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Pretty cool, pretty cool. Pretty neat, pretty neat. Morning report from the mountain sums it up nicely: "7-10 inches of honest to goodness champagne powder since Thursday night with no wind .This on top of an outstanding firm and edgeable base." <BR> <BR>Yes indeed, it was an outstandingly firm base. But the powder was pretty outstanding, too. Like yesterday, it got pushed around quite a lot, revealing that outstanding firm base, but as long as you aimed for the pillows, it was great. Some places in the trees, it was considerably more than 10 inches. <BR> <BR>Wife and I did several laps, mostly double chair runs. The area was crawling with people: she tried to sign up for a lesson, but there was no room in school. Waits for the single were probably in the 20 minute range. <BR> <BR>The snow has gotten incredibly deep all of a sudden. The snow stick on top of Stark's Mountain is reading between 5 and 6. Many old hazards are disappearing from sight. <BR> <BR>This was most clear on a solo trip out to play a little golf. I skied a route that, top to bottom, even as high as UFO-Bowl, hasn't skied this well since long before the ice storm. I made lucky guesses at several junctures, each of which paid off like a Belmont Trifecta. Long, long uninterrupted lines of untouched powder, soft and deep and sensuous: another powder run skied for my kneeless west coast buddy. <BR> <BR>Skiing is fun. Quit you job and go ski now.