EMSC
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Frustratingly decent day.
Trying to mix things up a bit by at least occasionally going up into the central Mtns. But it's just so frustratingly decent. What the heck does that mean? Well if you have a young one and aren't going to wake them up at 5am, the drive is a PITA. An extra hour due to combination of going from 3 lanes to two on I70 plus the Rte 6 merge onto I70. Then the crowds and lift lines at the major resorts... To top it off the ridiculously poor layout of Winter Park and very unreliable lift(s).
Despite being breezy up top and the snow being super soft and buttery. It was quite warm, probably low to mid 30's at the base even at 10am when we got on the first lift. Parked on MJ side in the semi-remote Corona lot. Skiing down Sunnyside terrain to Panorama lift for Jr's first ever time above treeline in Parsenn bowl. Got lucky on timing as a squall with graupel moved in just after that run and eventually wind shut that and Eagle Wind lifts by early afternoon.
We tried to go back over to the Pioneer lift at the opposite end of the resort since Jr had loved that terrain last time we skied WP. We go there just in time for the worlds longest lift line at a broken lift (same one they almost had to evacuate last time we were there). Not that the lift lines at any of the lifts had been anything other than very long anyway. At one point they apparently told the fron of the lift line that it was shut and they had to hike out. A huge pile of people started hiking out of there (that lift is the lowest point in a small drainage not connected tot he rest of the resort). Only about 3-4 minutes later to start the lift up and start letting people back on. I can't imagine how pi$$ed some them must have been waiting for a broken lift then hiking only to have them start the lift and let other people on just after you got partway up the mountain. Ridiculous. Never seen anything like it.
We took a few more runs but despite the awesome and fun soft snow we left ~2p because we were tired of the crowds and had skied 4 hours continuous at that point anyway (only a couple of recent inches so not sure why it was so nice).
Anyway Jr was skiing faster and at least the actual skiing was nice. Probably try out Copper next time we decide to head to the central mtns (maybe next Sunday on Super Bowl Sunday? Hoping I70 won't be a PITA).
Trying to mix things up a bit by at least occasionally going up into the central Mtns. But it's just so frustratingly decent. What the heck does that mean? Well if you have a young one and aren't going to wake them up at 5am, the drive is a PITA. An extra hour due to combination of going from 3 lanes to two on I70 plus the Rte 6 merge onto I70. Then the crowds and lift lines at the major resorts... To top it off the ridiculously poor layout of Winter Park and very unreliable lift(s).
Despite being breezy up top and the snow being super soft and buttery. It was quite warm, probably low to mid 30's at the base even at 10am when we got on the first lift. Parked on MJ side in the semi-remote Corona lot. Skiing down Sunnyside terrain to Panorama lift for Jr's first ever time above treeline in Parsenn bowl. Got lucky on timing as a squall with graupel moved in just after that run and eventually wind shut that and Eagle Wind lifts by early afternoon.
We tried to go back over to the Pioneer lift at the opposite end of the resort since Jr had loved that terrain last time we skied WP. We go there just in time for the worlds longest lift line at a broken lift (same one they almost had to evacuate last time we were there). Not that the lift lines at any of the lifts had been anything other than very long anyway. At one point they apparently told the fron of the lift line that it was shut and they had to hike out. A huge pile of people started hiking out of there (that lift is the lowest point in a small drainage not connected tot he rest of the resort). Only about 3-4 minutes later to start the lift up and start letting people back on. I can't imagine how pi$$ed some them must have been waiting for a broken lift then hiking only to have them start the lift and let other people on just after you got partway up the mountain. Ridiculous. Never seen anything like it.
We took a few more runs but despite the awesome and fun soft snow we left ~2p because we were tired of the crowds and had skied 4 hours continuous at that point anyway (only a couple of recent inches so not sure why it was so nice).
Anyway Jr was skiing faster and at least the actual skiing was nice. Probably try out Copper next time we decide to head to the central mtns (maybe next Sunday on Super Bowl Sunday? Hoping I70 won't be a PITA).
