As I sit here in the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport awaiting my flight to Seattle via Salt Lake City, I’m annoyed with the weather reports. A massive winter storm blew through the west and southwest last night and continues today, with another potential blizzard forecast for tonight.
While our cabin near Flagstaff gets snowed in and my brother works on his snowmobile in anticipation of rooping in the deep pow, I’ve been getting calls from the crew back home letting me know that once again, the Washington Cascades have been left high and dry. Or maybe I should say it is low and dry, considering the sub-freezing temperatures with not a drop of precipitation in sight.
If the world were a perfect place, I’d be making SLC my final destination, or more specifically, Park City to check out the Coghlan brothers’ new program at the PC Snowboard Academy. I’d even settle for a day of hiking or skinning up at Arizona Snowbowl (which plans to open later this week by the way), followed by a run out to Taos to follow the easterly flow of the storm.
