...Seasonal Closure

There's no such thing as too much snow. When people asked why I would be spending a winter in Utah following a December graduation from college, my response was always along the lines of: "I need to get skiing out of my system before I settle down and begin my career." Upon my arrival in Utah, my response to the same question warranted a different reaction from those who were currently living in Park City. "Yeah I did the same (diverse variations in numerical values) years ago. Good luck trying to leave." As I am desperately hanging onto my first season in the mountains, I now know what made it so easy for so many people to simply stay put. There's no such thing as too much snow and in a year with an extraordinarily large amount of snowfall, expecting to "get it all out of my system" was not logical or even possible goal. If anything, I've made this uncanny addiction for sliding down the mountain on a couple of boards much worse. As I reflect on my first season, I checked a lot of things off my to-do list here in the Wasatch, but am now realizing the list is larger now than it was upon my arrival. For now, I find closure to the heart of the winter season in photographs...Wolverine Cirque from Mt. Millicent, UT

Looking down Daly Chutes, UTLooking down Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT from Mt. BaldyLooking down Little Chute inbounds at Alta, UTBlower powder day on Jupiter Peak, UTThe Tetons, WYCreating artwork in Milly Bowl, UTCanyons sidecountry powWolverine Cirque, UTPioneer Ridge, UTPioneer Ridge, UTCoalpit Headwall, UTDevil's Castle and Alta from Mt. Wolverine, UTBest in bounds terrain in the US, Big Sky, MTThe Big, MTWolverine Cirque from Mt. Wolverine, UTBrighton periphery, UTPow day outside the Canyons, UTLooking west from Mt. Baldy, UTBaldy Chutes, Alta, UTWhite and Red Pine Gulches, Pfeifferhorn, Thunder Mtn.