Utah Pow
Thursday - February 26th, 2009
The past few weeks there has been a nasty high pressure system sitting over Utah and the dry, warm weather associated with it left the ski conditions pretty marginal. This last weekend, however, we had the perfect set of storm systems roll through and change that all around really fast. The first couple days dropped a foot or so of super warm, wet, PNW style snow that knocked out surface instabilities and provided an amazing base for the two or three feet of super low density, cold Utah blower pow that fell over the next couple days. I got some ridiculous skiing during the storm then on Tuesday the sun finally came out, so needless to say, this week was good.
I got an early start on Tuesday to try and beat the powder frenzy that was sure to ensue. I met up with Jeremiah Watt at 5:30 to start our skin up Little Superior, and it was a balmy -6 degrees at the trailhead.
We got to the top just before sunrise, and were treated to over 2000 vertical feet of chest deep cold smoke.
Photo by: Jeremiah Watt
