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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (7650)12/4/1998 4:00:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar  Read Replies (1) of 9980
 
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Alta is nice, but the vert is only on the order of 2K top to bottom, whereas the Bird is 3+K, albeit slightly lower in the canyon hence of a lessor powder quality by Utah standards (tradeoffs are painful). I've been skiing in those canyons for about 25 years now so I've seen them in all kinds of conditions. One of my most memorable Alta experiences was the time I entered High Rustler in fog over icy moguls, made two turns, lost it, and my friends collected the pieces and reunited these with me when they found what was left of my body down near the rope tow traverse. A really nice line is the traverse up to Gun Sight Notch. There's a huge bowl accessed there but my favorite deep powder run is Dalton's Draw under the tram over at Snowbird. You have to follow the ridge line of the Circ all the way to the mid towers point to find the entrance - quite a trip in and of itself. Recently they've logged near the top to ease the entry. My friends and I are really bummed about this.

Relating this to Asia, I have been thinking lately that there might be some other area of the world that could have a snow quality and terrain that matched Utah. An Aussie I once had the pleasure of skiing with in NSW Thredbow told me that Las Lenas in Argentina was comparable but I've been thinking that somewhere between Nepal and Mongolia one ought to be able to find such a place. I've started hunting up info on Mongolia but the travel agency that I've contacted in Ulaan Baatar hasn't responded about winter travel seems they are more geared for horse trekking in the summer months. Decades ago in my early military reserve days I came across a navigational sectional on a C141 at Travis that was a map of Western China region, what in the heck that aerial map was doing on that plane I'll never know. I was blown away by the vastness. It looked like hundreds of miles square all above 20K feet elev. There must be some powder skiing in there too! Come to think of it, China fits nicely between Nepal and Mongolia. I wonder how one says "where is the ski lift ?" in the regional Chinese dialect.
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