If you check the posts from early January you will find that unuusally hevy snow in January took a lot away from the vacation. Now, just like a bad penny I'm back and the conditions could ot be more different. Before reading any further please realize that I am a beginning intermedite skier so off-piste, tree runs and a foot of powder is not my scene. I'm an aging Boomer who prefers courdoroy.
OK - on to the Heavenly report for 3/2. 30 degrees is a good start but 4-6 inches of new powder is just right for me. Gunbarrel Lift beat the Tram to the top - Yahoo! ouple of untacked green runs to warm the legs adn then up to Skytop to explor the long blues. Ridge Run most excellent then over to Nevada side and down Perimeter. Even through it's approaching 11AM the snow is still frsh and its a sunny blue sky day.
Then, 200 feet short of the Perimeter chair came the fall! Popped one ski, hit my head, bent the frame of my glasses. Bummer! Chair up to California trail - call me dumb but I'm a trooper. By now the sun has begun to turn the surface to slush and it's packing down really badly. Legs are starting to complain as is the right shoulder. Time for lunch - yep $10 cheesburgers.
Back to the slopes after shedding extra layers - temperatures approaching 45 at the base. Snow is really soft. Trails ar a mess. Inte last section of Ridge Run down to th Canyon and Skytop cjairs looks like a mogul run. Time to call it a day before I do serious damage and blow the good feelings of the morning.
All thing considered probably the best ski day I've ever had. Today it's off the Sierra at Tahoe Joints still ache so it may be a good day for a lesson. More sun with highs of 46 predicted.
OK - on to the Heavenly report for 3/2. 30 degrees is a good start but 4-6 inches of new powder is just right for me. Gunbarrel Lift beat the Tram to the top - Yahoo! ouple of untacked green runs to warm the legs adn then up to Skytop to explor the long blues. Ridge Run most excellent then over to Nevada side and down Perimeter. Even through it's approaching 11AM the snow is still frsh and its a sunny blue sky day.
Then, 200 feet short of the Perimeter chair came the fall! Popped one ski, hit my head, bent the frame of my glasses. Bummer! Chair up to California trail - call me dumb but I'm a trooper. By now the sun has begun to turn the surface to slush and it's packing down really badly. Legs are starting to complain as is the right shoulder. Time for lunch - yep $10 cheesburgers.
Back to the slopes after shedding extra layers - temperatures approaching 45 at the base. Snow is really soft. Trails ar a mess. Inte last section of Ridge Run down to th Canyon and Skytop cjairs looks like a mogul run. Time to call it a day before I do serious damage and blow the good feelings of the morning.
All thing considered probably the best ski day I've ever had. Today it's off the Sierra at Tahoe Joints still ache so it may be a good day for a lesson. More sun with highs of 46 predicted.
