Bloody Cold Day!

12/9/09
Originally uploaded by solitudefog

We gather for some hot spiced cider on the beach at the usual 10:30am break. High today: 6, low -22 with wind chill, temp right now: "bloody cold" as Karl says! Video clip from today is here. Oh ya, the black night make an appearance (guess who)

7" of REAL snow!

11/13/09
Originally uploaded by solitudefog

Friday the 13th, our lucky day, 7" of new snow that made everything seem different but still the same for now. More snow (6" to 12") coming in late Sat for some fun on Sun. It's all becoming clear now... There is a future...

Travis Tweets for Halloween

A video is worth a 1000 words... See you on opening day, Oct 6th.

Field Trip to the Canyons

2/21/09
Originally uploaded by solitudefog

Field trip day for some of the fogs today. Off to the the Canyons thanks to John and Cindy, we love you man... We had a great time and we where honored to be your guest. Sun, fun, just a small about of drinking and a whole lot of good friends, what a way to go.

Glorious days are upon us!

Glorious days are upon us! With a lucky 13" mid mountain new snow the last few days it just keeps coming. The morning crew stops for now what is a tradition, our morning 10:00 am juice break. Just enough to warm our insides and get us back out on the mountain to have more fun. Today stats: 43" mid base, 91" for the season and lots of snow in the forecast for the next 10 days (7 of the 10). Honeycomb opened today! Remember, there are a lot of days left in the season before you go out and get all jiggy to soon... I did...

One Week Left!

Only one week left until the LDS party and this was our last Sunday tailgate as well. You can see Paco doing his curry beef taco here along with some of the gang. Pretty nice day for the April 6th, a little dust on crust but the crust was not bad. Forecast for the week is more snow. That's a nice shirt you have there Uncle George...

Fat Tuesday

Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or "Pancake Day". Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival the three day period preceding the beginning of Lent, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday immediately before Ash Wenesday. The entire three day period has now come to be known in many areas as Mardi Gras, so as it is elsewhere, it is also here with the Fog at Solitude. Beautiful day, lots of snow, and a sunny day just for us.

Brisk Tailgate Wednesday

Today's high was supposed to be around 7 degrees! I'm not sure what the temps where today, but whoa, it was cold. Brighton reported a record low of -2 degrees. But, nothing like some great friends and some good warm goodies to finish out our day. Warm Chicago Dogs and some Crazy George spiked cider did just the trick to take the edge off of the cold temperatures. We said goodbye to Tony and Barb today from California, hopefully they will be back for Brigs birthday. Oh yeah, Linda gave Bill a new ruskie hat today, dig it!

... And the Snow Continues!

Storm after storm, it just keeps coming. Now, none of us our complaining mind you... Today resort stats: base 89", season total 227". Next few days should see some clearing and sun, but as you know with Solitude, there will still be places of powder to find until the next storm. Another glorious day for all of us. Here is what the SL Trib had to say today: "Weeks of pounding snowstorms have helped quench a thirsty Utah, which may offset last summer's depletion of water in record-setting temperatures. Winter storms have brought the state's total snowpack to 115 percent of average, which is unusual because drier conditions had been expected for winter, according to the National Weather Service. The region is currently in a La Niña year, meaning that waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean are cooler. That typically translates to drier conditions across the southwest - and in Southern Utah. To the north, however, the state typically sees above average snowpacks. "It's definitely made improvements," National Weather Service Meteorologist Monica Traphagan said of the recent snowfall. "December was the fourth wettest [on record]. That's going to help the snowpack. We are in much better shape than we were in last year."

Awesome Powder Day!

So we start the day with Big Cottonwood canyon closed due to a couple of slides. Stinky in his Audi and the Morton Salt guy in his Brat are waiting in line. Ron and Travis are waiting in the lot, John is at home just waiting for a call to let him know the canyon is open. At 10:10 am it happens and we are a go. 3 hours later, smiling and grinning from ear to ear after riding in 15 - 20 inches of untracked fresh powder we are back to the lot to tailgate and discuss our days adventures. Awesome stuff, we all look forward to tomorrow to do it all over again.

Two More Days of Powder

Another great powder day at Solitude. When we arrived this morning, there was a few inches of powder and snowing lightly, by 10:00am is was snowing in full force. Mid mountain report was 11". I know up on Summit there was at least 18" to play in. As of today, Solitude reports: 72" base with a season total of 172". Let it rock in Jan and Feb...

So... December Begins

12" the last two days, we are starting to feel it...

Sacrifice to the Snow Gods II

At last weeks sacrifice we where able to get our biggest snow storm so far, so guess what? Another one was in order. CG attempted to burn this snow baby into a puddle of plastic, we got her warm and she was stuck to the foil snowflake, but no total melt down. Maybe it was not in the stars this week, we did stir the snow gods thou, a brisk wind came up as she started to warm up a bit. We are ready for the season to start soon, are you?