Being a professional at something implies excellence and knowing how to do the job correctly. A taxi driver’s job is to drive, so they are supposed to know how to drive. Unfortunately this train of though is too idealistic I guess. Driving toward Kapahulu Ave this afternoon, taxi minivan speeds along side and squeezes in on freeway at last minute to get off at the Kapahulu off. On Kapahulu I’m two cars behind, a Lexus SUV is between us. In right lane is a yellow school bus/van stopped, red lights flashing, stop sign folded out on left side of van, also with red lights flashing, and sign on rear of van clearly proclaiming “Unlawful to pass when red lights are flashing”. Apparently english reading comprehension is also not a required skill of taxi drivers. The taxi minivan zooms past the school bus, as does the Lexus. I stop, the bus turns off its signals and I catch up with the idiots at the next light. Taxi plate was BBJ 641, control ID#on dome light 86364, bumper decal T2862, unfortunatley company name only on front of dome light I couldn’t identify.
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Fairly new bento place, the Moilili location itself a new building. Finally got around to trying Kokorotei. They’re tag for uniqueness is that they make the bento fresh at time of ordering. Picked up a tonkatsu bento and a aji fry bento (not on regular menu). The size is a reasonable size, not humongous USA size (I’ll rant about this later in a SLC entry) and reasonably priced. The quicker its eaten, the better, esp for fried items. I hit heavy traffic heading home so it wasn’t piping hot fresh, but I can happily report that the bento were excellent. A step above what you’ll find at what passes as “depato”s here. The rice warm and fluffy, not cold, hard and clumped together. The entrees still crisp and not dried out. The katsu had some nice “marbling” going on, it wasn’t a totally lean cut. Doesn’t bother me as I’m not eating it every day, and the portion size was reasonable. The kiriboshi daikon and kinpira were nicely flavored and cooked. The shoga side was nice, a touch different from what you usually get with your sushi. The little piece of ornamental lettuce not wilted. The bed of cabbage the entree was on was soggy, but that was because it seemed to have been dressed with some kind of light vinager mustard dressing. If anything, the bonus little squiggle of spaghetti was the one unremarkable item. I believe the sides vary. Continue reading ‘Kokorotei’
At Denver International Airport, after a early rushed airport vendor Mexican, we find out our plane has some kind of issue & is being taken out of service. Replacement being flown in won’t be here and ready for four hours at least. Looks like spending the day at DEN. Hey, maybe I can call work to legitimately say flight is delayed, go rent a car, and go hit a Colorado slope!
Getting ready to leave for airport & leave Salt Lake, of course another 7 inches of snow. What a tease to make us want to come back.
Saturday morning wake early, Solitude reports 5″ overnight, and still snowing. We join the caravan of weekend warriors heading up the canyon road to the resorts but arrive at Solitude as one of the early birds. A weekend with good snow and still no big lines, I’m getting to like this! We head up to the very top I asking one of the hosts he said the back area, Honeycomb was open. We make our way up there to be greated with high winds and a closed sign. Second time up it is open and we drop in. The high winds make for not so great conditions and we take the “easy” ride out which end up flat and sucking majorly. I’m not a happy camper. We break for lunch, I decide to dump my pack in a locker. The snow is really dumping now, and with a light load I feel much more positive. Hook back up with Dave & Derek & we session the front mid section until the lifts close. Lots of fun snow to find, and it’s still dumping! And the snow that is falling now is real powder snow. Too bad this is our last day, but bodies are thoroughly sore and worked. I have to say after a bad start, the rest of this trip was excellent, I will be back!
Friday, another clear sunny day. No new snow, lazy morning & head to Solitude mid morning. Zero crowds, snow surface looks ok, anythings better than the ice & rain soaked stuff we saw earlier. See some inviting stuff still on the sidelines. Heading to the top. When I asked, lifty said he’d go for it and do the backside into Honeycomb area, so that’s where we go! Unfortunately the traverse burns already worked legs. We find a nice little kicker in an open field out in the sun, have lunch and end up seasoning the jump for the rest of the day. Jumping is fun’
Thursday dawns clear, only a couple inches of snow at some of the resorts from the remnants of yesterday’s wonderfulness. We decide to try Brighton again. Winds are calm this time, and no crazy lines. I think at most we wait behind two rows of people. Bluebird sunny day, and there still are fresh lines to be found all day. Not quite as nice as yesterday, there are more patches of icy that get revealed, but still nice conditions. It still amazes me how so much people love to stay on the groomers. It’s like getting a mountain bike and riding it only on the street. Again we are enjoying the riding so much that lunch is done on the go, although this time we do actually take time for it.
No new snow in the forecast until tomorrow night, so we need to get it while it’s still there!
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!
A moderate snowfall was reported last night and it still raining down here in town. This may be as good as we get this trip, time to check it out!
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.