EMSC
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Exceptional.
Exceptionally soft snow, exceptionally slow drive, exceptionally large number of people.
After 36" in 4 days (through friday's am report) we headed up with a plan to arrive ~15 minutes before opening. I knew after the foot on the flatlands and bitter cold all week that it would drive a lot of folks up to go skiing. I did not expect to be in stop and go bumper to bumper traffic from the Barker Dam (pre Nederland) all the way to the ski area, especially being a touch earlier than Eldora's typical crowd that slams in closer to 10am. Simply unprecedented in my 18 years of skiing Eldora.
The snow was ever so soft and spectacular though. With the whole family skiing we lapped Indian Peaks several times on lower Diamond back (was a terrain park for the last ~5 years). It appeared to maybe have been groomed mid-way through the storm cycle but not in the last couple of days and was super soft. We then tried out Muleshoe with similar results hitting one of the new trails before lunching it at the top of Corona. Standing room only soon after we got there. Never seen the place so busy. and the lines on Corona chair were as long as they ever get too (seen that a handful of times per year the last couple, but not often).
After lunch Jr wanted to go back to Indian peaks which we did for 3 more laps using a slightly different route via Windmill (vs Hornblower). and finished with a single lap on the frontside before pulling the plug at 2:30 just as the next storm was starting to blow in with gusts and cloudiness.
I didn't really get a chance to explore at all to find leftovers. Perhaps this weekend after the current storm cycle...
Exceptionally soft snow, exceptionally slow drive, exceptionally large number of people.
After 36" in 4 days (through friday's am report) we headed up with a plan to arrive ~15 minutes before opening. I knew after the foot on the flatlands and bitter cold all week that it would drive a lot of folks up to go skiing. I did not expect to be in stop and go bumper to bumper traffic from the Barker Dam (pre Nederland) all the way to the ski area, especially being a touch earlier than Eldora's typical crowd that slams in closer to 10am. Simply unprecedented in my 18 years of skiing Eldora.
The snow was ever so soft and spectacular though. With the whole family skiing we lapped Indian Peaks several times on lower Diamond back (was a terrain park for the last ~5 years). It appeared to maybe have been groomed mid-way through the storm cycle but not in the last couple of days and was super soft. We then tried out Muleshoe with similar results hitting one of the new trails before lunching it at the top of Corona. Standing room only soon after we got there. Never seen the place so busy. and the lines on Corona chair were as long as they ever get too (seen that a handful of times per year the last couple, but not often).
After lunch Jr wanted to go back to Indian peaks which we did for 3 more laps using a slightly different route via Windmill (vs Hornblower). and finished with a single lap on the frontside before pulling the plug at 2:30 just as the next storm was starting to blow in with gusts and cloudiness.
I didn't really get a chance to explore at all to find leftovers. Perhaps this weekend after the current storm cycle...