tseeb
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I skied 10-1:30, parking close to and riding Cornice chair. I started with E-facing Mokelumne, but found moderate sized bumps firm, then moved to NE and more shaded Sentinel and found more of the same. I skied the long steepish bumps OK, but the last short steep pitch on it was trying. I was a little stiff from my 4th day in a row and my season and moved to low-intermediate Timber Creek chair to loosen up with 4 quick laps on smoothly groomed snow. I went back to Cornice skiing Zachary’s the main NE-facing run under chair. The entry is guarded by large bumps and shows some rocks. I think they will only be able to groom once or twice and even then may stir up rocks and/or dirt.
Top of Cornice chair. Zachary's on left. Lookout Janek, where patrollers including one training with sled, are heading.
Kirkwood high was predicted to be 48, a couple of degrees higher than South Tahoe which did reach 48 (Truckee was 52/24). I was dressed the lightest of my 4 days with only a thin base layer and jacket, thinly lined pants and liner gloves and was warm enough early. I next skied Lookout Janek, finding better snow as it had received less traffic as middle of it was thin than usual due to some cliffs and rocks not being covered. Lower part was also good.
Middle (choke) of Janek above, more of it from chair below.
Next time up, I returned to Mokelumne, but it was still mostly too firm. After that I followed a couple of patrollers and another guy to Olympic which is very N-facing and steep enough to stay shaded and had best snow I found. I skied in 4 times in a row, riding chair 3x with Mitch who lives near Sacramento and was a dealer at Harrah’s and Heavenly Face Rat many years ago. He was a strong skier about my age who said I skied the narrow gully at bottom of steep part of Olympic more cleanly than him on my 1st time through it. The more open ridge is far to right of rocks on right of this photo.
I skied the gully exit twice more, but not as cleanly, and also found a jump to hit after crossing gully. Not too far below here I was always happy to reach the smooth fast groomer that had a nice high-speed launching point. I skied the more open ridge end on Olympic twice, using it once to return to Timber Creek chair where I did four more groomer laps. My last two Cornice laps were Sentinel where I found more shaded and less bumpy far right better than my early run and skied one of the steep shots past the Doobie cave, then going into the Ditch of Doom, very narrow now and one of my son's favorite's when he was little. I finished with one more Olympic which back in the day when shorter skis became popular had signs prohibiting less than 190s.
By 130, it was already starting to cool off and instead of adding more clothes I quit. Ski Tracks counted 20 runs and just over 20K. My watch was 150’ higher. EpicMix doesn’t seem to count runs vertical or do anything besides being what I hear is a poor substitute for a pass. I got home at 5:20 in time to take dog for short walk. My drive was only 3:40 including stop at fruit stand before Stockton to use outhouse and buy cucumbers and oranges. Traffic for the last 15 miles approaching and in San Jose, where official high temp was 71, was slow, but only added ~15 min delay.
Top of Cornice chair. Zachary's on left. Lookout Janek, where patrollers including one training with sled, are heading.
Kirkwood high was predicted to be 48, a couple of degrees higher than South Tahoe which did reach 48 (Truckee was 52/24). I was dressed the lightest of my 4 days with only a thin base layer and jacket, thinly lined pants and liner gloves and was warm enough early. I next skied Lookout Janek, finding better snow as it had received less traffic as middle of it was thin than usual due to some cliffs and rocks not being covered. Lower part was also good.
Middle (choke) of Janek above, more of it from chair below.
By 130, it was already starting to cool off and instead of adding more clothes I quit. Ski Tracks counted 20 runs and just over 20K. My watch was 150’ higher. EpicMix doesn’t seem to count runs vertical or do anything besides being what I hear is a poor substitute for a pass. I got home at 5:20 in time to take dog for short walk. My drive was only 3:40 including stop at fruit stand before Stockton to use outhouse and buy cucumbers and oranges. Traffic for the last 15 miles approaching and in San Jose, where official high temp was 71, was slow, but only added ~15 min delay.
