A moguls universe

Moguls have never been seem so plentiful, so big and so deep than this season. So why is it, you might ask?

The answer is easy, with no significant snow in now six weeks, slopes have been intensely eroded by the skiers and snowboarders and nothing has been able to fill the holes on mogul fields and the wind had no chance to spread any new snow on that bumpy surface and bring back the dimpled slopes to their more normal conditions. 

Of course, there are snow-cats or groomers, so what are they doing? Well, very little. Moguls on steep terrain are made of snow several month old and that is now wearing thin and also super dry and lacks the humidity, and hence the cohesion, that would normally make it “workable” by most groomers and would in the process, at best dislodge rocks and bring them to the finished, groomed surface. 

So ugly and unskiable moguls are here to stay until some significant snow starts falling, but as we get closer to March, time seems to be running out! At least this provides those skiers with strong enough knees to challenge themselves on never-seen-before mega-moguls until the ski area closes the run that have become too dangerous because the moguls are so deep and so sharp. 

Of course, on many highly traveled runs like Apex, Mercury, or Copperhead, to name a few, Park City Mountain shouldn’t have played “chicken” and have produce the made man-made snow required on these popular run so they could be worked with grooming equipment. Next blog, we’ll dig deeper into the world of moguls if there’s still some snow left…