Watching the storm roll in near the bottom of Big Cottonwood Canyon.It dosent feel like winter until you have your first powder day. Heather and I had our first powder day on Friday while snowshoe the Mill-D trail to Dog Lake.* We made fresh tracks on the first mile or so of trail before calling it a day. Fresh tracks in 14" of Utah powder is a lot of work!
We have also visited the top of Millcreek canyon three times in as many days. The last few miles of the paved road is blocked off for 6 months of the year. Every winter hundreds of xc skiers, snowshoer's and hikers make there way to the small parking lot at the trail head. We take our backcountry skiis and make the long slow trudge up to the many summer picnic spots. We have found that picnic spots contain some great newbie friendly hills and lots of fresh powder.
The road makes for a fun return trip as well, it takes a bit of work in the powder and becomes a really fun ride after a few dry days. Its easy to find yourself on the steeps traveling well over 20mph! or, it at least feels that way...
What are you guys doing? Who should I put on my short list of people to call for snowboarding? Skiing? Snowshoeing?
Heather is buying her snowboard on Monday, and we will be getting season passes at Brighton, M-T only. Lots more blog posts about learning how to snowboard in the upcoming months!
Quick shout out to all the Foosters at BikeForums! :D
* We got engaged at Dog Lake last winter while snowshoeing.
