Today was my first visit to Solitude Mtn. Resort this winter. One of my favorite things about visiting Solitude is the drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon. I fell in love with this canyon several years ago during a brief work stint up at Solitude. I came to know it intimately. I saw its many moods–weather changing at the drop of a hat, light pouring from the sky–you know, all the good stuff.
Enough reminiscing. Today was downright cold, but enjoyabe nonetheless. Solitude opened up the Summit chair for the first time this year, and although still a bit thin in spots, there is plenty of soft snow to be had. One of my biggest frustrationsn when shooting on days like today is the flat, boring light. It’s tough to register any definition in the snow. Texture is lost, and it looks in most images as though the skier is simply knifing into a blank, detail-less canvas or under an uninteresting, milky sky.
Enter Solitude’s tall pines and dense forests. It gives me something to work with when there is little else. Although today’s images are likely not up to publishable standards, it’s always great to get out, give the muscles a workout, and hone your shooting skills in terrible weather. If you can shoot in 30 mph winds, with spindrift freezing to your eyebrows and clogging your viewfinder, then you’ll likely do just fine in those “perfect” conditions when that cover shot plants itself in front of your lens. Here’s to more storms, and bluebird days after the fact…
Daryn Edmunds airing it out at Solitude Mtn. Resort
Daryn Edmunds sampling some pow at Solitude Mtn. Resort
Daryn Edmunds threads the needle in the Headwall Forest at Solitude Mtn. Resort
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look pretty damn good to me- i would publish them