tseeb
Well-known member
From Heavenly's Stagecoach base, I had a nearly 450 mile drive to West Wendover, NV via Genoa, Silver Springs and Fernley
(all NV). Friday morning, I had another 120 miles to Salt Lake City, then about 30 miles more to Park City. It was windy and warm in the parking lot, but I was skiing for free using one of the 5 CO/UT days I get on my (Vail) Tahoe Local Pass. I started on First Timer at 8:45 and skied it a few times before moving to Pay Day which I skied once before moving to the top via Pay Day and Bonanza (Crescent was closed, probably due to wind).
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Some runs on mostly protected Thaynes, where liftee said I was first one to ride it, were too firm early. Groomers on windy Motherlode and windier Silverlode showed similar high quality surface I've experienced at Heavenly this season. I moved to McConkey for three laps, first too-firm Sun Dog lookers right, then I carefully skied looker left side of McConkey's Bowl. After braving the top of Georgeanna, where not only was wind polishing the surface, but it was giving a additional push to gravity that made staying on the run and keeping speed under control difficult, I took Tycoon which I later saw was one of the Groomer's picks of the day and it was excellent.
I rode up Bonanza, required to get to the top and had some concern that it could close as wind seemed to pickup and chair slow to barely moving when we approached the top. I was wearing spring fleece gloves and a lightly insulated shell and the wind was strong enough to go through and chill me, even though temp was above freezing. I wanted to go back to car to get better gloves and add a layer, but was concerned that I could get stranded if Bonanza closed. Instead I skied a lap or two on Motherlode and Silverlode, then went into Miner's Camp lodge which, which is an upgraded copy of Northstar's Zephyr and Heavenly's Tamarack lodges.
After warming up a little I skied a couple of laps on King Con before going to top where Mountain Host said he didn't think Bonanza would close. He directed me to Crescent run which I used to get to the bottom and skied well. I added another shell and better gloves and returned to the top.
After a warmup on still very good Mikey's. I skied one of the Jack's to Thaynes then skied Blue Slip Bowl
to McConkeys. I repeated Tycoon, then skied top of Sun Dog which had softened and was much better than earlier in day. After skiing Buckeye and under lift to base, I did McConkeys Bowl, this time staying left at the top and sharing it with a few others. Snow was very good on the steeper upper parts of McConkey but it was starting to get harder to cross flatter bottom half to get back to chair. I went up Bonanza, then skied Silver Skis View attachment 4which was still good. I skied past the Village and not seeing or hearing band that was supposed to start at 3, quit at 3:45 with almost 29K. (hopefully to be continued)