Snowboarding at Alta? Sign me up!
An early snow season means hiking season just got a whole lot more intense. Instead of hiking with an intense pack, sweating the entire time and swatting away bugs, I put on some snow-pants, tie up my snowboarding boots, strap a snowboard to my pack, grab my poles, and head up the mountain! Most people prefer to skin up, and that’s because basically every hardcore skier in Utah has a front country and backcountry ski setup. I don’t have that yet….but maybe I will soon!
Happy to hike up and slide down! 
It was a little foggy down near the base.
The day started by driving through a rather foggy canyon. I was actually a little worried that visibility was going to be pretty detrimental and I wouldn’t get a change to snowboard. I’ve never seen fog this intense in Salt Lake before! I arrived at the base of the mountain, and the thick fog was still present. Check out the photo below to see how bad it was! Utah had a few days of warming temperatures, and a little bit of rain at the lower elevations. It likely was just moving through the mountains. The air was still cool, and made for a great hike.
As I ascended more and more in elevation, the fog became thinner, and eventually, I breached the fog layer, and was looking out over the beautiful Albion Basin. I’d never actually seen Alta from this angle with snow covering the mountains, for obvious snowboard related reasons. It was so stunning! I may need to rent skis and go to Alta once or twice this season….
The ride down was awesome, and the snow was pretty good there, too! Alta is usually one of the first resorts skiers will hit during preseason since there’s so many great features here. I just had to try it once! And, in fact, a few days later, I went here with my friend Andrew and we had a blast. The snow was pretty fair for most of the mountain, and the conversation up was awesome, too! Up until this trip, I had done all of this by myself. Now, I’ve got a buddy for future trips!
That’s all from me today. I hope this was a fun one to read! There will be more skiing and snowboarding focused blogs in the future….I promise you that!
Parting shot:
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Justin Fague 
Sounds fun and a good way to stay active and enjoy the outdoors in the winter. I’m still waiting for our first snowfall of the year.
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It’s fantastic! I love it so much! We need to get more snow for our opening days later this month!
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Great photos of the mountains!! I love to take my boys hiking in the snow- and we hike up and sled down! Lol can’t wait for them to get a little bigger so we can start them skiing!
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Thank you! These hikes were amazing! Yeah, once you can ski with them, a whole different ball game is opened up! Thanks for tagging along 🙂
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