A couple of days later, on April 21st, I met up with my friends Kevin and Chris to see if we could catch some early morning skiing in up at SnowBasin Resort which had closed for the season. I picked up Kevin at 5:45am and we met up with Chris at the parking lot at 6:15am and were skinning moments later. It had been a very warm night with temps not reaching below freezing at all. However, the snow was still very hard as we skinned up, due to the strong radiation cooling from the clear night. I didn't think we'd find corn snow, but as we got up higher, it became apparent that we'd hit it just right if we skied a SE aspect. DeMoisy Peak, at 9369', has a nice SE slope that comes off of it, and it seemed like a good spot to get the goods. Kevin and Chris near the top of DeMoisy.
An hour and a half and 3000 vertical feet of skinning later, we were on top. We had great views of Strawberry Peak to the south.
And Mt. Ogden to the north.
Chris and Kevin on top.
We had lovely 1/2" corn snow on the decent, but you had to get there early for it today. We dropped in at 7:55am! Kevin enjoying the early morning corn.
And Chris's turn.
A look back at DeMoisy Peak and the SE facing ramp that we skied off of it.
Back at the car by 8:30am, back in Ogden by 9am. And I still had the whole day left to get stuff done. Gotta love the spring!
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