EMSC
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Nice, winter day.
Really complex long story behind the scenes but I was at WP alone for the day. I was late; well, more precisely I was late for I70 traffic. With no traffic I would have been at WP by 9a. with traffic it was closer to 10:30a. Yep, that's how bad Colo is now on weekends. Especially Saturdays. In fact All WP parking and even close by overflow lots was long occupied. So I parked in the downtown parking garage and shuttled bused around which was shockingly convenient. Probably faster and easier than about 50% of the people parking at the resort, but in distant lots. I waited a total of about 30 seconds for a bus to the ski area and walked onto a waiting bus going back...
We're towards the end of a storm cycle and WP reported 3" overnight (18" in 72 hrs) with flurries and a chilly breeze blowing. I promptly headed for Eagle Wind for some pitch by taking the new Gondola out of the main WP base for my first time. It replaced a quad that used to have huge lines and with the gondola, those lines are fairly short now. Good upgrade capacity wise.
I had multiple laps on Eagle Wind going to at least Medicine Man section each time. While crowded for Eagle wind there wasn't a line of more than 4-5 chairs on any laps. Soft snow and if you know where to go some untouched or barely touched lines to ski starting about half way down. The upper part is always wind swept and skier sluffed to soft bumps.
I was getting a bit chilly (feet) so decided to grab a late lunch at Lunch Rocks at 1:45 for 15 minutes. During that time the wind picked up a bit more and heavier overcast came in. Nothing too bad really, but for whatever reason WP decided to shut down both Parsenn bowl and Eagle wind areas. Yet another thing I dislike about WP. Very illogical and weird operational decisions on top of it's already bad layout and lift network design, etc... If it weren't run by Alterra, I would simply chalk it up to being owned by the government (The owner is the City of Denver, Alterra just has an operating lease).
Anyway, I made some laps on the best part of Mary Jane hitting the chutes area a few times before heading back over to the Winter Park side of the hill for my final couple of laps since that is where I needed to catch the shuttle. Overall not a bad day, but WP being WP there is always some weirdness that creeps into the picture.
Unfortunately most of my pics just show snow conditions.
Really complex long story behind the scenes but I was at WP alone for the day. I was late; well, more precisely I was late for I70 traffic. With no traffic I would have been at WP by 9a. with traffic it was closer to 10:30a. Yep, that's how bad Colo is now on weekends. Especially Saturdays. In fact All WP parking and even close by overflow lots was long occupied. So I parked in the downtown parking garage and shuttled bused around which was shockingly convenient. Probably faster and easier than about 50% of the people parking at the resort, but in distant lots. I waited a total of about 30 seconds for a bus to the ski area and walked onto a waiting bus going back...
We're towards the end of a storm cycle and WP reported 3" overnight (18" in 72 hrs) with flurries and a chilly breeze blowing. I promptly headed for Eagle Wind for some pitch by taking the new Gondola out of the main WP base for my first time. It replaced a quad that used to have huge lines and with the gondola, those lines are fairly short now. Good upgrade capacity wise.
I had multiple laps on Eagle Wind going to at least Medicine Man section each time. While crowded for Eagle wind there wasn't a line of more than 4-5 chairs on any laps. Soft snow and if you know where to go some untouched or barely touched lines to ski starting about half way down. The upper part is always wind swept and skier sluffed to soft bumps.
I was getting a bit chilly (feet) so decided to grab a late lunch at Lunch Rocks at 1:45 for 15 minutes. During that time the wind picked up a bit more and heavier overcast came in. Nothing too bad really, but for whatever reason WP decided to shut down both Parsenn bowl and Eagle wind areas. Yet another thing I dislike about WP. Very illogical and weird operational decisions on top of it's already bad layout and lift network design, etc... If it weren't run by Alterra, I would simply chalk it up to being owned by the government (The owner is the City of Denver, Alterra just has an operating lease).
Anyway, I made some laps on the best part of Mary Jane hitting the chutes area a few times before heading back over to the Winter Park side of the hill for my final couple of laps since that is where I needed to catch the shuttle. Overall not a bad day, but WP being WP there is always some weirdness that creeps into the picture.
Unfortunately most of my pics just show snow conditions.
