Official word just came down via Alta.com. Lifts will be running Wednesday morning, so gear up hippies!
With the nice 10” weekend storm and the good snowmaking weather we will be ready to open this Wednesday at 9:15.
We will open with our Collins detachable quad, offering top (10,400′) to bottom (8,530′) intermediate and expert skiing, and our Sunnyside detachable triple, opening up nice beginner and intermediate skiing. Other lifts will open as conditions allow.
The mountain is closed to uphill traffic. The summer road, Grizzly Gulch, and Supreme will remain accessible.
So we installed WordPress at AltaCam recently, but it’s not linked up from the site yet. I found the Panorama Theme by Themocracy from Underground Parent…and I think it’s damn sweet. I just customized the header graphic that came with the theme by using an array of ski photo contest winners over the last few years. Let me know what you think! Hint hint, I might just update Ski Bum Poet with this theme soon as well. Jah knows it’s over due.
Please check out The Daily POW and let me know what you think…
How about this Alta footage! You may have seen this last year on the AltaCam Ski Forum, but a few weeks ago Mark (the guy who shot the film in 1974) posted a new, high-quality version. The best part about this: Although there are more people and tracks nowadays, the blower pow hasn’t changed a bit…thanks Mark!
Powderhound (Jesse) posted to AltaCam about opening day recently, and the season is definitely closing in on us. With a good snowpak start in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Alta announced that opening day for the 2009-10 ski season will be November 20th. That’s on a Friday, so sneak out of work and come up and say hello to everyone! (if you can’t wait that long, Solitude plans to open THIS Friday, Nov 6th)
Here is the Alta.com featured pic for the first week in November…it’s looking pretty good up there.
..contributes to stuffy and sleepless summer nights. In fact just tonight I was laying there restless, thinking about powder skiing. I went to my Facebook acct because no sleepy for me, and on my feed page I saw that Jeff had just posted a new clip on Youtube earlier in the night. It’s below for all to enjoy. Highway 210 Part 1
Yeah, you might want to keep an eye out for part 2…
UPDATE 8/25 – Parts 2 and 3 of Highway 210 now available! Embedded below in order…nice work Jeff and Andy!
Well “better late than never”…I think is how the saying goes. It’s been almost a week since we spent a great day in the sun at Alta with good friends celebrating yet another 675 dang deep inches of powder plus (and counting, as I type right now!). I did not spend any time this year at the top of highboy, but check out this photo we got with our camera. This shot was from the back of the GMD lot. I mean the back, right next to the boot pack up to the Peruvian Lodge. The zoom is not too shabby…
I wonder what the count is up there these days. At least a few hundred on High Rustler proper. I also saw gatherings at Punk Rock, at the Church and of course on Eddies. I did make a highboy pass on my last run. There wasn’t a snowball that came close. Bunch of hollerin’ drunks up on that rock
I felt like a million bucks on my skis. Seems to be that way every closing day no matter how buzzed I get. Simply tapping into the energy of the day turns me into a super hero. I was goin’ backwards, doin’ spinny flips…all that. Haha. But seriously, it did feel good slushing around on fat skis.
The parking lot scene was a blast BTW. We set up at the back of the lot with Tom and Julie (Keller). The band Lake Effect actually set-up right next to us. It was real nice. Check out the vid clip below of a random Alta kid sending it off the snow mound piled up on the east side of the P-dawg lot (it’s a quick 5 second clip)..he gets worked a bit here but they sessioned that thing all afternoon and into the evening. And those kids were going huge and sticking huge mock ski tricks I can bet they’ll be dreamin’ about the pow all summer..
And of course I have to include the show man of the party. Check out this dude. Gotta love the last day at Alta. See ya’ll on the hill next season, and stay tuned to my rants this summer!
The “dump” truck that hangs out at the base of Collins lift has been out a lot this past couple of weeks. Check out the latest snow report at Alta.com:
Current Conditions as of: Wed April 1st, 2009 at 04:30:00 PM
I noticed on Alta’s pics of the day today they were featuring Grant Howard, son of Alta patroller Sam Howard. The caption to the photo (which is below, BTW) reads “Alta local Grant Howard 2nd Place at Junior Freeskiing Nationals”. Wow…Congratulations Grant! In fact, I checked out the results PDF and for age group 12-14 Alta locals took the top three spots! On the podium with Grant: Riley Rose (1st place) and Casey Rose (3rd place). Also, Tasha Heilweil from Alta took 2nd place in the Ladies Age Group 12-14. I think some young men and women are on a career path already
Altafarians in full force. Way to represent you guys…
I can bet they’ll be dreamin’ about the pow all summer..
