Park City
Friday 14 February 1997

Weather

The weather forecaster on the TV started the day with "It’s a great day on the slopes for Valentine's Day". He was wrong.

The day started cloudy. The sun tried to break through but failed. Gradually it got colder and there was intermittent light snow and some sleet.

Conditions

Started in excellent condition. The sleet left the snow surface a little heavy.

Overall

The last day.

As usual, Chris and I headed up the mountain with arrangements to meet Sue later.

We started off by skiing all of the runs from King Consolidated in turn, starting from Seldom Seen and finishing with King Con itself. Most of the runs had been freshly groomed and were pretty smooth. Combusion also freshly groomed was also great to ski.

After a mid-morning break, we moved across to Pioneer. 10th Mountain through the trees was particularly enjoyable. This session was cut short because the lift was closed for a while to allow a helicopter to land to airlift out a casualty, so we stopped earlier than planned for lunch.

Chris went off on his own after lunch to clock up some more "vertical". After seeing Sue to the Gondola as the weather deteriorated, I did two bump runs off Motherlode and three runs off Silverlode before heading down the mountain.

For the last run, I looked for a bit of a challenge. Stopping short of Silver Queen, I turned off the trail down the ungroomed face. This proved to be fresh powder in excellent condition, about as steep as Blueslip Bowl but in much better condition. Finally the soft bumps of Waterfall saw the end of the day.

Vertical: Sue:3628 Chris:30350

Vertical (feet)

28718

Runs

Lift	Vertical	Easy Runs	Intermediate Runs	Advanced Runs
First Time	270	Silver Hollow
Eagle	1140		Temptation
King Consolidated	1200		Hot Spot	Seldom Seen
King Consolidated	1200		Climax	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Monitor	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Eureka	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Liberty	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Shamus	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Sitka	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Courchevel	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		Chance	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		High Card	Combustion
King Consolidated	1200		King Con
Break
Silverlode	1305			Belmont
Pioneer	965			Lower Pioneer, Sampson
Pioneer	965		Comstock	Lower Pioneer
Pioneer	965	Woodside	Red Fox
Pioneer	965	Mid Mountain Cutoff		10th Mountain
Lunch
Pioneer	965		Red Fox	Lower Pioneer
Pioneer	965	Mid Mountain Cutoff		Sampson
Pioneer	965		Single Jack	Lower Single Jack
Motherlode	1265			Glory Hole
Motherlode	1265			Newport
Silverlode	1305			Dynamite
Silverlode	1305			Prospector
Silverlode	1305	Sidewinder, Claim Jumper		Waterfall, Silver Queen Face
Total vertical	29115