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Alta fan with new respect for Deer Valley
I just got back from an eight day ski trip to Utah. While I spend most
of my of time in JH and Utah most of my Utah skiing has been Alta/Snowbird. My long time ski buddy had a ski-in ski-out condo at Deer Valley and invited me to join his party which I quickly agreed to. I last skied DV about 5 years ago and even then probably only skied it maybe 5 times. This last week had lots of snow and I did get over to Alta four times for the big dumps. Even getting Mineral Basin right after it was opened after several days. But yesterday at DV my 13 year old son and I had one of the best days ever skiing the trees at DV. Almost nobody was in the trees and we got very little tracked powder late in the day. Maybe nobody with expensive suits (clearly not me) wants to bang the branches or whatever but I found yesterday's skiing as good as I have ever had. I can't compare to Alta the same day since I wasn't there but the snow was definitly dryer Friday vs Thursday. The good thing is I will be back in two weeks. Fred |
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Nice report.
Please remember when you tell people how good DV can be and they don't believe you, just admit that *they* are right ;-) Look me up when you get here if it snows and you want some one to ski Alta with. I think we have until the 17th. pigo wrote in message oups.com... I just got back from an eight day ski trip to Utah. While I spend most of my of time in JH and Utah most of my Utah skiing has been Alta/Snowbird. My long time ski buddy had a ski-in ski-out condo at Deer Valley and invited me to join his party which I quickly agreed to. I last skied DV about 5 years ago and even then probably only skied it maybe 5 times. This last week had lots of snow and I did get over to Alta four times for the big dumps. Even getting Mineral Basin right after it was opened after several days. But yesterday at DV my 13 year old son and I had one of the best days ever skiing the trees at DV. Almost nobody was in the trees and we got very little tracked powder late in the day. Maybe nobody with expensive suits (clearly not me) wants to bang the branches or whatever but I found yesterday's skiing as good as I have ever had. I can't compare to Alta the same day since I wasn't there but the snow was definitly dryer Friday vs Thursday. The good thing is I will be back in two weeks. Fred |
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pigo wrote: Nice report. Please remember when you tell people how good DV can be and they don't believe you, just admit that *they* are right ;-) I understand! Look me up when you get here if it snows and you want some one to ski Alta with. I think we have until the 17th. I will be at Iron Blossam unit 919 from April 9-16. You can contact me there or drop an e-mail. Fred |
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