LCC was not much better. Left Midvale at 7:05, smooth sailing until the Sandy/Wasatch merge. inched up slowly, until the park n ride at the canyon base, where the two lanes pre-merge sat at a standstill for at least 20 minutes. Dunno why, once we started moving again, saw no evidence of a crash. Got one of the last parking spots in Entry 1, directed by Snowbird staff to parallel park, inner two wheels on a snowbank, very little room between cars, on an incline. As expected, it was a very tough exit around noon, since we had a decent amount of new snow, the road surface was very slick, and I had to cut my wheels hard to get out of the spot. Hill didnt help.
I had to call it early and want to avoid a cluster on the way down. A bit past noon. It was Lord of the Flies on the parking road, afternoon shift cars were circling in all directions looking for a spot. Got asked numerous times if I was leaving - walking down parking road with skis - peeps wanted to follow me to my spot. I told em I had no idea how much further down I was, since I parked away from where I usually park. After about a minute, they finally stopped following me.
Finally was able to ski down to my car. Within 10 seconds, a driver asked if I could have my spot. I said fine, but it will take 10 minutes or so. They waited, but a bit of a PITA to be getting out of gear and clearing off the car with someone watching ya.
Canyon road down was interesting. Gridlock heading up the mountain to Alta. Needed 4wd or a surf board, just to handle the running snow melt on the road. Several sedans were crashed into the downhill snowbank. A bit below entrance one, had to slow down for four sedans in a row stuck in the snow bank, on a straight away. And the road was fairly clear…
@Daniel - with ya, looking forward to weekday skiing this week.
