(Saturday March 27th, posted by Craig Kennedy)
It’s the end of March and there are no brown spots on the mountain. And despite what the report said this morning the mountain was in beautiful mid winter shape. The five inches that fell two nights ago and into yesterday morning with the 6 on the report this morning (and it snowed all morning too) made for over a foot of fresh (and more in spots) and barely a notice of the treacherous conditions lurking beneath.
After a buttery run down Rudy’s we loaded Four Points in the 15th position and headed directly for my favorite warm up run consisting of Sunset (right side of course) to Moonlight Trees. Riding with my BFF Keith we had to head next to Keith’s Ridge. Then we skied the top of Sunshine Lift line and cut back out towards one o’clock and onto Billy Kid Trees (it’s a secret, can’t tell you). After that we headed to my new favorite tree shot off of Sundial and finished with an untracked run down RamRod. So besides all the face shots (I am nice and low to the ground) the mountain was also empty.
Devoid of locals and tourists alike so tomorrow should be SWEEEEEEET! While the skiing was great, it had been a while since skiing a powder day and I felt a little off my game the first couple of runs. Then my armpit zipper on my jacket blew out so it was a cold morning but it was all worth it. There’s nothing better than end of the season powder days after you’ve already convinced yourself there won’t be any more. And hopefully we get one more for my lovely, but slightly injured wife.
See you In The Deep!
Yesterday's powder was so much fun, we decided to post more videos!
Craig's Ridge/Westside- barring the first 20 seconds of me getting my bearings (and maybe swearing about it, sorry!), Craig hits this jump on Westside like a champ!
Keith's shot down Buckshot- powder was in the trees today!
Ramrod- This one's long, but a nice tree run if I could only keep my hand straight. :)
-See you in the Deep!
After several weeks of what seemed like a repeat of Ice Age 2:The Melt Down, winter has finally returned in the 'Boat and locals were up bright and early this morning tasting 9 new in 24. What fell yesterday squashed nicely into the base, filling in between bumps, holes, and patches, so that when today's half-a-foot fell, it was icing on the cake.
We made turned chair on Four Points into a rare lap back to Storm for what was our best run down Cyclone all year. 5" new on a fresh mow, meow. Big swooping GS turns, we cut first tracks down that baby all the way to a slightly bumped Drop Out for 11th chair on Storm, not bad. They were all chomping at the bit, and we'd had one long, gloriously powderific run. No complaints.
Storm Peak Express took us through the soupy morning fog - visibility, one chair - to the top, where it was hard to shake off the vertigo on Storm Face, but once you got dropped over the ridge the snow was buttery and deep in the meadow, already push piles on Sunset (First Trackers delight this morning!), and then glorious again in Moonlight Trees.
Where to next was the big question, and we decided to taste the trees- as normal, 1230, 130, and Wristband- that big open glade below the trees between Rolex and Westside, tasty. Ramrod, Buckshot, treeline off Sunshine, Westside Ridge; everywhere was nicely frosted with thick buttery, cream cheese-tastic Champagne Powder!