We had our first really, really good powder day of the year. The previous storms were either too wet or too wind-affected, or Patrol didn’t have the runs open.

Today was two feet of perfect snow with base coverage top to bottom.

The snow reminded of some days I had working at Alta twenty years ago when the snow and the base underneath it were so forgiving that you felt like you could do anything.

I don’t think I’ve ever carried as much speed through the trees. (It also helps having fatter skis.)

Nancy and I were the first two people down the Backside. Northstar is sooo different from Squaw: we went to wait at the rope and there were about five other people waiting for Patrol to open it. FIVE!

It’s a beautiful thing to be the only soul around and have 1800 vertical feet of untracked powder in front of you.

Yahh, brahh!