…of my season, at least. And so, loyal readers (all 5 of you) my season ends. It’s not that I don’t like spring skiing. In my 07/08 season, I skied until May 11, and in 08/09, I went to the Slush Cup (and got over 41,000 vertical meters during May to boot). Here’s my stats [...]
What a difference between Saturday (the perfect spring day), Sunday (still a good one) and today. It rained yesterday all the way to the top of the Angel Traverse and the Sunshine Coast traverse. This “punched” the snow (in the words of one patroller I spoke to), and spring closures due to excessive avalanche risk [...]
A high haze hung out all through the morning and into the early afternoon preventing the sun from doing it’s thing, and also keeping the temp lower than predicted. Yesterday’s perfect day left in its wake a refreeze of death cookies everywhere except the groomed stuff (and some of the groomed stuff, like Hill 205, [...]
When I think about what would make a perfect spring skiing day, it would be: bluebird skies, bright sun, temps just above zero, a deep snowpack so that no rocks pop up, a small crowd, winter conditions in the AM to get warmed up on… and that was today. On my only morning run on [...]