Skiing 2021-22: It Went Downhill Fast

A report from the steeps of Colorado and Utah

My Ikon app tells me that, this season, I have ridden 134 lifts, explored 304 trails for 165 miles, and plunged down 174,469 vertical feet in 38.9 hours on skis. My maximum speed was 37mph, which is terrifying. Those stats don’t even include a supremely weird experience (documented below) when I skied along a ridge at 11,000 feet at Alta, in Utah, swipe…