EMSC
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Days 1&2
Could have hit Summit or etc.. but figured it was not worth the extra effort just yet. Though Vail & Wolf Creek finally have some natural snow areas open. Most of Colo has had at least 1-2 feet in 48hrs as of this am when I was looking. Even Eldora with 14" in 48hrs as of early am today.
5" was the new snow report for Saturday but continuing snow meant ~8" had fallen by our 1pm :shock: start. The rest of life still bleeding into ski life. With snow squalls coming and going for our 3hr ski day. Though parking and season pass line were not an issue O
Basically one real run open (plus some beginner stuff of course). Good snow surface with the new.
Day 2 we did an earlier start getting on snow by all of 11:30 and riding the now two top to bottom open trails. They were continuing to blow snow on the second, but I didn't mind much since it was snowing out anyway. Super soft snow on both trails really (14"+ of reported new sure helps. Personally, it looked like more). The newly opened ungroomed Jolly Jug, was basically decent sized super soft bumps, which frankly I've generally always avoided on a board. But it turned out to be good practice and quite a workout too. Not sure what type of snow they had been trying to blow, but they had a couple feet deep of soft cream on the top which bumped up good. A surprisingly good ski day. And now that winter has shown up, I can't wait for this year to repeat like last. [-o<
I also took some not very good video with the new helmet cam, but I'm not quite set up yet to produce that in a timely manner. Maybe later this week. Iffy cell phone pics below!
Could have hit Summit or etc.. but figured it was not worth the extra effort just yet. Though Vail & Wolf Creek finally have some natural snow areas open. Most of Colo has had at least 1-2 feet in 48hrs as of this am when I was looking. Even Eldora with 14" in 48hrs as of early am today.
5" was the new snow report for Saturday but continuing snow meant ~8" had fallen by our 1pm :shock: start. The rest of life still bleeding into ski life. With snow squalls coming and going for our 3hr ski day. Though parking and season pass line were not an issue O
Basically one real run open (plus some beginner stuff of course). Good snow surface with the new.Day 2 we did an earlier start getting on snow by all of 11:30 and riding the now two top to bottom open trails. They were continuing to blow snow on the second, but I didn't mind much since it was snowing out anyway. Super soft snow on both trails really (14"+ of reported new sure helps. Personally, it looked like more). The newly opened ungroomed Jolly Jug, was basically decent sized super soft bumps, which frankly I've generally always avoided on a board. But it turned out to be good practice and quite a workout too. Not sure what type of snow they had been trying to blow, but they had a couple feet deep of soft cream on the top which bumped up good. A surprisingly good ski day. And now that winter has shown up, I can't wait for this year to repeat like last. [-o<
I also took some not very good video with the new helmet cam, but I'm not quite set up yet to produce that in a timely manner. Maybe later this week. Iffy cell phone pics below!
