EMSC
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Day 11 ( :shock: ): Great snow surface.
A short day on the hill overall. I made it up to the hill by all of noon, but skied till the 4pm buzzer. The snow surfaces were great. While still a bit low in base depth, the last couple of weeks have seen significant snows and only some the steepest shots are still closed. Such as nearly all of Tucker mtn, though the taco looked very skiable. The Tucker hike is in no way worth the effort for just the Nacho. Although I have to call Bull $#!^ on the base depths being reported. No way, no how. Only in a large drift do they have 54" mid-way or 65" at the top. Probably more like 24" at the base, maybe 40" mid-way and perhaps 48" at the top - on average - would be my guess.
The surfaces all over the mtn were a soft, grippy, hero snow even on the most over-used trails. The average joe tourists were loving that surface. Even I found it a most excellent surface to ski, especially on a pair of skis I haven't tuned in a year :-" . Temps were fairly warm too, maybe in the upper 20's on mtn and probably just over 32 at the very base.
I hit Spaulding bowl & glade for a couple of runs right off the bat before taking the Lillie G traverse over into Copper Bowl for a couple more runs and then over to Union Bowl and S lift until it closed at 3:30, with a fast run back down to the Super B for one last high speed groomer top to bottom (2,300 verts on that lift).
Just some cell phone pics today...
A short day on the hill overall. I made it up to the hill by all of noon, but skied till the 4pm buzzer. The snow surfaces were great. While still a bit low in base depth, the last couple of weeks have seen significant snows and only some the steepest shots are still closed. Such as nearly all of Tucker mtn, though the taco looked very skiable. The Tucker hike is in no way worth the effort for just the Nacho. Although I have to call Bull $#!^ on the base depths being reported. No way, no how. Only in a large drift do they have 54" mid-way or 65" at the top. Probably more like 24" at the base, maybe 40" mid-way and perhaps 48" at the top - on average - would be my guess.
The surfaces all over the mtn were a soft, grippy, hero snow even on the most over-used trails. The average joe tourists were loving that surface. Even I found it a most excellent surface to ski, especially on a pair of skis I haven't tuned in a year :-" . Temps were fairly warm too, maybe in the upper 20's on mtn and probably just over 32 at the very base.
I hit Spaulding bowl & glade for a couple of runs right off the bat before taking the Lillie G traverse over into Copper Bowl for a couple more runs and then over to Union Bowl and S lift until it closed at 3:30, with a fast run back down to the Super B for one last high speed groomer top to bottom (2,300 verts on that lift).
Just some cell phone pics today...