The worst!
By Brad | December 18, 2008
I lived in the Canyon, I wrote The Powder Hound’s Guides, but then I moved away. My closest touch with my favorite pitches at Snowbird now comes from the daily snow report. It’s best that I don’t check it, but I can’t resist. When I do and I see that it’s snowed nearly a foot overnight, and at about 11 degrees to boot, I am for a moment thrilled–and then plunged into deep depression. Not the kind of depression you make when your tip catches a willow branch in Wilbere Bowl, the kind that they treat with drugs and counseling. Making it worse is the fact that here in Santa Cruz we’re experiencing a fall surf season of epic disappointment.
This is the time of year when conditions get really good. Most mornings the wind is light or nonexistent. And usually we get swells from a regular series of storms marching across the North Pacific. Not this year. There have been a few good swells, including one Saturday morning when a west swell hit from just the right direction to put the best of the north coast big wave spots into their zone of maximum potential. Scotts Creek was epic, Mavericks was epic and, when the tide dropped, every reef point on the West Side fired. But this week there has been no surf at all. The whole of Monterrey Bay a sheet of glass, perfect conditions, but literally no rideable surf.
See for yourself. Go here You’ll see that Steamer Lane is dead flat–an extremely rare occurence, believe me.
No swell and no Snowbird. That’s the worst!
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Snowbird is open!
By Brad | November 8, 2008
Snowbird opened today and this year it’s not just a ribbon of snow connecting Regulator Johnson with the bottom of the mountain. The whole thing isn’t open yet, but what is is good and the outlook is even better! Snow Sunday!
My favorite image of the day is the snowcam Check the 24 hour loop and watch as the snow settles and stabilizes. We love a good base!
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About
By Brad | November 7, 2008
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird is a trail guide that names, rates and provides directions in and out of every one of Snowbird’s important powder runs. There are no restaurant reviews, descriptions of nightlife or any of that. It’s a guidebook for skiers and snowboarders who want to find their way to the best terrain that Snowbird has to offer and who want to know the names of Snowbird’s myriad pitches, runs, chutes, access gates, and traverses.
The book was designed to help newcomers to Snowbird quickly find terrain that suits their abilities. It also aims to help those familiar with Snowbird’s terrain learn the often obscure–and changing–names for the various runs.
The book is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ perfect bound paperback with 144 pages of information. There are 32 black and white panoramic photos of Snowbird’s terrain with captions that point to almost every one of the runs, traverses, lift lines and avalanche gates. The book describes over 250 runs; the official Snowbird ski map shows just 60.
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Thanks for your purchase!
By Brad | April 4, 2008
Thanks for your order of one or more of the following:
I sell all three and use the same PayPal account to process the orders. All the orders use this acknowledgment page. You will be receiving an email from PayPal with a receipt for your purchase shortly. (If you don’t, something went wrong with the order. Call me if you can’t figure it out).
I’ll get your purchase in the mail right away. I ship via USPS First Class mail, which claims that it will deliver the product within four business days. If it doesn’t show up in a week, please call me at 831 332 6069.
Thanks again,
Brad Asmus
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By Brad | April 4, 2008
You may purchase directly from me using a credit card or PayPal. All payment transactions are handled by PayPal (when you click the Pay Now button, you are taken to their secure site), and then I ship directly to you. Free shipping when you buy here.
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird
144 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″, perfect bound.
ISBN 9780980131819
$25.00
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Skiing Alta
160 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″, perfect bound
ISBN 9780980131802
$25.00
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Buy both Powder Hound’s Guides at the same time and save ten bucks!
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird and The Powder Hound’s Guide to Skiing Alta
$40.00 for the set, shipping via First Class Mail included
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Other Ski Area Trail Guides
By Brad | March 13, 2008
As far as I know, there are only five books devoted to describing ski areas in North America.
The first is The Powder Hound’s Guide to Skiing Alta. It names, describes and shows every one of the important powder runs at Alta. I wrote it. It’s a great book. If you want to ski Alta, you should get it before you go. If you ski Alta, you can use it to learn the more obscure run names. You’ll also want a copy to look at during the summer or when your skiing days are done to remind yourself of just what an epic place it is.
I didn’t write them, but I love them anyway. The Ski and Snowbird Guide to Whistler Blackomb Advanced/Expert Edition and Beginner/Intermediate editions can really save you a lot of time and frustration as you try to find terrain you like at this giant resort. I used the Advanced edition on my first trip, found my way to Spanky’s Ladder and skiied untracked steep stuff within a half hour of getting on the lift. Without the book, I doubt I’d ever have found it. To buy direct go to Quickdraw Publications.
Click here for the Beginner/Intermediate edition.
Ski & Snowboard Guide to Whistler Blackcomb: Intermediate Edition
Once you get my two books you’ll have almost all of the good powder terrain in Little Cottonwood Canyon covered. Almost, but not all. For that, you’ll need to get a copy of The Chuting Gallery by Andrew McLean. It describes the best of the out-of-bounds chutes in Little Cottonwood and nearby terrain. It was written right after I published my Alta guide in 1992 and was out of print even longer than my book. The only place you can get it is at the AltaStore.
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About The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird
By Brad | March 12, 2008
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird is a trail guide that names, rates and provides directions in and out of every one of Snowbird’s important powder runs. There are no restaurant reviews, descriptions of nightlife or any of that. It’s a guidebook for skiers and snowboarders who want to find their way to the best terrain that Snowbird has to offer and who want to know the names Snowbird’s myriad pitches, runs and traverses that they encounter.
The book was designed to help newcomers to Snowbird quickly find terrain that suits their abilities. It also aims to help those familiar with Snowbird’s terrain learn the often obscure–and changing–names for the various runs.
The book is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ perfect bound paperback with 144 pages of information. There are 32 black and white panoramic photos of Snowbird’s terrain with captions that point to the runs, traverses, lift lines and avalanche gates. The book describes over 250 runs; the official Snowbird ski map shows just 60.
The book sells for $24.95 although it is available at a promotional price of $19.95 at retail outlets at Snowbird and Alta (and through their on-line stores).
The book was written by Brad Asmus who is also the author of The Powder Hound’s Guide to Skiing Alta. Dusty Sackett, a 30 year member of the Snowbird Ski Patrol, contributed his considerable expertise to The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird.
The Powder Hound’s Guide to Snowbird and The Powder Hounds Guide to Skiing Alta are published by Four Mile Press. Our motto: Stay out of trouble or find it fast!
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