Day 7: Where was everyone?
Blue skies, warm sun, a decent November base...and no one there.
Gold Miner's Daughter has five overnight guests tonight. Tomorrow night it drops to two.
We spent the day tooling around anywhere and everywhere, and found a smooth, chalky line down Yellow Trail and early Backside to Glatch, which we ran repeatedly.
On our second lap of that combination Bobby stopped to take some photos. I came across the rollover at the top, promptly clipped a nearly buried rock, clicked out of a ski and slid down half of Glatch on my back. The first fall of the season had to come sometime, I just wish that it hadn't taken place on camera. :roll: On the third trip through I stopped to take photos of them instead.
From where I was positioned I backed up to ski Glitch instead, and found the snow even better -- soft, sifted and a wider line.
We bumped into our Canadian transplant friends Jon and Theresa on the GMD deck after lunch, and they brought with them today a thermos filled with a special treat: a new maple syrup-infused Crown Royal mixed with hot mulled apple cider and lemon that made the after-lunch trip up Collins downright enjoyable.
I took a couple of runs after lunch before splitting, finishing up with the mandatory High Boy LRP. The High Traverse is getting a little rough across Sunspot Ridge as the base keeps getting chewed through, but High Boy today was about as smooth as a pool table and as effortless as I've ever skied it with stiff, edgeable, chalky snow above the Saddle Traverse. Below there the extra traffic only meant that there were small bumps added but the consistency remained the same. Watching AmyZ ski High Boy today it's immediately obvious that she's been recently stepping up her game a notch. She nailed it like a champ: smooth, fluid and aggressive.
Tomorrow's another day.
Blue skies, warm sun, a decent November base...and no one there.
Gold Miner's Daughter has five overnight guests tonight. Tomorrow night it drops to two.
We spent the day tooling around anywhere and everywhere, and found a smooth, chalky line down Yellow Trail and early Backside to Glatch, which we ran repeatedly.
On our second lap of that combination Bobby stopped to take some photos. I came across the rollover at the top, promptly clipped a nearly buried rock, clicked out of a ski and slid down half of Glatch on my back. The first fall of the season had to come sometime, I just wish that it hadn't taken place on camera. :roll: On the third trip through I stopped to take photos of them instead.
From where I was positioned I backed up to ski Glitch instead, and found the snow even better -- soft, sifted and a wider line.
We bumped into our Canadian transplant friends Jon and Theresa on the GMD deck after lunch, and they brought with them today a thermos filled with a special treat: a new maple syrup-infused Crown Royal mixed with hot mulled apple cider and lemon that made the after-lunch trip up Collins downright enjoyable.
I took a couple of runs after lunch before splitting, finishing up with the mandatory High Boy LRP. The High Traverse is getting a little rough across Sunspot Ridge as the base keeps getting chewed through, but High Boy today was about as smooth as a pool table and as effortless as I've ever skied it with stiff, edgeable, chalky snow above the Saddle Traverse. Below there the extra traffic only meant that there were small bumps added but the consistency remained the same. Watching AmyZ ski High Boy today it's immediately obvious that she's been recently stepping up her game a notch. She nailed it like a champ: smooth, fluid and aggressive.
Tomorrow's another day.
