tseeb
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After skiing, I worked on cabin roof for an hour and a half, uncovering skylights and ice dams on edges that I hope continuing warmer weather will either melt or make fall from roof. Very busy in restaurants and stores on CA side of Stateline. I will ski Heavenly from 830-10, then head home from trip that started on 2/17.
On Saturday, I loaded Gunbarrel chair at 8:25. I could have been a little earlier, but had to return to car when I realized pole-ing towards chair that I had grabbed my wife’s poles. I rode Sky chair 4 times, skiing upper CA runs the first three before taking Milky Way to Nevada to Stagecoach base. From the top of Stagecoach, I skied upper, then main North Bowl which continues to get groomed and mostly go unskied. I rode slow North Bowl chair, then Comet chair chair and skied to CA trail by cutting into wood off 49er trail. Instead of taking probably re-frozen S and W facing Maggie’s Canyon, I wrapped around knoll between there and Sky Deck, traversing about reservoir to get to a little of Maggie’s, then Stein’s Way. On my way there, I nearly was thrown into a tree when I was trying to look ahead and around corner to see if there was a creek to cross and buried a sky in deep snow before losing both of them.
After riding Groove chair, I skied to Tram base via Advanced Roundabout, The Pistol (very good winter-like snow along more shaded left side) and groomed lower part of Face/East Bowl. Ski Tracks said I was out just over 2 hours, skied 6 runs/11.5K vertical and hit 50.5 mph (which is possible as I could not find top end of the DPS Cassiars I was skiing fast early on Sky Chair and on empty North Bowl). My watch counted 10 runs and 12.1K. EpicMiss said I rode 3 lifts for 3,250 vertical. On Friday, EpicMiss said I rode 3 lifts for 3,260 vertical. My season vertical is 1.01M, the earliest ever over 1M.
I’ll put a short trip summary here as I’m not sure when I’ll have time to write more reports.
Miles driven: 3,937 Fuel used: 204.5 gallons Mpg: 19.3 (lower than usual, some from high speeds)
Saw fuel for $1.99 at Evanston and it was $1.94 at Costco SLC, but went up to $2.09 by time I bought
Most expensive fuel: Tank in Canmore, AB at C$1.09/l=C$81.50=US$62+ also paid $1.29/l in Revy, BC
Ski days: 26 Ski days with substantial powder: 18 New ski areas visited: 0
Days on Tahoe Local Pass: 3 1/2 (Two@Heavenly, one@Park City and was able to get 1/2 price for me and buddy ticket for Tony Crocker at Stevens even though a couple of employee said I had no benefit)
Days on Ikon Pass: 17 (Crystal 2, Revy 1, Big Sky 3, Jackson 3, Deer Valley 1, Altabird 5, Brighton 2)
Days not on pass: 2 (Ashland 1/2 day holiday - $45 + $6 snow park, Apex US$67.82)