Since it was Thanksgiving, I went to Gobblers Knob.
The photo was taken in the morning heading up.
A look at Raymond from the ridge.
Haze starting to build in the valley.
This was my second trip up Porter fork so...
Road was filled in and smooth from all the dog walkers, skimos and sledders.
Getting to the base of main Gobblers really hadn't improved much. I got off the skin track going up the gully and broke my own to the bottom
\ of the run. I found 6-8" settled new snow over denser old snow. total WAS 20"+. Skiing from the ridge was thin and bushy with my skis
breaking through mid pack layering on the open slope.
Weak shallow snopack does not bode well for winter's future.
Starting at upper Solitude, I followed the road-trail into Willow Heights continuing to the ridge above West Monitor.
Looked marginal to ski Wills and ascend thru the brush to West Willow so.
I took a pano of Silver and the meadows before traveling along the ridge for McDonalds and Dutches. Brushy!
Skied the upper corner into Beartrap, ascended to the west, followed the ridge skiing a lower angled line into Mill D and out to Spruces.
Park city ridges have a similar snow pack to Porter fork in Millcreek. More exposed so more wind effected. 20"+ out of the wind.
Teaser wind drift slide in the corner of west Monitor is pretty meaningless until we get an actual storm.