Day 1: Thanksgiving
The mountain was empty! Ski on the lifts every run. The light was a little flat and they were making snow, so some of the terrain was a bit hard to read. But they had a number of top to bottoms open with good coverage. We skied a whole bunch of runs, had a "happy first day" drink at the Cuzzins, then headed over to vcunnings for turkey.
Day 2:
Hopefully vcunning or drjeff will chime in. I eneded up stacking a cord of firewood and putting up some Christmas stuff with my wife. We did see the crew at drjeff's place that night for his b-day. Good times!
Day 3:
A bit cloudy and a bit more crowded. The top of Long John was really scratchy! So was Upper Cascade. I guess they got a little wet precip early Friday and that set up with the cooler temps. Once you got past the icy areas, the trails were good. The only issue were the crowds. It wasn't busy...still pretty much ski on to the lifts, but everyone was going down the same few top to bottom trails.
All in all though, a good day. It's great to be out skiing this early in the season.
They've fired up the fan guns on Snowdance, Ridge and Nitro and they went all day from what I can tell. Hopefully, they'll drop some ropes tomorrow and have a few more runs open. I'll report back.
The mountain was empty! Ski on the lifts every run. The light was a little flat and they were making snow, so some of the terrain was a bit hard to read. But they had a number of top to bottoms open with good coverage. We skied a whole bunch of runs, had a "happy first day" drink at the Cuzzins, then headed over to vcunnings for turkey.
Day 2:
Hopefully vcunning or drjeff will chime in. I eneded up stacking a cord of firewood and putting up some Christmas stuff with my wife. We did see the crew at drjeff's place that night for his b-day. Good times!
Day 3:
A bit cloudy and a bit more crowded. The top of Long John was really scratchy! So was Upper Cascade. I guess they got a little wet precip early Friday and that set up with the cooler temps. Once you got past the icy areas, the trails were good. The only issue were the crowds. It wasn't busy...still pretty much ski on to the lifts, but everyone was going down the same few top to bottom trails.
All in all though, a good day. It's great to be out skiing this early in the season.
They've fired up the fan guns on Snowdance, Ridge and Nitro and they went all day from what I can tell. Hopefully, they'll drop some ropes tomorrow and have a few more runs open. I'll report back.
