Picto Diary - 22 to 31 March 2018 - Cushings Cabin Pensees

Above: Bishop, Bud, Esresso, Stockli, Montage. Deer Valley. 23 March 2017.

Above: Bishop, Grrr, Z, Espresso. Deer Valley. 24 March 2018.

Above: Wasatch Back, from Home Run ski run, Deer Valley, UT.
25 March 2018.

Above: Jordanelle Reservoir. From atop Jordanelle ski run. Deer Valley, UT.
25 March 2018.

Above: (two images). You know its Spring when Bishop gets a front row parking place
and when skiers arrive via motorcycle. Deer Valley, UT. 26 March 2018.

Above: Bill Rock, General Manager Park City Mountain ski resort speaks to La Societe
Deux Magots (LSDM) 27 March 2018.

Park City 2018/2019 Projects.

1. Replace current fixed chair High Meadow Lift with high speed lift.
2. Snowmaking upgrade for Red Mountain Road.
3. Cloud Dine Restaurant. Enlarge. 200 additional seats.
4. Mid Mountain Restaurant. Internal retrofit. Add bar.

Rock: Despite overall season lower snow fall, our on mountain snow condition today is better than
it was this time last year.

Above: Starbucks. American Fork, UT. 27 March 2018.

Nervous entering the store, I was relieved to find the corner seat.

Above: Bishop, Mezzanine, Montage, Meg, Dallas, Kahuna. Atop Lady Morgan Lift.
Deer Valley, UT, 27 March 2018.

Above: Stockli and Bishop. Ruby Lift. Deer Valley, UT. 28 March 2018.

Above: Cushings Cabin. Deer Valley, UT 31 March 2018.

Day 31.
16 runs.
Chatted with Golf at breakfast

Cushings Cabin Pensees

1. Shouldn't lower Little Stick, a "green," be widened? It's a tough run for anyone when icy or hard.

2. Among the most amusing of lift experiences: Listening to a male opining about skiing to two accompanying adoring, fawning females, when he doesn't have a clue of what he's talking about.

3. Saying "on your left (right)" as you approach a downhill skier is an act of rudeness. Ski rules say, "down hill skier has the right of way. It is your duty to avoid him (not discombobulate him with an unexpected cry from his unseen rear)."

4. Corollary to above: While skiing, look uphill and hand signal any significant direction change likely to spook a following skier. Not a rule, but a wise precaution.

5. Singles line, Carpenter (4 seat chair). Female skier, first in line, blocking entry into main lift line, with me second in line, jabbers personal stuff with liftie (female) as one twosome and one threesome trudge by (three open, now empty, seats). Not wanting to interrupt the jabbering ladies, I attempted to slip under the rope into the adjacent empty feeder lane. I was roundly stopped in this attempt by the loquacious liftie. Chastened, I returned to the singles line, whereupon the talkative girls resumed their conversation. After another 20 seconds, and 4 or 5 more empty chairs, the girls' colloquy ended, and, I was allowed to ski into the main lift line.

TIMDT Update, 31 March 2018

Post fall off Deer Valley's Wasatch Lift  get off a month ago. She goes to physical therapy twice a week and to her trainer at the Waldorf Astoria spa, three times weekly. She's move from two crutches to one crutch and is more optimistic about functioning normally sans ACL.

Addendum:

 

Leave it to your observant spouse to point out where you need to improve your personal hygiene, appearance, diction, behavior, weight gain, diet failings, etc, I do, and it works for me. Going on 65 years of trying to improve.

Ohl,
Phoenix, AZ

 

Thank you for the emails.

I hope to read soon that you both are well!

Sandy,
Seattle, WA