On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 3:13:42 PM UTC-8, lal_truckee wrote:
On 1/2/17 12:00 PM, Toller wrote:
Last year I posted that I was visiting a friend in Sedona AZ and we wanted ski. I have never been on Western snow, and wondered where to go.
People recommended Brian Head as the closest place worth going to.

My friend asked how it was better than Arizona Snowbowl. On paper they are roughly equal; but of course we don't ski on paper.

Assuming ASB has decent snow, what about BH might be worth driving 4 times as far?


View of the Grand Canyon from the north rim.
Seldom visited, glorious view. Meteor Crater just off the route - VISIT.

While in Sedona, don't forget to drop in on Jerome.

When I formed my bucket list, one item was visiting an exposure of the K-T boundary, and the closest is in the hills just above Raton Pass, NM. Did the trip a couple of years back, and along the way hit Meteor Crater, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest (they nicely ask you in the way IN if you have any rocks in the car, and will put a NPS tag on them), Shiprock (from a distance), Four Corners, Monument Valley, and a pass through Grand Canyon south side. If I had planned a little better I could have included North Rim and Breaking Bad tour of Albuquerque.

Findings: On I-10, you are almost never out of sight of a train on the tracks paralleling the route; K-T boundary is marked by a sign pointing out the change in the color of the rocks, otherwise ho-hum; it is incongruous to be driving through red-brown dry desert in heat the AC can barely handle and then come to a bridge over a stream roaring with a flash flood from thunderstorms in the hills nearby. Miscellany - I borrowed my wife's keyring because it has the car alarm remote on it, and when I got home and fished my keying out of the bin below the radio I found the Ipod that had been missing for 2 years (and is missing again now).

Last item on the bucket list - top of San Gorgonio - I got to within sight of it in June one year, but that was the last heavy snow year and I didn't have ice gear and I couldn't tell which set of footprints across the snowfield was the right one.