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.
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Dang it, SFO to SLC flight delayed, won’t be doing the park city dirtbag freebee deal.
Car rental counter is taking forever too.
AO SFO. SFO-SLC flight delayed first by one hour, then by two. So much for first day boarding…
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Dammit, what heck, it’s just past 10:00pm and all the bars at HNL airport are closed!
Off to board in Utah. Hopefully the snow conditions will be much nicer than what Root and Fabio experienced on their initial early-season exploration last time!
So I find myself around 1300 miles short of attaining premier status on united. This would be highly advantageous for future travel because of the waived baggage fees. United won’t give me or sell me those eqm’s so I need to fly them on the cheap.
So what I have here is a pretty whack plan.
HNL-LAX 2139 0511
LAX-SFO 0640 0805
SFO-HNL 0849 1205
BUT it was cheap and should save me at least the amount of the ticket in baggage fees.
Mad dash to get out of condo to catch bus. Close to a foot of fresh fluff on village walks. Early in the morning, I entertained the thought of putting the board back together, running downstairs, and ninja a run down the stairs and down the mall. I think if they catch you it’s a healthy fine though.
Anyway, we are at YVR BK with the farewell poutine. No travel issues, down here it’s rain.
So does the 25cm flu work on airplane tickets? Of course overnight before the day we leave, 24cm has fallen and it is still going, winds are calm, the day is forecast for partly sunny, it’s a weekday with deserted village. Curses!
Can’t complain, we got some decent stuff, but man, this looks so choice.
So yet again the fire alarm has gone off at our accommodations. There are a bunch of unhappy cold people mulling about.
Everytime this seems to happen.