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This trip to Utah has been incredible. The snow is terrific, the terrain is great, and the people are just downright awesome. I'd say I could die now, but I want to come back to some epic powder days here first.
These past few days at Utah have been that of many firsts for me: my first hike (for turns), my first chute (that I skied), and my first 180 (that I landed).

It's also been a first for me to actually progress--significantly--as a skier. The front side is great and all, but the backside is where skiing is taking me more and more to my limits. I love to charge a groomer as much as anything, but out West, it's all about the terrain...the natural features, the lines that scare you, the snow that is the stuff of legend. This is why I ski.

Although it's March, and many hardcore Utards (sorry, that's what I've heard you called) will snort and turn up their nose at my praise of Utah's conditions, it's better than anything I've skied this year. The Midwest has just been utterly depressing. Even Utah in January was only as good as a 50" base could cover (and that's not much). But this trip...we had 80"-90" of base. We had everything we couldn't ski opened up. We had gorgeous weather. Does it really get any better?

Maybe, and that's why even though I view this trip as one of my most successful, I can't just die and go to heaven yet. I need to take my skills and my newfound courage and experience this same terrain on a powder day. That's going to be epic.

But now, as my season winds down (I'm not giving up on you, yet, Midwest!), I can know that I'm going out on a super high note. I know that I've lived up to most of my potential here in Utah. But I can still progress. And I can still experience those days that people talk about for years and years to come, and know that when my big pow pow day comes, I'll be ready...and have given it my utmost best.

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