november 5th

by Liza Sarychev. all photos from November 5th, 2013 at Alta, UT Waking up to a half-inch of snow in downtown SLC is never a bad sign when you’re about to go skiing. As we drive up Little Cottonwood Canyon the excitement grows. We park on about 7 inches of fresh. Two hours later, atop the skin track, it looks more like a foot… A foot of the cold smoke Utah is known for. Carl Heath was brave enough to go first. Dropping off the backside of Alta into the southeast facing zone, Gargoyles, he scraped rocks about every turn […]