With mommy stuck at work Sunday, mini-animal and I ventured out to take sample of the destruction that the sun and rains had wrought up on the land.
We arrived to find clear skies and gorgeous views at the peak
Expecting the worst with regards to conditions we were pleasantly surprised to find most of the trails were actually borderline pleasant. Most of the upper elevation runs skied fine, with a few icy patches, as we got lower we found re-frozen ice pellets and sugar snow, and in the higher traffic areas it was boilerplate with large piles of granular snow. At no point was anything that we were on "un-skiable" and most of the open trails had very good coverage. Perhaps I may have misjudged our new overlords. Their plan of opening and operating trails with greater base depths to provide a better skiing experience vs just blowing enough snow to max out the total number of trails open seems to have allowed them to weather the thaw better then other areas. To be sure anything that didn't have snowmaking/grooming on it was toast, or more to the point was covered by 4-5" of an impenetrable ice layer, but there's nothing that could have been done to save those trails.
Towards the end of the day Mini-animal started working on his switch skiing steeze, kids got some real talent going backwards
We arrived to find clear skies and gorgeous views at the peak
Expecting the worst with regards to conditions we were pleasantly surprised to find most of the trails were actually borderline pleasant. Most of the upper elevation runs skied fine, with a few icy patches, as we got lower we found re-frozen ice pellets and sugar snow, and in the higher traffic areas it was boilerplate with large piles of granular snow. At no point was anything that we were on "un-skiable" and most of the open trails had very good coverage. Perhaps I may have misjudged our new overlords. Their plan of opening and operating trails with greater base depths to provide a better skiing experience vs just blowing enough snow to max out the total number of trails open seems to have allowed them to weather the thaw better then other areas. To be sure anything that didn't have snowmaking/grooming on it was toast, or more to the point was covered by 4-5" of an impenetrable ice layer, but there's nothing that could have been done to save those trails.
Towards the end of the day Mini-animal started working on his switch skiing steeze, kids got some real talent going backwards
But the best part was enjoying the last run and closing out the mountain at 4 pm. It was a long fun day and we both had a blast just being out there.
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