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Ski Days This Season: 20

Collin’s Valley, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT: 8
Wilbere Ridge, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT: 1
Snowbird, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT: 11

Oh school, how you interfere with my skiing far too often. Seems like it was in bad taste that the UofU puts finals week right when we get the first big storms of the season.
Every year.

Things to do while waiting for snow:

Stand under snow machines and pretend you’re getting face shots on a mid-February pow day.
Show up at noon, sit on the tram deck and get a goggle tan. If anyone asks why you’re not skiing, say you shredded hard all morning and are trying not to irritate a knee/back/foot injury.
Steal food. From everyone and everywhere.
Make up stories on the chair to people from Wisconsin. Personal favorite: I was just released from prison this morning and this is the first place I came. There is no way I’m ever going back.
See how far into Snowbird’s valet parking lot you can get your car without getting noticed.
Keep asking your friends which run they’re skiing, even though there is only one run open. That joke never gets old, right guys? RIGHT?!?!?
Hold impromptu big mountain competitions on areas of the hill with the least snow. Just make sure you’re the first person to ski down.
Annoy your friends by acting like a meteorologist. “Big low pressure system moving in here. Jet stream will be right overhead. Should get some serious action. Lake effect. Precipitation. Tropical Front. Other buzz words.
Lie about lines/cliffs you’ve already hit this season. I just stomped Kong. On rock. No I wasn’t scared. I’m extreme.

A forecast I can get behind…