Intact with boots and skis.  Snowbird is offering a $60 summer pass that gives you privileges to the Tram with your ski equipment, along with specialty activities, like the mechanical bull and zip line.  As skiers, we were the definite outcasts on the plaza deck, amidst the mob of families clad in red, white, and blue.  From the plaza deck skiing is unimaginable, with only mini smart car sized patches of snow still remaining on some shady north facing slopes.  But with a tram ride to the top and minimal effort necessary to get to the top of the Baldy Chutes, any lack of motivation did not impede on our adventure.  Apparently 100 degree weather in the valley and a good start to biking season didn't demotivate a handful of other skiers we found once we got to the top of Baldy.  The "tie-dye twins", known infamously for skiing around Little Cottonwood all winter in tye-dyed t-shirts and board shorts, greeted us at the top telling us that they didn't expect to see anyone else up on the peak that day and the first person they encountered that day they ambushed with an artillery of rocks, mistaking him for a moose.  We skied Main Chute into Alta, a long anticlimactic run.  Even the anticlimax, superfluous distribution of sun cups, and a few 100 ft plus dirt skis, didn't make me wish I was sitting in the valley, sweating and wishing it was January. 

Peace Out,