skiing JUPITER PEAK at PARK CITY!

What's going on squad, welcome back to another episode of season 4. Look, there's not a singular cloud to be found here in the sky. This is like picturesque Windex Bluebird day here in Utah. Fresh snow over the past 24 hours. Absolutely incredible visibility. Just yeah, one of those days where you'd be, you know, tough not to go out. Got the White Walker 121s on, which I think might be a mistake. But the only way to learn how to use a ski is to use it in all conditions. So let's go. Yesterday it snowed about like a foot, I'm going to say. But it was a very wet and warm storm. It mostly even rained down at the base in the town of Park City. So I'm optimistic. The top of the mountain, you know, it's snow. But the question is, is it heavy? Is it wet? And with all the rain, did it create like this sort of freezing ice layer underneath? So that's why I'm a little bit tentative with the White Walkers. I find the place where they don't do well is when you have like hard snow and icy conditions. They're really meant for just snow, like pow is what I'm trying to get at. So the JJs could be a better option today. But I don't want to make any assessment until we get all the way up to the top and see what the top of the mountain has to offer. But right now it looks pretty good. Gonna be a sick day. Let's go. We made it. Jupiter Park City. D-Zone. Looks beautiful. It does look a little tracked out. So they must have had this open yesterday. But I think we'll be able to find some fun stuff. And yeah, basically just enjoying the sunshine today. That's kind of what it's all about. And then I think towards the end of the day, we will do a Jupiter Peak hike. Show you guys that in a little bit more detail. And it's always a fun way to do a like a top to bottom deal there. So I know I see this area a lot in this zone here at Park City. But it really is my favorite. I think there's just a bunch of lappable terrain. Nothing's like crazy steep or crazy difficult. But it is just a nice cruising day. But still having some sort of difficulty to it. Lots of love for this zone here at Park City. All right. Nice. Let's see what we can find. All this terrain looks so much different with all this snow. That says S1. It's pretty tight in here. If you ask me. Okay. Man, it's deep though. It's super deep. Wow. It is so much harder to ski this. Let's pop through this hole. Dude, where am I? Okay. Dude, what? Oh, I lost the pole. No. I feel like I'm on a whole different mountain. Got it. All right, guys. Honestly, this is a total exploration run. I've never dropped here. There's no tracks. Which makes me think it might not be the best idea. But I think if I just go like straight fall line. I should be able to get out of here. But obviously got to go slow. This is how you learn. Oh. Oh, nice. Hell yeah. What does this say? IC. So we have an IC mark. Does that stand for indicator? Dude, it actually looks pretty gnarly. Like good in a good way. Let's go. Nice. Hell yeah. I think I just hit a tree. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Dude, let's go. All right. Here's a little tricky. Oh. All right here. Okay. Damn. Dude, that was fun. I see a hole. I go here. Here. Protect the face. And we're out. Let's go. Oh, where did I come out? Dude, that actually the easiest one. I'm honestly just trying to explore the whole indicator area, which if you're unfamiliar with that, it's essentially a huge clump of trees from, you could argue from like main bowl to war zone or like the west face. And in between, I feel like there's a few marked runs. You have like silver cliffs, you have six bells, and you do have kind of a proper indicator area. But for the most part, it's relatively like a no man's land. So trying to explore the different shoots, if you can call them that, in areas is kind of just what I stumbled on today. I guess that's what I'm doing. So that last one was really, really nice. I found like an IC tag on the tree. And it's kind of like the most vert you can get in that area. So I'm going to try one more, a little bit closer to the silver cliffs area. And that way we'll have a pretty good feel for this area. What's up, man? How you doing? Yeah, let's do it. What's your name? Wallen, nice to meet you, man. Oh, yeah. Nice to meet you, man. You having a good day? Sure. Yeah, man. It's good. First bluebird day in a while. So later be safe. Honestly, just can't get over how beautiful it is today. Just one of those days. And that's like the backside of Brighton. All the way into there is like the Heber Valley. You can see the Uintas. And then right down into Park City. Give it a whirl. Oh, my God. Look at that first hit, dude. All right. Make sure the camera's clear for y'all. Snow power away. Okay. Looks pretty good once I get in there. Make that turn. All right. Bear with me. Oh, dude. Look, I found. Looks kind of untracked. Was I just here? Oh, face. Oh, oh, oh, oh, we're not done. We must get out. Oh, God. Oh, it closed in on me. That was fun. Oh, we'll take it. Oh, we'll take it again. Oh, dude. What? Look how deep it is in here. Over the tree. All right. I think we made a total of three turns there. Borderline reckless, but the pile just has me juiced up. I was not expecting. So much untracked. I got to do that again now. Holy jeepernutters. Wow. Guys, I ran over that tree. And when I ran over it, it sprang back up and like, whipped me in the butt, dude. Right in the butt cheek. Well, before it gets too late here in the day, I am going to work my way up to the peak, Jupiter Peak. Beautiful day to hike. I think they just opened it today, so we might even get some fresh snow. And just one of my favorites to do here at Park City. Good thing I have my White Walker ULs because the skis are a lot easier, a lot lighter than any other ski in my quiver. It's also a beautiful day. I don't think there's any wind. So if you're going to hike, today's the day to hike. There's really two main ways to access the peak here at Park City. One of them is from McConkie's Chair, which I think is a little bit shorter on the distance end, but it is a lot steeper. And then off the Jupiter side, a little bit farther, but it's a lot more mellow, especially when you have this much snow. So I always prefer doing it from the Jupiter side because I'm usually up here anyways, but I've done it plenty of times from McConkie's as well. I swear I say this about all the mountain ranges that I find myself in, whether it's the Cascades, the Tetons, the Saltus, but I do think the Wasatch is one of the most beautiful ranges I've ever been in, especially on a clear day like this. Wow, some of those peaks are just beautiful, but we are almost there. And you know you've made it when you reach the toboggan and the peace flags up here at the top of Jupiter Peak, the very top of Park City Mountain. So like I said, one of the cool things about Jupiter Peak is that it's one of the few areas, I think it's the only area where you can go like a proper top to bottom, so you could literally ski from here all the way down to the base, which is what we're gonna end up doing. Damn, looks like there's a fracture there and there's a bunch of debris over there. Cornice seems a little bit iffy. Almost looks like there might be a little better entrance right here. Oh yeah, this is easy. Not a mandatory air, but kind of like a... Reminds me of like a crazy drop-in. Oh, you could even get it up top. You know, I'm not super like familiar with the zone here. I have skied this a few times, but here we go. Sunshine. Oh man, beautiful run. What happens if we come in here? That's this peak. You could hit this guy, I think. Jeez, the semi-seas, dude. They don't let you down. That's why these skis are just like butter, dude. So easy to turn and stuff like that. Every time I ski Jupiter Peak, I find something else to ski. Dude, that was a fun line. I'm kind of proud of myself for that. I just feel like that was some of the first signs of spring skiing, although I was still with my 121 White Walker, so spring skiing with fat pow boards is a good sign. I feel like I had the most fun I've had in a long time out there skiing. And then to address the speed on my tracker, the last run to the base here near Silver Star is a pretty steep groomer, and I just sort of straight lined it. I mean, I didn't think it felt 65 miles an hour because I feel like I had more in the tank, but you know, I wasn't trying to get hurt or go excessively fast there. But there was no one around, so I just put them straight and let them go. But I think we could have hit 70 if we really wanted to. So thank you guys for watching. I'll see all of you guys in the next episode. Hope you guys enjoyed. Thank you for being here. Thanks for the support. Peace out.