tseeb
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At 5 am Thurs. morning, Northstar claimed 32 inches new in the last 24 hours and a storm total of 46 inches. My friend started blowing his 700 foot driveway about 6 am, while I shoveled a little and cooked breakfast. We got out of the house before 9 and were on the gondola about 10. Again we took Zephyr to the poma to Lookout Mt. I got a little stuck getting to the Sugar Pine Glades, but once there the snow was great as is had been under 30 degrees since previous morning. The snow was so deep and enough of Northstar is low angle that you always wanted to have a track below you to avoid getting stuck. We did another nearly untracked run on Boca, immediately to riders left of the chair. I continued into low-angle trees at the bottom, where I found more great, almost untracked snow.
Next run, we were going to go to Prosser, where we had found good, deep snow the previous day, but saw the gate to rarely-skiable White Rabbit was open. There were still some thin spots at the top where west and south-facing run had melted in previous weeks and wind prevented new snow from sticking, but I found smow great snow. My friend got on top of a knoll and said not to go that way, so I went the other way and found deep untracked all the way to the catch-road, which on skis I was able to cruise to Backside. My friend struggled on his board and got at least 10 minutes behind me. After waiting 5 minutes, I went up Backside and skied powder on skier’s right of the liftline and saw him on the chair about halfway down. Next run, I skied deep snow in Monument Glades before going in for lunch at the top where I met him in the overflow tent.
He was tired from all his snow-blowing and his struggle getting out of White Rabbit and quit for the day. I took two more runs on Lookout (gate to White Rabbit was already closed), before skiing powder over packed on long Home Run where he picked me up about 2:45 pm. I totaled 12 runs and 18.2K mostly powder vertical. He spent another two hours snow-blowing before dinner and I shoveled the stairs between his decks which had not been touched since storm started. He also cleared a road to where my Toyota was buried and after clearing most of the almost 4 feet of snow off it, I was able to get to his driveway and turn around without putting on cable. But I will probably need them just to get to and going up the long hill on the highway.
Friday morning at 6 am, Northstar reports 37” more new (and 82” storm total) and my friend is already blowing. The plan for me today is Squaw, as winds have mostly died although it is still dumping, then home.
Next run, we were going to go to Prosser, where we had found good, deep snow the previous day, but saw the gate to rarely-skiable White Rabbit was open. There were still some thin spots at the top where west and south-facing run had melted in previous weeks and wind prevented new snow from sticking, but I found smow great snow. My friend got on top of a knoll and said not to go that way, so I went the other way and found deep untracked all the way to the catch-road, which on skis I was able to cruise to Backside. My friend struggled on his board and got at least 10 minutes behind me. After waiting 5 minutes, I went up Backside and skied powder on skier’s right of the liftline and saw him on the chair about halfway down. Next run, I skied deep snow in Monument Glades before going in for lunch at the top where I met him in the overflow tent.
He was tired from all his snow-blowing and his struggle getting out of White Rabbit and quit for the day. I took two more runs on Lookout (gate to White Rabbit was already closed), before skiing powder over packed on long Home Run where he picked me up about 2:45 pm. I totaled 12 runs and 18.2K mostly powder vertical. He spent another two hours snow-blowing before dinner and I shoveled the stairs between his decks which had not been touched since storm started. He also cleared a road to where my Toyota was buried and after clearing most of the almost 4 feet of snow off it, I was able to get to his driveway and turn around without putting on cable. But I will probably need them just to get to and going up the long hill on the highway.
Friday morning at 6 am, Northstar reports 37” more new (and 82” storm total) and my friend is already blowing. The plan for me today is Squaw, as winds have mostly died although it is still dumping, then home.
