schubwa
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It was my girlfriend Sally's birthday so I took her to Elk Lake Resort for dinner. Trouble is, it's 11 miles and 1500 feet below the end of the nearest plowed road, which is the parking lot at Bachelor. So we skate skied in. They groom on Friday nights, so the track was perfect in falling snow. Kinda wet snow, but it was forecast to get colder as the storm progressed. We had a great dinner: rib eyes, mashers, roasted vege's and hot berry pie with Tillamook vanilla ice cream for dessert. Not the usual institutional fried fare you get at these snowmobile lodges. Then it was back out in a converted (over the snow) Suburban.
I'd left my 24 foot Class C motorhome in the parking lot for a camp out that night. We awoke to about 5" new snow and I met my buddy Tom, who is up from San Rafael, near the Bay Area. He comes up for weeks at a time. It was kind of a variable day on Saturday. Early in the season you'd be happy, but it's been so good lately it seemed sort of $hitty. But the top 500 vert on NWX and Outback were very good snow, so Sunday could be really fine if it clears and the top reopens. More snow fell overnight Saturday night.
Well, it's Sunday and we got a few more inches and the sun is out. Here is the slopestyle scene looking down onto a light crowd parking lot. Bachelor is a very snowboard friendly area and I think it's great both the skiers and boarders get along really well here. No body cares what you ride.
Looks like it's gonna be a powder day! I'm late and the top has been opened 30 minutes, this will get tracked a little later.
This is right off the top of Summit, looking at a rime incrusted world. You didn't have to go far down to find the fresh snow, like one turn.
I'm starting to think of this year as the the "Season of the Summit". I've already had way more powder days off the top due to a less stormy pattern this year. The last two seasons it was hardly open due to weather and low priority, but now the "New Powdr Corp" has shown us they can get the dang thing open in a hurry. Cheers!
Even though we're regarded as the "Ginger Step Child" of North American resorts, I really like it here. We had fresh all day, no traffic, no hustle and no bustle. I was back home in 20 minutes.
I'd left my 24 foot Class C motorhome in the parking lot for a camp out that night. We awoke to about 5" new snow and I met my buddy Tom, who is up from San Rafael, near the Bay Area. He comes up for weeks at a time. It was kind of a variable day on Saturday. Early in the season you'd be happy, but it's been so good lately it seemed sort of $hitty. But the top 500 vert on NWX and Outback were very good snow, so Sunday could be really fine if it clears and the top reopens. More snow fell overnight Saturday night.
Well, it's Sunday and we got a few more inches and the sun is out. Here is the slopestyle scene looking down onto a light crowd parking lot. Bachelor is a very snowboard friendly area and I think it's great both the skiers and boarders get along really well here. No body cares what you ride.
Looks like it's gonna be a powder day! I'm late and the top has been opened 30 minutes, this will get tracked a little later.
This is right off the top of Summit, looking at a rime incrusted world. You didn't have to go far down to find the fresh snow, like one turn.
I'm starting to think of this year as the the "Season of the Summit". I've already had way more powder days off the top due to a less stormy pattern this year. The last two seasons it was hardly open due to weather and low priority, but now the "New Powdr Corp" has shown us they can get the dang thing open in a hurry. Cheers!
Even though we're regarded as the "Ginger Step Child" of North American resorts, I really like it here. We had fresh all day, no traffic, no hustle and no bustle. I was back home in 20 minutes.
