Winter Park, CO 4-27-19

EMSC

Well-known member
Welcome to the Sierra.

Or at least the wet snowfalls they are typical of the sierra. 6" of new snow brought my son and I out for a little over half a day. THe snow was thick for Colorado and I never touched any refrozen base in any un-skied areas (creamy for sure). Fortunately it remained mostly overcast all morning keeping the dense new snow from getting to true mank for quite a few laps. Only the Mary Jane side is open this late (though gondola up/download from the winter park village is running, no skiing down to the base over there).

We got about 6 laps on Panorama in mostly un-touched or lightly touched snow before the sun started coming out with enough frequency to turn the new snow into too heavy to want to deal with. So then we skied 2 more laps on one of the more heavily skied ridge line runs before heading in for lunch. We didn't ski all that much after lunch as the new snow turned into super glue style sticky-ness. We beat it at ~1:30p after stopping by the Bronco's draft party at the base (Bronco's made day 3 draft picks from the base area with NFL network there videoing).

Currently 4-8" fell overnight last night along the divide areas with another 10-20" expected by end of Wed. Unfortunately not likely to be able to take off this week, but another storm may hit next week too so....

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I've only skied WP a handful of times but liked how there are four different sectors, each with distinct terrain.
 
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