schubwa
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Today was lookin' to be a good one, after last night's solid snowfall in town. The early reports were 5" new overnight, and still snowing hard. It was a 9" new when I left. Only deterrent was the large holiday crowds. But I'm stoked the mountain has had such overall great weather for this Christmas-New Year's period. Hopefully they made a bunch of money!
If there were better powder snow conditions somewhere else today, well I'm really glad for them too. The snow was that floaty, soft, shin-deep fluff that most folks don't think we have regularly here in the PNW. In fact, we had lots of that kind of snow earlier in the season, especially before we opened on 11/20. Problem was most of it blew off the top and re-deposited lower down. So until recently we had wonderful coverage about 200 meters below the top of the lower lifts. Above, especially the upper half of the mountain, it was still very rocky. That is why it seemed to take a long time to open the Summit, Outback and NW Express chairs, even with fairly impressive total seasonal snowfall figures. Summit was still ungroomed as of yesterday, due to the barely covered areas on the Healy and Beverly Hills runs. But it has been open and very skiable, as I showed you from earlier in the week. NW has some reef as well on the top, but has super coverage lower down.
The gang's all here. Recession? What recession? Amazingly, after waiting for all these nice folks to go ahead of me, I still got great first goods on the way over to NWX.
It's been said the runs on Northwest are like those found at eastern ski areas. They're sorta narrow and super fun when they're hard and you're going faster than $hit. Today they rode just fine!
A little higher up. This was my second or third time up and even with the crowd, that guy looks like he is still in the open right in the middle of the run.
We have open tree skiing here and the tree runs are filling in nicely. On the 158 Malolo again today.
This shot from today's Mt B Web Site.
If there were better powder snow conditions somewhere else today, well I'm really glad for them too. The snow was that floaty, soft, shin-deep fluff that most folks don't think we have regularly here in the PNW. In fact, we had lots of that kind of snow earlier in the season, especially before we opened on 11/20. Problem was most of it blew off the top and re-deposited lower down. So until recently we had wonderful coverage about 200 meters below the top of the lower lifts. Above, especially the upper half of the mountain, it was still very rocky. That is why it seemed to take a long time to open the Summit, Outback and NW Express chairs, even with fairly impressive total seasonal snowfall figures. Summit was still ungroomed as of yesterday, due to the barely covered areas on the Healy and Beverly Hills runs. But it has been open and very skiable, as I showed you from earlier in the week. NW has some reef as well on the top, but has super coverage lower down.
The gang's all here. Recession? What recession? Amazingly, after waiting for all these nice folks to go ahead of me, I still got great first goods on the way over to NWX.
It's been said the runs on Northwest are like those found at eastern ski areas. They're sorta narrow and super fun when they're hard and you're going faster than $hit. Today they rode just fine!
A little higher up. This was my second or third time up and even with the crowd, that guy looks like he is still in the open right in the middle of the run.
We have open tree skiing here and the tree runs are filling in nicely. On the 158 Malolo again today.
This shot from today's Mt B Web Site.
