Conditions Report
Report from October 25th, 2018
My friend Mitch sent me photos ripping of Main Chute at Alta, UT with new snow yesterday.
I was at the gym in Park City halfway through a workout.
I dropped what I was doing, picked up my gear, and drove straight to Alta.
It was 2:30pm.
I was pretty excited and hiked up quick.
1 hour to the base of the chute – 30 mins to the top of the chute.
No one had yet skied the upper half of the chute and it must have snowed a bit the previous night.
I topped out somewhere around 5pm with a 6:32pm sunset looming closely.
The clouds were in and out and when in, they were impenetrable to the eye.
Finally, at about 6pm, a window opened up and I went for it.
The skiing was fun.
A few inches of new snow on smoothish, softish, hardish snow/ice.
In the middle of the season, I’d have called it ‘dust on crust.’
In October, I called it a ‘mini powder day.’
The sunset driving down the canyon was brilliant.
This was our first day of the season for 2018/19.
Our last day of 2017/18 was October 1st, 2018 in Patagonia.
We head to Antarctica to ski guide with Ice Axe Expeditions on Tuesday.
If you ski an early season line and don’t film yourself doing it, did you even ski it?