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Originally Posted by Greg  the natural bump runs, at least grooming would result in skiable terrain. Not that I'm for grooming, but once it gets warm, things bump up on their own rather quickly. It all depends on how good the frozen lines are. If they're nice and uniform, leave them and hope for warmth. |
I agree with this statement here. I guess the reason the thought came up was an experience I had at Saddleback on 3/15. Because of the Rain event, all of the natural trails were crusty garbage. I would classify the natural trails as roughly 50% of their terrain. They had about half of these trails left open and mind you, unmarked as ungroomed and the other half were closed. Here's the thing, there wasn't a thing that resembled a bump line on any of these trails. There was no reason for them at all to be left ungroomed, nothing to be gained by warmer temps and thus half the mountain was unskiable despite a ridiculously deep base.
I'm of the opinion that after a rain event, unless there is a SICK set of bumps already formed, groom it as like you said, things tend to bump up quick in warm weather. Frozen corn bumps, leave em' for warming, but rained on bumps need to be darn good to be left alone for warming IMO.