Having moved here from Pittsburgh, the only thing October meant to me was candy corn, crazy Steeler fans and beer in plastic jugs at Oktoberfest. Here in Utah it means early season lines and more snow than I knew what to do with.

Motionboy and I went up to Alta to get some preseason shreddage.

Hiking…

More hiking…

Almost there…

After 3 hours we finally made it to our line. I’m not going to say how many times I thought about giving up on life along the way……..(somewhere between 3 and 5)

motionboy ’shredding the gnar’.

Yours truly avoiding a bush.

While we tried to take as many pics as possible we didn’t get any shots of the top where the snow was even deeper. However we did get an artist’s rendering of those events.

It was a most awesome start of the year and opening days are right around the corner! Get those skis or that snowboard waxed and we’ll see ya on the hill mountain.