all worthwhile, I can only imagine what it’s like when they get a real powder day.
I think this gets six thumbs up from Team Cobra!

So all that wind and rain equaled icy on our visit to Snowbasin. Venturing off the groomers was rewarded with superhardpack bumpy jarring ride. It was a groomer only day. A shame because there was a lot of really nice looking terrain at Snowbasin. We made what we could of it, capped it off by trying to ride a box at the very end and falling on my ass onto the concrete hard “snow”. It was still a fun day.

First day of riding, off too a late start, no new snow, everyone feeling unmotivated. We head to Solitude, a 40 min drive at most. Cloudy skies, calm winds, pretty warm. No lines, we get passes and head on up the lifts. Right off the second lift we head into gnarly land through a gate with warnings for experts only. We survive, but it was hardly worth the effort, snow conditions were not prime.
We did find some fun stuff, but later in day the precipitation started, which from midway down was rain. Rain makes for pretty sucky snow.
An not bad first riding day. My impressions of Solitude up to now, easy access, not crowded, no lift lines even on a long weeken Sunday of regular season, pretty good sized area, lift price on par, food prices high on par with resorts. Wish we had some of the Utah powder it’s famous for as that would be something to give it props over WB. Only other main complaint is they have a bunch of slow lifts and seem to like making steep exit ramps that shoot you right into walls.