tseeb
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Friend and I left SLT cabin about 8:20 and got on Timber Creek lift at Kirkwood where 10” new was reported (probably half fell previous day) at 950. We skied past Cornice lift which had very long line and was above what my friend could handle then, and split up and rode slow intermediate chair 5 as singles. We skied smoothly groomed Mokelumne, then I got in singles line at Reut before realizing friend had gone down and lost ski not far from rope at bottom of chair. Since we’d already setup meeting time at his truck to leave (that was too early for me), I skied Conestoga, finding less than a handful of tracks in the dry 4-5” on wide steep run.
I moved to Cornice chair taking traverse past top of Sentinel into Palisades area. First line I took highest traverse that required one skiing past, then a jump to miss rocks and found great untracked most of the way down. I also found one rock where I should have known better. Second lap I did not traverse quite as high and went out further and found very long, but less than 100’ wide slide path. I thought I could ski down it, then cross it to get untracked, but it was very slick on my powder skis and not wanting to join guy who was hiking up it to get to where he’d crashed and lost skis I cut out it and skied past bottom of it before crossing to untracked on other side. Next time up friend with Kirkwood house (that has broken water main and he has a cold) spotted me getting into line and we skied a Palisades lap together. Next time up he was going to wait for his brother and I moved to the Wall which had been open long enough for line to be going down.
Entrance road to main Wall had not been put in, but I found highest traverse got me past 4-5’ steep scraped drops and into good snow. I skied excellent skiers left of Eagle Bowl that had just opened for the day 3x, twice cutting left into E-facing chutes and trees below Norm’s Nose and once continuing in nearly untracked gully to Devil’s Corral. I passed moderate line for chair 2 to get to the Backside which opened at noon and where my friend went for one lap. I returned to the Wall and skied steep, barely tracked trees between All The Way and Dick’s Drop.
I moved to Cornice for four fast laps. The first time up I made the mistake of pointing out filled in edge of Zachary’s under chair and guy riding it with me beat me to it. I still found good snow there, but won’t make that mistake again. The next two times I started on Olympic then cut to the right, first time skiing mostly untracked trees just to right of run eventually getting into chute I like in that area. Second time I stayed in the Log Chute and cut a little further right on exit from chute. The steep gully exiting Olympic was also very good.
My last run was Sentinel, semi-skier-packed with some deeper areas on right side. I skied across road to friend’s truck at 2:05 with 21,570’ vertical. I’ve skied some new snow on six of my eight days since January 2. This was the best/most and my first day this season on my 10 year old powder skis. Even though I had camera, I did not take any photos as light was not that great most of the day. It was snowing on and off all day, sometime heavily enough to fill in tracks.
I moved to Cornice chair taking traverse past top of Sentinel into Palisades area. First line I took highest traverse that required one skiing past, then a jump to miss rocks and found great untracked most of the way down. I also found one rock where I should have known better. Second lap I did not traverse quite as high and went out further and found very long, but less than 100’ wide slide path. I thought I could ski down it, then cross it to get untracked, but it was very slick on my powder skis and not wanting to join guy who was hiking up it to get to where he’d crashed and lost skis I cut out it and skied past bottom of it before crossing to untracked on other side. Next time up friend with Kirkwood house (that has broken water main and he has a cold) spotted me getting into line and we skied a Palisades lap together. Next time up he was going to wait for his brother and I moved to the Wall which had been open long enough for line to be going down.
Entrance road to main Wall had not been put in, but I found highest traverse got me past 4-5’ steep scraped drops and into good snow. I skied excellent skiers left of Eagle Bowl that had just opened for the day 3x, twice cutting left into E-facing chutes and trees below Norm’s Nose and once continuing in nearly untracked gully to Devil’s Corral. I passed moderate line for chair 2 to get to the Backside which opened at noon and where my friend went for one lap. I returned to the Wall and skied steep, barely tracked trees between All The Way and Dick’s Drop.
I moved to Cornice for four fast laps. The first time up I made the mistake of pointing out filled in edge of Zachary’s under chair and guy riding it with me beat me to it. I still found good snow there, but won’t make that mistake again. The next two times I started on Olympic then cut to the right, first time skiing mostly untracked trees just to right of run eventually getting into chute I like in that area. Second time I stayed in the Log Chute and cut a little further right on exit from chute. The steep gully exiting Olympic was also very good.
My last run was Sentinel, semi-skier-packed with some deeper areas on right side. I skied across road to friend’s truck at 2:05 with 21,570’ vertical. I’ve skied some new snow on six of my eight days since January 2. This was the best/most and my first day this season on my 10 year old powder skis. Even though I had camera, I did not take any photos as light was not that great most of the day. It was snowing on and off all day, sometime heavily enough to fill in tracks.