After getting rained out in Fruita, we headed back to Utah where the NWS was forecasting a foot or two of snow.  Early Monday morning we put on boots and skins by headlamp and discovered that between the three of us we knew quite a few of the other folks doing the same thing in the parking lot around us.  It had snowed two feet overnight but cleared and now the stars were fading into the dawn.  Grant, Dustin and I skied a deep, bluebird lap down Monte Cristo and were headed back down LCC by 8am.

Back home from skiing, Grant and I loaded his truck with the bikes and car camping gear we’d just unloaded the night before and headed a 140 miles East to Vernal, Utah.  By lunchtime we were back in tee shirts and shorts, riding bikes in the red desert.