Thanks for the comments !
Yes, it has taken a few days to do, because of the complexity of certain scenes. We also worked hard on our new website and our good old one...
Once we're back home, I will write a report mixing day 3, 4 and 5.
What I can say now is that the mountain was just way better than our best expectations !
I seriously thought I would only have the chance to ski the general public line + the lower palmer trail to the Palmer lift.
We had (other than that) :
- skied at least 40 runs down other lines on the Palmer snowfield
- access to 3 other runs to get back to the Palmer Chairlift
- the Magic Mile skiable on East Mile, groomed, adding almost 1000' vertical
- A snowfield and glacier almost just for us
- The huge snowpark canyons at the bottom of the Palmer, (closed but who cares after skiing down the glacier, at 3h PM). One of these canyons was skiable almost to the hotel, with just a short walk of 100' long in the middle part and a 1000' long walk at the bottom.
- Access to the top part of the Magic Mile trails, with a short walk to get back on East Mile.
+ there was no crowd, the skies were blue and the weather was nice, not too warm, not too cold, on 4 of our 5 days out there (the 1st day was in freezing rain, sleet and a bit of snow)
It's sure that I've not skied anything else on the west coast or in the rockies, but especially in august, this was a wonderful trip and for us, Timberline Lodge is quite far to be over-rated. Obviously, this is just our opinion...
Actually, Christophe told me this week that the summer skiing on the mountain was better that any of the numerous glaciers he has skied in this time of the year, in the Alps...
