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    Alta, UT 1/6/2008

    Day 21: The Storm, Phase II

    After yesterday's graupel fest today's new snow was definitely lighter, yet still not exactly fluff. No matter, it skied very, very well once again.

    There were six of us today -- Skidog, Bob Dangerous, John Babyak visiting from Connecticut, Tele Jon, Tirolerpeter and yours truly -- and with visibility again next to nil we lapped Wildcat exclusively again today.

    Snow was nuking at 3 inches per hour or better, so we got free refills on each run. First tracks in The Ho (Ho, ho, ho! :D ), numerous runs just east of The Ho, and one Ho all the way down the boundary ropeline to the Bypass Road capped the morning with the deepest, most untracked run of the day. It was clear no one skied those lines yesterday, either. When the Alta Bypass Shuttle never showed, all it took was a thumb to hitch a ride in the back of a pickup back to Wildcat past a UTA bus that had slid off the road, even with chains, and hopelessly buried itself.

    At lunch we learned that the road would close at 1 pm, and hopefully reopen at 3 as long as no slides ran too big. Lacking a sleeping bag in the truck, and not anxious to spend a cold night on the floor of Goldminer's Daughter most of us high-tailed it out of there for one positively miserable and long drive down the canyon.

    Bases are getting deep now. Here's today's video, and note at times both the sound of the occasional graupel mixing in pinging off the camera, and also the way the stuff at times sluffed down the hill:

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid1365439038

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