snowave
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In Bend this week... Monday was fun, although we timed the transition a little late. Previous info was it didn't soften until 11 the day before, but the snow was corned up nicely when we arrived at 11:30, transitioning to a fun corn/slush mix (not too heavy). However, moderately big crowds (by my standards) mucked up a lot of the runs, which dampened my enthusiam some. Weather: Sunny and ~50 at the base.
We were too late for Cloudchaser's best snow, but Pine Marten and Skyliner both remained decent the remaining ~2 hrs we were there. Outback was running, but nobody was on it, which I found out because it was super thin and slow at the bottom. It was later revealed that it was the last day for that chair to run this season. Summit was closed, and has only been open 1 day this season... earlier in March. I've heard they want a deeper base to run the cats up there, etc... although it "looked" fine to me from the bottom, but they're also clocking winds near 150 mph at the top, so... We probably could've stayed a little longer, but I was starting to feel kinda crappy, so we left around 2:30.
Tuesday: Fog, wind and rain... so we stayed off the mountain. Also, I felt worse, so that didn't help. We went to Sisters to shop,etc.. and I ended up realizing i needed a chiropractor, so thankfully I found The Joint, in Bend that late afternoon- that does walk ins. I feel much better this AM.
Late last night while trying to go to sleep in the rocking trailer (wind, guys...)... I read that Bachelor was going to be closed today due to wind, yesterdays rain, and to preserve snowpack. Winds at top of NW Lift and the Summit are well over 100 mph this AM.
Tomorrow looks like a much nicer day, so hopefully we'll get to use day 2 of our 5 pack we bought last spring. Will probably head back home Friday AM, but a slight chance we may stay another day.
I don't take many picts since I'm riding with the wife, but this was Pine Marten when we arrived. Granted, the lift had been stopped for about 5 min, so lines the rest of the day were about half this length (5 min or less). p.s. the lines went a little further than the image shows.
We were too late for Cloudchaser's best snow, but Pine Marten and Skyliner both remained decent the remaining ~2 hrs we were there. Outback was running, but nobody was on it, which I found out because it was super thin and slow at the bottom. It was later revealed that it was the last day for that chair to run this season. Summit was closed, and has only been open 1 day this season... earlier in March. I've heard they want a deeper base to run the cats up there, etc... although it "looked" fine to me from the bottom, but they're also clocking winds near 150 mph at the top, so... We probably could've stayed a little longer, but I was starting to feel kinda crappy, so we left around 2:30.
Tuesday: Fog, wind and rain... so we stayed off the mountain. Also, I felt worse, so that didn't help. We went to Sisters to shop,etc.. and I ended up realizing i needed a chiropractor, so thankfully I found The Joint, in Bend that late afternoon- that does walk ins. I feel much better this AM.
Late last night while trying to go to sleep in the rocking trailer (wind, guys...)... I read that Bachelor was going to be closed today due to wind, yesterdays rain, and to preserve snowpack. Winds at top of NW Lift and the Summit are well over 100 mph this AM.
Tomorrow looks like a much nicer day, so hopefully we'll get to use day 2 of our 5 pack we bought last spring. Will probably head back home Friday AM, but a slight chance we may stay another day.
I don't take many picts since I'm riding with the wife, but this was Pine Marten when we arrived. Granted, the lift had been stopped for about 5 min, so lines the rest of the day were about half this length (5 min or less). p.s. the lines went a little further than the image shows.
