A Day At Alta With The Sony Alpha A55

[Photo-John]

We had a big storm last night and woke up to 6 or 7 inches of wet snow in Salt Lake City. I resigned myself to working through another powder day. So far this year I've had too much work to sneak out for any of the other ones. However, at about 9:30 in the morning, the power went out. My first reaction was a lot of cursing. Then, when it didn't come back on, I went outside to look around, remembering some trees sagging dangerously under the weight of slushy wet snow, last night. I finally called the power company and was told that the power wouldn't be back on until 5:30 this evening. Since that meant the project I was working on was for all intents and purposes, down for the day, I grabbed the Sony Alpha A55 and headed up to the Alta testing facility. What else could I do? I figured that God didn't want me to miss another powder day

The first photo here is looking south at Mt. Timpanogos. The second is my only action shot of the day, a ski instructor with a pupil in the background. The third is a heli-ski helicopter over Little Cottonwood Canyon.