EMSC
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Powder and sun (finally some sun!)
The 6" on the snow report really meant anything from wind blown sastrugi to soft wind buffed to probably 8-10" in sheltered areas. The morning was spent in the upper bowl area with crazy spectacular views. The snow depended both on aspect and altitude. With Bye Bye bowl pretty wind affected, but boundary bowl nice powder. Standish, while kind of short, has some surprisingly fun short pitches and small drop offs which were all filled in with probably a good 10"+ of fluff (Virgins, Donkey's tail, Headwall, etc...). Even checking out Wawa before lunch.
After a nice sit down lunch in the day lodge, Goat's Eye was on the menu. Clouds were coming back in closing off the expansive views though not quite covering Goat' Eye itself for the most part. Several laps in various chutes (pretty wide open chutes here for the most part), the Cleavage, checking out The Big Woody glade and of course dropping the 10 foot cliff in the Eagle Creek run out from it all. With the upper part of Goat's Eye a chalky windblown, morphing into surprisingly lightly tracked powder about a quarter to a third of the way down. The true extreme stuff in Wild west and Delirium Dive are not open due to avi bombing apparently having caused slides that ran to bare ground several times this winter already.
I know Patrick's thoughts on this ski day, but avoiding will much more directly affect the folks trying to scratch out a living working here. It's still a tough and very sensitive issue in town for sure.
The 6" on the snow report really meant anything from wind blown sastrugi to soft wind buffed to probably 8-10" in sheltered areas. The morning was spent in the upper bowl area with crazy spectacular views. The snow depended both on aspect and altitude. With Bye Bye bowl pretty wind affected, but boundary bowl nice powder. Standish, while kind of short, has some surprisingly fun short pitches and small drop offs which were all filled in with probably a good 10"+ of fluff (Virgins, Donkey's tail, Headwall, etc...). Even checking out Wawa before lunch.
After a nice sit down lunch in the day lodge, Goat's Eye was on the menu. Clouds were coming back in closing off the expansive views though not quite covering Goat' Eye itself for the most part. Several laps in various chutes (pretty wide open chutes here for the most part), the Cleavage, checking out The Big Woody glade and of course dropping the 10 foot cliff in the Eagle Creek run out from it all. With the upper part of Goat's Eye a chalky windblown, morphing into surprisingly lightly tracked powder about a quarter to a third of the way down. The true extreme stuff in Wild west and Delirium Dive are not open due to avi bombing apparently having caused slides that ran to bare ground several times this winter already.
I know Patrick's thoughts on this ski day, but avoiding will much more directly affect the folks trying to scratch out a living working here. It's still a tough and very sensitive issue in town for sure.
