IN THE DEEP

Unquestionably the best day and best powder we've had all year, today brought a reported minimal 8" of new in the last 24 but it was definitely more like a foot in spots as usual.

First chair up Christie to Four Points, we made our fresh knee-high turns down into Moonlight trees in light powder with Keith and Jesse, and headed up Sundown to seek out the stashes before the Saturday mob arrived. From the top we did "Keith's Ridge" under the top of Sunshine Lift Line, where visibility was pretty minimal under a thick fog but the snow was downright glorious.

From there we hit OneOClock to find some tree stashes, which were so nice we did 1230 first then 130 later on when we caught up with Drew and Jeannie from Colorado Springs. ("Look there's a whole flock of em!" -Texan says about the monoskiers.) The trees below the Duster cat track were mint, but what was groomed was also nice with about 4" on top of fresh cord.



We also found some goodies in the Sundial area trees, on Ramrod and Buckshot, and frankly, there isn't a bad run out there today! We didn't burn out until about 11, shocker, since we haven't had this much snow to burn the quads since ... well, April 2009 maybe. :)

Both Westside and Rolex were lovely, for Westside, I rode the left side into the trees towards Broadway for shin-deep stuff; and Rolex had "hero" bumps up to my waist in spots. We found similar on Hurricane, and ducked into the trees back to Rainbow for the stashes there. DIVINE!

Just like that, one day of the good and the bare and not-so-nice spots are filling in very nicely- Sundown Liftline, Thunderhead Liftline, and Sunshine Liftline were all back to excellent.

Finally, we have some deep! And hopefully more of it. Real soon.