Utah Conditions

Snowbird is my favorite area in the U.S. Mineral Basin has some green trails off of the Baldy lift. The Gad II lift has some fun stuff. First time I was there was a powder day and everyone ran to Mineral Basin. Trails off the Gad II had untracked lines all day.
 
After a misunderstanding over where to post about this trip, I decided to keep it here and resume where I left off.

The first and second days of my trip were amazing, but they don't even compare to the third and fourth days.

I spent the 3rd day at Brighton. I was actually going to skip it for another day at Snowbird, but since the road up LCC was closed, decided to go to Brighton after all.

It was an amazing day with 14 inches of fresh powder and almost the entire mountain open.

While Brighton is smaller than the other Cottonwoods resorts, one should not let that dissuade them from going. With a nearly endless combination of lines to choose from, you never get bored. I kept finding lightly tracked lines the whole day.

The Great Western pod has the longest runs, and a mix of open bowl terrain and normal trails. To looker's right is Snake Creek, which has some trails, but I noted for being the best tree skiing I did during my trip. The Crest Express is the next lift over, and while primarily an out of base lift, has some good trails that shouldn't be overlooked. Lastly, there's the Milly Express, which while being the shortest of their high speed quads, serves mostly open bowl terrain with a lot of fun lines to choose from.

Brighton also has night skiing, and I lasted until around 7pm, giving me a 10 hour ski day.

Pictures below:

Great Western lift and terrain

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Crest lift and a trail off it.
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Snake Creek lift and tree skiing
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Milly Express lift and terrain
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I'll post the pictures from my final day in Utah later.
 

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Nice, Sno!
How was the snow like?
Champagne Salt Lake Effected powder or heavier like the stuff coming down around here now.
Looks like ya timed things just right.
& a 10 hour ski day, Attaboy
 
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That’s sweet Sno. 10 hours of goodness. Nice chase.
 
I don't know. It all felt like powder to me. I skied more of it on this trip than I ever have in my skiing life.
no ya got that taste..it will haunt you for ever...the next time you at kton and it's 4 deg and howling..maybe patches of bullet proof. you will just shake your head , saying what the F am i doing here...You are in your 20's , go west young man....
 
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