Tye Dye Twins
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On Sunday morning my twin trevor, my buddy ron, and I headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon to ski Millcreek Canyon. The chosen route up was Butler Fork and after hours of skinning up hill we got our reward!
Ron the snowboarder suddenly rememberd why he moved out from the east coast decades ago.
And one last shot of me coming down on Lap 1.
We took a lunch break under some trees while we discussed the plan. I broke trail through the 2 feet of snow while the boys got buried by falling snow drifts off the trees. On the way up I was moving very slowly breaking through the new snow and I got the scare of my life. Within inches of my ski tip a GIANT grey grouse suddenly burst out of the snow and flew at my face. I screamed and jumped back, while the bird changed course and ran right into the branches near me dumping snow everywhere, all to the low drum thumping sound of that frightned bird's wings! Never seen that before!!
Trevor got a shot with the gopro of himself and Ron at the top of just before Lap 2
Finally what I was looking for!!! Classic over-the-head Utah Powder!!!
A little ways down the hill I got "snow snaked" by some brush and lost both of my skis and poles. It took about 15 minutes for my twin and I to recover the buried equipment.
Lower down the hill opened up for a second look at a Local Powder Comet in action...
Coming up for air.
Ron on Lap 2. This guy rarely gets powder like this since he is a snowboarder and he is quite tall. Here is his best impression of a "powder graboid".
We skinned back up to the top one last time to get a lap into butler fork. I managed to hit a tree head on, luckily the 25 foot tree was dead or I'd probably be dead!! My twin got snow snaked twice on the way down, so ron was the only one to get out unscathed. No pics were taken as it was getting dark quickly and we weren't getting out quickly either due to the sticky cold snow conditions. We hit the car at 5:30pm.
We were greeted by the "red snake", often muttered by locals observing the slow traffic condtions in the canyons.
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Ron the snowboarder suddenly rememberd why he moved out from the east coast decades ago.
And one last shot of me coming down on Lap 1.
We took a lunch break under some trees while we discussed the plan. I broke trail through the 2 feet of snow while the boys got buried by falling snow drifts off the trees. On the way up I was moving very slowly breaking through the new snow and I got the scare of my life. Within inches of my ski tip a GIANT grey grouse suddenly burst out of the snow and flew at my face. I screamed and jumped back, while the bird changed course and ran right into the branches near me dumping snow everywhere, all to the low drum thumping sound of that frightned bird's wings! Never seen that before!!
Trevor got a shot with the gopro of himself and Ron at the top of just before Lap 2
Finally what I was looking for!!! Classic over-the-head Utah Powder!!!
A little ways down the hill I got "snow snaked" by some brush and lost both of my skis and poles. It took about 15 minutes for my twin and I to recover the buried equipment.
Lower down the hill opened up for a second look at a Local Powder Comet in action...
Coming up for air.
Ron on Lap 2. This guy rarely gets powder like this since he is a snowboarder and he is quite tall. Here is his best impression of a "powder graboid".
We skinned back up to the top one last time to get a lap into butler fork. I managed to hit a tree head on, luckily the 25 foot tree was dead or I'd probably be dead!! My twin got snow snaked twice on the way down, so ron was the only one to get out unscathed. No pics were taken as it was getting dark quickly and we weren't getting out quickly either due to the sticky cold snow conditions. We hit the car at 5:30pm.
We were greeted by the "red snake", often muttered by locals observing the slow traffic condtions in the canyons.
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