Smith goggles worth the hike . . . even in the heat of summer
Posted by
Ski Utah Yeti
on June 30, 2010
It is very difficult to retrace your winter footsteps in the summer. With that said, I was determined to find my beloved Smith goggles and Dakine beanie lost in a yard sale, ski crash this past February. My friends were quick to tell me that I would never find the lost pieces. They reminded me that since the crash, four months had passed while 300 inches of snow had fallen and since melted.
Against all odds, I walked uphill, trying to retrace the events that took place four months earlier. I skirted by a red fox and a buck, climbed over rock after rock until I felt that I was in the “right” spot. I scanned the slopes near Alta, and suddenly my eye was caught by a white, Dakine beanie lying on the ground. Triumph, I really couldn’t believe that I had navigated the summer slopes to find my winter gear. However, my goggles were not with the beanie. I knew the goggles couldn’t be far away, so I combed the area for 10 more minutes. Sure enough, a shiny object down in the bushes drew my attention. Scrambling downhill quickly, I was reunited with all of the items that I “yard saled” four months before.
You gotta love our winter past time, because even in the middle of summer, my attachment to goggles and a beanie sent me on an adventure and allowed me to relive a few turns from this past winter in Utah.
Please share your ridiculous tales of finding lost gear.
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I lost a pair of ear rings in Alta on a powder day coming off the high traverse. I found them the next summer under a rock 30 feet down hull from where they blew off!
Great job not letting anything go to waste Yeti. Way to recycle those goggles. I too love to hike the ski areas in the summer. It’s pretty fun coming across those clearings in threes and picturing yourself stumbling across the same clearing in middle of the winter and how it would be all untracked and how all those rocks and bushes would be under a deep blanket of snow. When I was little, I liked to walking under the chairs in the summer and finding stuff. I would exclaim things like: “Look! I found a broken ski pole!”
I lost my ipod at snowbasin a couple years ago. On my first run no less (waste deep powder). I took a hike the following june I found a very old cell phone, a walkie talkie but no ipod. About a month later a couple called me telling me they had found it (I had scratched my number and first name on the back)I tried to give them $20 for it, they were having none of it! There ARE still good people in the world
so sweet. Once I lost my glove on a chair lift, and when I went back in the summer, I didn't find it. But I did find Rossignol XXX, which was a perfect match, since my buddy backup over my setup that winter, killing only one of my Rossi XXX. Same length and even with the killer Rossi turntable binder on it. Crazy right?
Ha Ha! That is awesome B-Ott. I love this story.
One fall I lost my favorite beanie at a friends house. In the spring their dog went to the back yard, dug it out of the garden where he had buried it, and returned it to me with great pride. What a dog!
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I lost a pair of ear rings in Alta on a powder day coming off the high traverse. I found them the next summer under a rock 30 feet down hull from where they blew off!