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Sunset Boulevard

Jim Harris — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:54:08 +0000

Kicking off this long weekend, the Avett Brothers concert turned out to be a rowdy, high-impact type of night. On Saturday morning Allison and were moving half-speed. Rather than motivate to head out for a long ride we drank agua by the liter and tinkered with bikes. Finally we rallied for a night ride on the Wasatch Crest Trail. The sunset was fiery and as the light faded we turned on bike lights and rolled into the dark. One might...

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Sunrise Ride

Jim Harris — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:44:00 +0000

The last couple days in Park City have felt like fall. Yesterday morning started off with a literal bang as thunder boomed over the ridgeline so we postponed our plans for a sunrise ride. Today we were out the before sunup and had the trails to ourselves. After yesterday’s rain and snow, the trails were smooth, tacky, and fast.

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Wasatch Perverse Traverse

Jim Harris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:38:50 +0000

“Ha! You’ve got to be kidding me!” was Noah’s email response to a note I’d sent asking if he wanted to link up Mt Olympus with Twin Peaks. He attached a map with a red line he’d just then been drawing that connected Olympus to Twin Peaks to Lone Peak. My first thought when I saw Noah’s map was “That’s huge!” my second thought was “…well maybe.” Yesterday morning we left the car at 4:30am and started up Mt Olympus....

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Timp’er Tantrum

Jim Harris — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:23:54 +0000

Ty and I slogged 5k’ up from car for 4k’ of creamed corn skiing. The tour wrapped up with a character-building ‘schwack back to the car.

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Dawn Patrolin’

Jim Harris — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:47:15 +0000

Ty, Ian and I met long before sunrise this morning, hoping to be the first to the top of Mt Superior for some powder skiing. It doesn’t take many mornings out in Little Cottonwood to realize that there’s a whole posse of folks who ski the south face of Superior at sunup before heading into office. It’s a testament to an early alarm clock wakeup and some good luck to actually see the face untracked below one’s ski tips in...

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Hotlaps

Jim Harris — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:38:24 +0000

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Amac Attack

Jim Harris — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:14:02 +0000

Andrew, Courtney and I managed to ski about seventeen varieties of ” snow” today including smooth chalky powder, zipper crust, breakable crust, supportable crust, fresh avalanche debris, old avalanche chunder, corn, corn’d avalanche debris and finally just above the car, bottomless mank.

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Doomed

Jim Harris — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:06:42 +0000

Foiled for the umpteenth time at skiing Timp, I settled instead for a tour through the sheep pen. Pete and I hitched a ride from the mouth of Big Cottonwood to Alta and that alone has the potential to turn an average ski day into an adventure. For the record Mom, my ratio of good experiences to bad while hitchhiking in Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons are about 25:1, maybe higher. Our driver, an older gent, 2nd geared up LCC...

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