Magic95vert Blog

Fate is a funny thing. While sitting at the bar yesterday we were speaking to some people who told us that Brighton was the shiznit on Saturday.

We checked the weather throughout the evening and into the night on Saturday and the weather report looked promising. We knew all the skiiers would want to go to Alta again, so we were trying to recruit at least one other person so that we could take a car to go to Brighton. That didn’t happen because 7 of the 17 of us went to Deer Valley, another anti Snowboarder mountain, so that meant 10 of us had to cram into the remaining two cars. That also meant that we were all going to Alta and the outcast boarders were going to Snowbird, again.

Snowbird got dumped on overnight, but only not as much as Brighton. Also while on the road to Alta the weather was looking about the same as yesterday. We were going to ride anyway, but we would not have been happy about it.

I started this post with a comment about fate. The skiiers we are with are such ski snobs that Alta us the only place they like to ski in Utah. Well as it turned out, less than a mule past the turnoff for Brighton we hit a traffic jam that would make New York proud. We sat in it fir about 10 minutes then gave up and turned around and made our way to Brighton.

So, day one ended with beer and wings at The Porcupine. It’s a local restaurant that served 3.2% beer and you don’t need to be a “member”.

After returning to the condo, everyone just chilled. Some of the guys went to dinner at the “unnamed” bar. The rest of us got pizza at the condo and had a rousing discussion in politics.

Day 2 started out better than day 1, but as we get closer to the mountain, the weather is looking really nasty. I called this post “Day 1 redux” because we are returning to Alta/Snowbird in hopes of actually getting to ride today. The snow reports all say the mountains got dumped on last night, but as it stands now, I am not holding my breath.

I will post again later, hopefully with better news.

Rain continues to fall on Snowbird.

We have written off this first day and are now heading to the ski shop and The Porcupine to drown our misery.

Hopefully this trend does not continue throughout the rest if this week.

So we are at Snowbird today. Seems like a nice mountain, tons of terrain, but it us still raining and the top of the mountain is in complete white out conditions.

Getting our boards tuned now hoping to salvage a half day out ofo today.

Keep it tuned right here for more updates.