Today inspired me to get back into documenting our powderdays in the 'Boat! It was arguably the best day all year (of which I've only had 6 days to Craig's 63, but he agreed!), with over a foot of new snow that mostly fell since the early hours this morning.
At 6am I checked the infamous stick (get the Steamboat app), and it was pretty congruent with the report - 2" at mid-mountain, 5" at the summit. It was snowing, however.
I went back to sleep.
My husband was rustling around at 7am and so I glanced one more time at the stick. Was that 6" and 8"? I wasn't motivated. But it's been weeks since I've snowboarded (powder-snob) so I thought... hmmmm.
At 7:20 I checked again. 8" and 8" and still snowing. I was up and driving out by 7:30. Now I was motivated.
It was a good choice. It just kept hammering all morning, and Ramrod was perhaps the best I've seen it all year with over a foot on it by the time we hit it at 9:40 or so. By then, we'd had 3 monster runs and face-shots galore.
Our adventure consisted of:
Gondy
Rudis
Blizzard
Storm Peak
Buddy's
Calfroper
In between trees
Cyclone
Dropout
Storm Peak
Storm Southwest to
Meadow
Sunset
Moonlight trees
Moonlight
Sundown
Block Powder
Tomahawk
Ramrod
Buckshot trees
South peak
Westside
Elkhead
Tower
Heavenly daze
Ted's Ridge
Giggle Gulch
Short Cut
And we were done by 10:15.
All in all, a great day on the hill.
Hopefully I can stay motivated to keep documenting our powder days... because it's a really great place to live, and an even greater place to ski.