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Originally Posted by Newpylong  Marcski, you sure you weren't a 100 miles north? Lol. Like most days, I was there too. It was more like, don't bother using goggles.... I wouldn't have called it extremely light pow with a thin crust at all though. I would call it an inch of sleet on top of a foot of cement... that wasn't light pow by any shape of the imagination! But, it was better than a day before (some trails completely bare), so who's to complain.
Anyway, I don't know what magic happened overnight, but the snow entirely dried out today and was entirely much better... |
IMHO, here's my take on teh conditions at mt. snow and people's perceptions thereof. I never came across 1" of crust. Never, the entire day. Granted, I spent most of the day in the woods. Like I said, earlier, there was a crust...but it made for a nice sound in the quiet of the woods.
The powder, (which the mtn reported at 15") was very light and fluffy beneath the thin crust. Again, I have a built-in scraper on my gloves, and it was needed on the goggles until about 11 a.m.
I think, if people were having problems with the conditions, to put it simply...they just weren't keeping their tips pointed downhill. In other words they were overcompensating with all the snow by overturning....putting too much weight on the downhill ski and coming across the trail and thus encountering the lower layer of hardpack/ice. (BTW, I'm not sure if you all realize, just how much rain they had earlier this week?) Powder skiing requires one's weight to be more evenly balanced over both skis, with subtle movements of the feet to put the skis on edge. These days, with fatter, more shapely skis, the skis do most of the work. Once one has obtained this skill, .powder skiing is truly effortless...which it was on saturday at Mt. Snow.
Oh and reefer, I have skied mt. snow for many many years. I have not skied it much in the past 5 years, but usually get a few days in every year.