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A week ago the snow really started flyin here in Utah. Before that Salt Lake suffered from a severe high pressure inversion that really stacked up here in the valley. As the inversion shaped up and solidified, all the pacific storms would come in from oregon and washington only to bounce off of us here in utah. A weak storm led the charge and started pushing out the inversion, it didn’t do a very good job and struggled to put snow on the ground…the storm just couldn’t get it cold enough to turn the large amounts of rain into snow. (more…)

After riding my sled so much this past year, I really started to notice the wear a couple thousand miles puts on a sled. I bought my sled with about 1100 miles on it back in August 2005. I have ridden it three seasons and put another 1700 miles on it, this season alone put 600 miles on it. Well, the wear and tear I’m talking about is stuff that you just don’t notice until it finally goes. I didn’t notice that both a-arms had started to bow and weaken until I noticed a crease in my left-lower a-arm. Can’t help my riding addiction, so I kept riding it “just one last ride”. That one last ride turned into 5 more rides…the last ride did me in. (more…)