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Fairly busy this morning, lift was about 10 minutes late to run. After the initial line was carreid up the hill, there was no lift line even as I was leaving at 10:30. National, Upper National, Nosedive, and various other runs were highly poachable. They stuck some ski patrol folks at the top of Nosedive, and I think I saw another at the top of National, to prevent more poachings. At about 10:00 they opened up a few more runs, Ridgeview and Sunrise I believe. I saw some guys earning fresh tracks under Perry Merril -> Cliff -> Lower Nosedive. Face shots were had on some poached runs near Lookout Glades, though rocks were still treacherous at some points. <BR> <BR>There was about 6-10" of new powder overnight I would say, making for some very, very, nice riding. They project the busiest day to be this Saturday according to a riding instructor on the lift. North Slope had some icy granular, and by about 10:00 AM, right off the top of the lift, it was reduced to gnarly packed powder until a quarter-klick down, where it was nicely edgable stuff. Gotta sharpen my edges. The wind and clouds made way to sunlight at about 10:00, where low-accumulation light snow abruptly stopped. <BR> <BR>I hope to show up tomorrow morning to get some runs in before the masses descend. Plus on Sunday I see the chance of the 'R' word in the forecast, though to be taken lightly as it is a long term forecasts.