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Unlike others, we arrived at just past 9:00 AM. <BR> <BR>Unlike others, we paid for tickets -- although we were ever asked to show same. Rather than pay for a ticket, the adventurous lawbreaker could have tried Jedi mind tricks to avoid detection. Others opted to ascend bipedally. <BR> <BR>Conditions were minimal soft natural snow adorning the edges of general hard packed factory product compressed under high stress into the shape of moguls. Lower sections of trail also featured an icing of sometimes wet, sometime dense powder-like factory product fresh from noise-ordinance ignorant nozzles. <BR> <BR>This mix of conditions was challenging enough on it's own, but wait -- there was more. A thick blanket of people covered every surface from 9:30 AM to roughly around 11 AM. After 11, the people were all scraped off and sent home. The trail was sparsely populated by noon and practically empty by 2, when we headed home. We almost headed home at 11, too, but we stuck it out and were partially rewarded for our perseverance. <BR> <BR>All in all, seven rides up and seven runs down. One injury -- last run, I was looking over my shoulder to avoid collision which placed me out of position while crossing a frictionless hard surface. Right hip/thigh region made contact with the concrete like "snow", causing serious muscle bruise. I expect pain until the next natural snowfall.