Deer Valley
Friday 23 February 2001

Weather

Cold

Conditions

Heavy

 

Last day of skiing in Park City in 2001. When we got up it had been snowing all night; even at the lower elevation of Kimball Junction there was plenty of fresh snow.


I80 from the balcony of our condo



Sue in her corner of the lounge

 By now we were pretty much into a routine and we headed for Deer Valley, a good parking spot, a good breakfast and Sue captured her table in the corner of the lounge to work on her reports.
We headed over to Empire Canyon for a couple of runs. Visibility was very flat and it was still trying to slow. 


Empire  lift


The view from Homestake lift

 The snow was pretty heavy and we got pretty cold, so decided to make our way back to the base area for a warm mid morning drink

Everywhere we went skiing was hard work.

 
After the coffee break, Chris stayed down at the base area while I headed back towards Bald Mountain for a couple of runs off Wasatch Express. Rattler in particular was hard work with soft wet snow not quite covering up all the moguls.


Wasatch lift and Wizard run


Views towards the base area from Big Stick

 Two runs were enough and I headed back to the base for lunch via Big Stick.
As on the three previous days we had lunch in Snow Park lodge.


Lunch at the Lodge






Skiing all together after lunch

 After lunch, the weather brightened up just a little. Sue (and teddy) joined us and we had three runs down Wide West, two from the lift in centre of the run, Snowflake and one from the slightly shorter lift to the edge of the run, Burns.

Chris and I then headed up the mountain for a final cruise around, hitting all the summits and talking relatively easy runs.

  • Carpenter to the top of Bald Eagle Mountain
  • Red Cloud and Northside to the top of Flgastaff Mountain
  • Empire to the top of Empire Canyon
  • Ruby and Wasatch to the top of Bald Mountain
  • Crown Point for access the runs down to Jordanlle
Our last lift of the day, the week and the holiday was the Jordanelle Gondola and after a gentle cruise down Little Stick and Solid Muldoon we called it a day.




Pictures of Teddy on Jordanelle Gondola

Runs

Lift Vertical Easy Runs Intermediate Runs Top Intermediate Runs Advanced Runs
Silver Lake 1200 Trainer
Red Cloud 800 Mountain Daisy Blue Bell
Northside 900 Hawkeye
Northside 900 Bandana
Empire 1227 Orion Orion
Empire 1227 Solace, Orion Domingo
Ruby 750 Hawkeye Guardsman's Glade
Northside 900 Trump, Homeward Bound, Ontario
Homestake 300 Success Little Kate
Coffee
Carpenter 1200 McHenry Silver Link
Wasatch 1400 Wizard
Wasatch 1400 Wizard Rattler
Crown Point 550 Solid Muldoon, Rising Star Big Stick
Lunch
Snowflake 200 Wide West
Burns 200 Wide West
Snowflake 200 Wide West
Carpenter 1200 Trainer Silver Link
Red Cloud 800 Mountain Daisy Blue Bell
Northside 900 Bandana
Empire 1227 Supreme Conviction
Ruby 750 Ontario, McHenry, Trump, Homeward Bound
Wasatch 1400 Keno
Crown Point 550 Navigator, Deer Hollow Kimberley
Deer Crest 900 Jordanelle
Jordanelle 1350 Deer Hollow, Little Stick Solid Muldoon
End of day
Total vertical 22431

Last updated: 24/02/2001