Foothill Freak's Backcountry Skiing Blog

It wasn’t the fourth of July, but it felt like a celebration anyway. Starting our descent down Alta’s Baldy Chute around noon, the snow was perfect corn, resembling a giant cone of smooth Hawaiian shave ice. The lower parts were slightly less than stellar, but skiing in the chute was as good as you could [...]

Reason number one: Today I read this headline on washingtonpost.com “Cheney Pushes for More Drilling”. What more evidence do you need? But wait, there is more! In the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper today Utah senators claim that a ban on domestic oil shale development “imperils the nation’s hopes for energy independence.”