Euler
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School was closed so the kids and I went skiing for a few hours. There was no hurry to get the goods since the goods were falling from the sky all day! After a leisurely morning at home we arrived at the Carinthia at about 11 and skied 'till 3. Stayed close to Carinthia since riding lifts and traversing in a storm is not my cup of tea.
Claim Jumper trees were the highlight for us...enough base now to ski anywhere in those woods. A year ago I couldn't have skied around trees like that in powder, but now I can hold my own, and man is it fun! Powderific was how my kids described it.
We went over to Beartrap for a couple laps as well...that trail has really shaped up in the past couple weeks. Skiers right was large bumps, a bit icy in the troughs, and thick powder on top. The combination of steep bumps, icy troughs and powder all at the same time proved too much for me, so I moved over to the smooth powder on skiers left. Nice! My 8 yr old owned me by nailing it right down the big bumps on both laps. I wish I had his confidence and innate sense of balance.
We also indulged the little guy with a few runs through the parks. He's been going through the progression of little jumps on moguls, little jumps in the learning park, and is now hitting the smaller jumps in the big boys parks with more and more speed. He loves it, but my heart drops each time I watch him on the approach to one of these things.
We also went down Iron Run again, the upper part isn't quite pitched enough for a powder day, but the lower section was sweet. Steep and very narrow. I practiced hop turns down it.
Precip was snow the whole time we were there, changed to sleet just as we left. There was no crust of any sort on my driveway this morning so I guess we avoided any of the freezing rain I was getting worried about. Probably got somewhere between 8 inches and a foot, but the wind was howling last night so the snow will have been well redistributed with some scoured spots and some knee high drifts by now.
Claim Jumper trees were the highlight for us...enough base now to ski anywhere in those woods. A year ago I couldn't have skied around trees like that in powder, but now I can hold my own, and man is it fun! Powderific was how my kids described it.
We went over to Beartrap for a couple laps as well...that trail has really shaped up in the past couple weeks. Skiers right was large bumps, a bit icy in the troughs, and thick powder on top. The combination of steep bumps, icy troughs and powder all at the same time proved too much for me, so I moved over to the smooth powder on skiers left. Nice! My 8 yr old owned me by nailing it right down the big bumps on both laps. I wish I had his confidence and innate sense of balance.
We also indulged the little guy with a few runs through the parks. He's been going through the progression of little jumps on moguls, little jumps in the learning park, and is now hitting the smaller jumps in the big boys parks with more and more speed. He loves it, but my heart drops each time I watch him on the approach to one of these things.
We also went down Iron Run again, the upper part isn't quite pitched enough for a powder day, but the lower section was sweet. Steep and very narrow. I practiced hop turns down it.
Precip was snow the whole time we were there, changed to sleet just as we left. There was no crust of any sort on my driveway this morning so I guess we avoided any of the freezing rain I was getting worried about. Probably got somewhere between 8 inches and a foot, but the wind was howling last night so the snow will have been well redistributed with some scoured spots and some knee high drifts by now.
