bdfreetuna
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Last hurrah? Just got over a flu and tired of waiting for perfect weather. I saw a window of 2 warmish days in a row at Jay. Almost everything is open, there's been a little recent snow, and there's a chance of corn.
Started the morning on the groomed (Jet and Haynes were a blast -- and fast). Stayed mostly on the Stateside (sunny) side of the mountain today. Everything had about 1" of velvet snow from yesterday on it which bonded well to just about everything. Groomers were easy to carve and the moguls had a nice texture although they were a bit firm, the stuff in the woods had a lot of big berms around the trees, a lot of fun actually because you can follow the berms pretty safely.
Valhalla off the top was worth a repeat through the 2nd entrance. I am saving a couple of the more challenging runs for tomorrow when it should be warmer and possible corn. Skied Upper River Quai today for the first time though, that was pretty tough. Ice and rocks that were hard to avoid, had to just go for it over a couple sections. But at least I checked it off my list, actually most trails I haven't skied are under the lift. I'm not a show off.. what can I say
Think tomorrow should be even better and I can focus on different terrain. I am saving some of the upper mountain steeper stuff for tomorrow, and also the Canada side which really needs ambient temps, not just sunshine (which it won't get) to soften up. Skied North Glade as last run of the day just to check -- it wasn't as good, yet.
So, hope for Green Beret, Tuckerman's, Everglade and all that tomorrow. It's nice to already have 2/3rds of the mountain checked off my list though. I am not sure if I will ski off the ridge unless it really does corn up, we'll see. Let's say probably not. Face chutes are closed which is a pretty good indicator.
Supposed to get 1-2" here overnight. Zero line for the Tram. Tomorrow is tram day.
Started the morning on the groomed (Jet and Haynes were a blast -- and fast). Stayed mostly on the Stateside (sunny) side of the mountain today. Everything had about 1" of velvet snow from yesterday on it which bonded well to just about everything. Groomers were easy to carve and the moguls had a nice texture although they were a bit firm, the stuff in the woods had a lot of big berms around the trees, a lot of fun actually because you can follow the berms pretty safely.
Valhalla off the top was worth a repeat through the 2nd entrance. I am saving a couple of the more challenging runs for tomorrow when it should be warmer and possible corn. Skied Upper River Quai today for the first time though, that was pretty tough. Ice and rocks that were hard to avoid, had to just go for it over a couple sections. But at least I checked it off my list, actually most trails I haven't skied are under the lift. I'm not a show off.. what can I say
Think tomorrow should be even better and I can focus on different terrain. I am saving some of the upper mountain steeper stuff for tomorrow, and also the Canada side which really needs ambient temps, not just sunshine (which it won't get) to soften up. Skied North Glade as last run of the day just to check -- it wasn't as good, yet.
So, hope for Green Beret, Tuckerman's, Everglade and all that tomorrow. It's nice to already have 2/3rds of the mountain checked off my list though. I am not sure if I will ski off the ridge unless it really does corn up, we'll see. Let's say probably not. Face chutes are closed which is a pretty good indicator.
Supposed to get 1-2" here overnight. Zero line for the Tram. Tomorrow is tram day.
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