I hiked today with Craig and Candice in Big Cottonwood Canyon. We met at the park and ride and drove on up to the Spruces campground parking lot. We hiked up the Days Fork trail under sunny and calm but cool weather. We then skinned off Days Fork to the east and onto a ridge taking us above Green's Basin. As we hiked along the west and south aspects of the hill the conditions were icy with only about 6 inches of really light powder with a hard crust under it. Thankfully, as we made our way up we got to look at the aspect that we would be skiing. It was some very nice powder over a foot deep. Near the transition area we had some excellent views of Mt. Superior. When we got to the transition point we noticed only a couple of other tracks in the ski run. It was a great powder shot. Craig was whooping it up Frankie style. I had a smile on my face that's still there. The sun was pretty low in the sky by time we got to Green's Basin so a second lap was out of the question. Dang.
Here is a video of us in the parking lot getting ready.
Here is a video of C and C hiking.
Continuing our hike by bushwhacking through the aspens.
After the hiking - now the skiing. Great powder day.
Candice skis the trees.
Pretty nice!
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