It's snowing on Friday morning. This promises to be a great powder-day at the mountains.I take off around 8:30 and get to Solutude right around 9:00 AM. This is the one time this season I'll pay full price for a lift ticket. $63. I get out there for a few runs and it can only be described as perfect. It's still overcast and snowing hard, but I'm knee-deep in 'hero powder' where I can do no wrong on the slopes: tackling the steepest terrain, no matter how aggressive I get, i instantly get back under control with the flick of my hips or ankles.
I got about 5 runs in before I had to take a break. The clouds start to pass and the sun comes out. The one unfortunate thing was this mornings weather was SO intense, they had to shut down little Cottonwood Canyon. This diverted all the Snowbird and Alta skiers to Solitude and Brighton. It was a crowded day for Solitude. At least, that's what all the locals were complaining about. i couldn't care less. it was a perfect day for someone used to Eastern conditions and Eastern Crowds.
Around 2:30 I called it quits. I was tired. My legs were shot from all the deep powder. It felt Great.
I ran some errands back in SLC and met up with Ben after he got out of work. We went to a club just outside of the downtown area and saw a cool Reggae band.
We had to stop for late-night drive-through Burritos on the way home, they were great. It was better than most of the food I had when I lived here in 2002.
We got back late and I needed some rest for the long drive to San Francisco on Saturday.
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