ga2ski
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Today was a great day of sun, and relatively soft snow. We started out at Barker around 8:45 and the snow was still firm, but nicely groomed. After a few runs on nice consistent, fast, but very edgable snow we headed towards Spruce where I knew the snow would be a little softer due to all the sun Spruce gets early in the morning. Anyway Risky and Amex were great. We headed down to South Ridge to buy sunscreen as we all forgot it.
Around 10:00 we headed over to Aurora to ski Airglow. The snow was nice, but hadn't soften to my liking so we headed back to Barker.
At 11:15 or so we went down to the passholders's BBQ. We arrived just in time because the line was just forming and we only had to wait about 10 minutes from my free burger, pasta salad, soda, and chips. A very nice gesture by the mountain and I appreciate all their hard work this trying winter. After an hour or so of soaking in the sun and festivities, we headed up the Tempest quad. Upper Tempest was really soft, with the nice corn that I was craving.
Then we headed to the Heat chair. White Heat was soft where people had ski (down the center), the rest was firm. The Skier's right bumps (2-3 lines deep, pretty much in the center of trail) were soft and fun. I got outside of those lines a few times and it got ugly. Then we found the trail of the day . . Obsession. The top section was frozen granular, but once you got down to Heat's Off, the snow became nice buttery corn. If the great snow on the trail wasn't enough (yes there are some bare spots, but the are marked) there was a nice natural old school jump to throw oursleves off of on skier's left just past the intersection with Heat's On.
After three runs on Obession we headed back to Barker. Cascades was very nice with great coverage for that trail this time of the year. Right stuff was good, but a bit scratchy underneath the sugar on top. Monday Morning was my second favorite of the day as it was soft, corny, but still fast.
We left the hill around 2:30. A VERY GOOD DAY.
Get up there while the lifts are still turning. SR plans to close on Monday April 17th ( the 17th is the traditional end of the season free ski/ride day)
Around 10:00 we headed over to Aurora to ski Airglow. The snow was nice, but hadn't soften to my liking so we headed back to Barker.
At 11:15 or so we went down to the passholders's BBQ. We arrived just in time because the line was just forming and we only had to wait about 10 minutes from my free burger, pasta salad, soda, and chips. A very nice gesture by the mountain and I appreciate all their hard work this trying winter. After an hour or so of soaking in the sun and festivities, we headed up the Tempest quad. Upper Tempest was really soft, with the nice corn that I was craving.
Then we headed to the Heat chair. White Heat was soft where people had ski (down the center), the rest was firm. The Skier's right bumps (2-3 lines deep, pretty much in the center of trail) were soft and fun. I got outside of those lines a few times and it got ugly. Then we found the trail of the day . . Obsession. The top section was frozen granular, but once you got down to Heat's Off, the snow became nice buttery corn. If the great snow on the trail wasn't enough (yes there are some bare spots, but the are marked) there was a nice natural old school jump to throw oursleves off of on skier's left just past the intersection with Heat's On.
After three runs on Obession we headed back to Barker. Cascades was very nice with great coverage for that trail this time of the year. Right stuff was good, but a bit scratchy underneath the sugar on top. Monday Morning was my second favorite of the day as it was soft, corny, but still fast.
We left the hill around 2:30. A VERY GOOD DAY.
Get up there while the lifts are still turning. SR plans to close on Monday April 17th ( the 17th is the traditional end of the season free ski/ride day)
