EMSC
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Been an up and down spring, with short stretches (3-5 days each it seems) of warm and cool/storms. I have been too busy to post on some of it (maybe get around to it later?).
But have a short moment to post on yesterday. Multi-day storm cycle that should have hit ABasin more, but instead hit Copper much better so I went there instead (ABasin got maybe half as much each day). Copper Sunday report was 10" new (4" overnight), and 17" over 3 days. Todays report had another 5" on it, though it will warm up for a couple days before the next moisture comes back in.
Anyway. Surfaces basically fully softened by new snow for most of the vertical, a touch of underlying hardness due to less new snow lower down and eventually slight bits of warm softening on the bottom ~500-800 verts on Sunday.
28F first thing and mostly cloudy all day with a couple of short patches of sun. Perhaps 35F at the base by 3p when I quit.
A dozen lifts running. back side and left and right edges closed. Makes no sense that they didn't allow skiing down Alpine lift until the Bee Traverse though...
With good terrain much more limited I found lots of untracked or lightly tracked in places like Spaulding Bowl, 17 Glade, Gold Digger-ish area off Sierra. This track missed my first two runs though... About 23K of vertical for the day.
Snow squalls most of the day.
A bit wind affected on Storm King
Halleijulah Bowl shows that much of the areas was not wind affected
If you can't get a cell signal on the front side of Copper, you are doing it wrong...
Rare peak of sun. Note the full parking lots. Yet no more than 5-10 chair waits everywhere - except Sierra lift for unknown reasons (5-10min wait).
Not so much sun mixed in as well...
Short pitch, but very fun turns in Spaulding Bowl...
Patroller doing ski cutting in Spaulding bowl on my 3rd lap there.
Packed Sierra lift. Steep and soft, but other trails had nice sections of untouched 10"+ of powder if you know where to go...
Calling it a day at 3p and band about to start...
15minutes later and the sun is almost fully out for the first time of the day...
Check that... 15minutes after the sunshine it is nuking... and stayed that way for a while
But have a short moment to post on yesterday. Multi-day storm cycle that should have hit ABasin more, but instead hit Copper much better so I went there instead (ABasin got maybe half as much each day). Copper Sunday report was 10" new (4" overnight), and 17" over 3 days. Todays report had another 5" on it, though it will warm up for a couple days before the next moisture comes back in.
Anyway. Surfaces basically fully softened by new snow for most of the vertical, a touch of underlying hardness due to less new snow lower down and eventually slight bits of warm softening on the bottom ~500-800 verts on Sunday.
28F first thing and mostly cloudy all day with a couple of short patches of sun. Perhaps 35F at the base by 3p when I quit.
A dozen lifts running. back side and left and right edges closed. Makes no sense that they didn't allow skiing down Alpine lift until the Bee Traverse though...
With good terrain much more limited I found lots of untracked or lightly tracked in places like Spaulding Bowl, 17 Glade, Gold Digger-ish area off Sierra. This track missed my first two runs though... About 23K of vertical for the day.
Snow squalls most of the day.
A bit wind affected on Storm King
Halleijulah Bowl shows that much of the areas was not wind affected
If you can't get a cell signal on the front side of Copper, you are doing it wrong...
Rare peak of sun. Note the full parking lots. Yet no more than 5-10 chair waits everywhere - except Sierra lift for unknown reasons (5-10min wait).
Not so much sun mixed in as well...
Short pitch, but very fun turns in Spaulding Bowl...
Patroller doing ski cutting in Spaulding bowl on my 3rd lap there.
Packed Sierra lift. Steep and soft, but other trails had nice sections of untouched 10"+ of powder if you know where to go...
Calling it a day at 3p and band about to start...
15minutes later and the sun is almost fully out for the first time of the day...
Check that... 15minutes after the sunshine it is nuking... and stayed that way for a while
