Happy Easter! And the Interconnect Tour.

Happy Easter! Mine has gone pretty well with church, hanging out, and then dinner at Eric/Scott/Adams'. The weather is super springy today and it was a good day to relax.

Midway through our Spring Break trip, Kate, Dad, and I checked out the Utah Interconnect tour. There's a bunch of different resorts in the Salt Lake City area and this tour goes in and out of six of them via some backcountry skiing and traversing.

We started off in Deer Valley, skiied into Park City, then over into the Big Cottonwood Canyon area which is home to Solitude and Brighton resorts. The ski into BCC was a little sketchy with some exciting road skiing:



One narrow strip of ice next to ski destroying pavement? Sounds good.

We were rewarded with some cool lines at Solitude. I skied the center most line in this picture with some other people from our group. If you look close you'll see a cliff band about 2/3 of the way down. One dude in our group fell above this and managed to stop himself before the cliffs but gave himself quite a scare. We had a group of Germans who would joke about it for the rest of the day: "jou are bery luchy to zurvive!"



Then we rolled to some beautiful sidecountry by Brighton... does this look good or what? A 15 minute hike took us to fresh snow and big smiles. We skied just to the looker's right of the line of trees/forest.



Finally, we worked over to Alta and Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon. A couple more runs and we were exhausted for a day... quality!



Team Youmans represent.