It was good, so very very good

Apr

It’s no secret that I love to ski. But I really love to ski when the season is winding down.

Attention turns to biking and running, golf courses open up around the valley, lifts run nearly empty if they run at all, walk on trams at the bird until Memorial Day, backcountry shots that are typically tracked out by 10am on most powder days remain untracked, mountain ridge lines become silent, and ski parnters that I often miss hooking up with during the core part of the winter seem to come out of the woodwork. I think a lot of the latter has to do with the lack of people skiing, so the few that remain seem to gravitate to each other.

So it was yesterday when my good friend Matt Rink dropped me an e-mail and urged to me take the afternoon off to get a Dusk Patrol in that it would be our first outing of the season. Desination? A shot in Little Cottonwood Canyon called Scotty’s Bowl that I’ve wanted to ski for years, but have never gotten around to it, always opting for other spots in LCC when I make the drive over there. My desire to ski it has become such common knowledge among friends that Matt and some others have coined it “Powstash Bowl”.

It was only right that I would get it this good my first time. And no a track to be seen all the way to the bottom. Here’s a teaser photo: (click it to see the larger image)