Ok , after watching video clips of the Jay powder looked out at the Laurentian landscape covered in a few inches of new snow with more in the forecast . Take what you can get . Older kids didn't have to teach skiing today and they wanted to go to La Reserve . So off we went crossing over the Laurentian shield from Morin Heights to St. Donat thru the fog with light snow falling . La Reserve is one big rock pile sticking out of the Laurentian shield . Had to adjust my skiing as have been lucky this year floating in lots of powder. Not the case at La Reserve today . The steep tight tree runs were scraped down with stumps and rocks showing requiring a quick wake up call and technical quick turns . The open face of La Reserve was skiable with lots of cliffs and frozen water falls to jump from . The steep frozen waterfalls at La Reserve and tight woods to the sides would challenge any eastern skier. A cliff jumpers paradise . The uphill lift capacity of 2/ 4 person chairs and steep terrain leads to the steep sections being scraped down rather quickly . Today had its moments but i just wasn't in the game today . Kids said you have been skiing too much powder . Checked out the Snow Cat skiing ( yes - snow cat in the Laurentians if you can believe it ) which has remained closed. Ski Patrol came over and told me might look good from up top but lots of rocks on the way down. For a extra $10.00 want to try this but hardly ever opened .