As of Sunday April 9th our temperatures have now shot up so high that the spring corn we all love cannot be created. Highe for the next several days in Park City are in the high fifties and low sixties and overnight lows in the mid to low thirties. So we cannot get the hard freezes for several hours needed at night to create the marvelous corn during the day. Instead we will get glop and glue snow as the sun bakes it. It creates the dreaded “stop go” condition that can actually hurt you if you hit that snow fast enough. So you should ski high in the Cottonwood Canyons this time of year.

But there has been so much snow in the Cottonwoods that LCC has been closed and in interlodge for the past five days. And with rising temperatures that means the avalanche danger actually increases. UDOT is telling everyone they will be closing both LCC and BCC during most of the day for avalanche control. And they also said if you go into these canyons the next week you could be stuck there overnight if avalanche conditions change (e.g. higher temperatures or even rain).

A totally unnatural year, but I still enjoyed the fresh snow.

I say just get out there and do it! I am marrie, 63, and my husband doesn’t ski or do nearly half as much as I do. Yes, it isnt as much fun skiing by yourself as it is with my brothers, but I still go out 2-3 times a week solo, and have a blast. Also, I would not hesitate to travel by myself. Frankly, I could use the break, if you cath my drift!