Jcb890
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What a day!
A drive that is normally 3 hours long took 4, but it was well worth it. I awoke to a driveway covered in snow and dealt with the bad roads and slow traffic. Unfortunately I didn't plan for that, so we got there at 9 instead of 7:30 for first chair like I had hoped. I'm not sure exactly how much snow fell at the mountain, but it seemed like quite a bit. One observation I had was that the mountain needed that natural snowfall. I still saw some grass and sticks and some thin cover in spots. It snowed pretty steadily until around 1 or so I think it was.
I started off from Ramshead at around 9:45 am and headed over to the K1 Gondola. There was a decent sized line, but it didn't take too long in the singles line. From the summit I went down Bear Trax and followed a couple of snowboarders who ducked some ropes and wound up on Wildfire (Bear Mountain) which was un-groomed, un-touched and appeared to have around a foot of fresh fluffy snow. The trip was worth it just for that. I didn't get any photos sadly. People were ducking ropes left and right and it looked like Ski Patrol dropped some ropes as well.
After that I worked back over to Ramshead and met up with my wife for some runs over there. The snow on Ramshead stayed nice and soft all day in most spots. I did notice some of the steeper trails were getting windblown and ski'd off by early afternoon. Superstar was pretty nice, but by the time I rode it around 1 pm, the snow was getting a bit windblown and ski'd off. Some turns were soft, some were pretty icy.
All-in-all a great way to spend 1 of our M.A.X. Pass tickets and some amazing early season weather.
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A drive that is normally 3 hours long took 4, but it was well worth it. I awoke to a driveway covered in snow and dealt with the bad roads and slow traffic. Unfortunately I didn't plan for that, so we got there at 9 instead of 7:30 for first chair like I had hoped. I'm not sure exactly how much snow fell at the mountain, but it seemed like quite a bit. One observation I had was that the mountain needed that natural snowfall. I still saw some grass and sticks and some thin cover in spots. It snowed pretty steadily until around 1 or so I think it was.
I started off from Ramshead at around 9:45 am and headed over to the K1 Gondola. There was a decent sized line, but it didn't take too long in the singles line. From the summit I went down Bear Trax and followed a couple of snowboarders who ducked some ropes and wound up on Wildfire (Bear Mountain) which was un-groomed, un-touched and appeared to have around a foot of fresh fluffy snow. The trip was worth it just for that. I didn't get any photos sadly. People were ducking ropes left and right and it looked like Ski Patrol dropped some ropes as well.
After that I worked back over to Ramshead and met up with my wife for some runs over there. The snow on Ramshead stayed nice and soft all day in most spots. I did notice some of the steeper trails were getting windblown and ski'd off by early afternoon. Superstar was pretty nice, but by the time I rode it around 1 pm, the snow was getting a bit windblown and ski'd off. Some turns were soft, some were pretty icy.
All-in-all a great way to spend 1 of our M.A.X. Pass tickets and some amazing early season weather.
![20161217_132909.jpg 20161217_132909.jpg](https://forums.alpinezone.com/data/attachments/13/13204-b69acc993c07cd32ea012eda36be6654.jpg)
![20161217_124235.jpg 20161217_124235.jpg](https://forums.alpinezone.com/data/attachments/13/13203-f73c3b0fa919963ade7ac7d549131c34.jpg)
![20161217_104812.jpg 20161217_104812.jpg](https://forums.alpinezone.com/data/attachments/13/13202-f63778a7c18f200003b3c758bd3248ce.jpg)
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