EMSC
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Super tired after day 3 of skiing. It's been very cold.
4F start on Sunday, though pleasant feeling with the sun out. GS race on the lower mtn. 1.5 inch snowfall added to 7 day total of 29inches. Skied very nice and soft mid-winter like, top to bottom. The opposite of its March reputation of warm and slushy/refrozen.
Monday, Today was so cold that about an hour or so into the day my phone shut itself off proactively to protect the battery it was so cold out. So all pics were taken early. 5 inch mid mountain report and 34 inch in 7days meant of corse very soft. The on hill reality was anywhere from 3inches to a mid mountain band of new snow that was knee deep for 500-800 vertical. Closet and Shadows time for sure (signature runs). Once those were getting skied out sides of Rolex and some areas off 4 Points area were super fun and nearly untouched until late day. Sun finally started to come out about 2:30p finally warming mid-mtn to about 10F by end of day. Not typical for low altitude place this late into March!
Sunday 26th pics
Sneaking in Thunderhead runs around the race...
Free skiing in Christmas tree bowl after the race.
Made 2nd to last chair on Pony Express lift
We did not night ski. All of three runs at the bottom.
March 26th pics
Not quite Tahoe or Mammoth, but a solid snow year measuring stick.
Scheduled since October. Totally could not have expected these conditions...
4F start on Sunday, though pleasant feeling with the sun out. GS race on the lower mtn. 1.5 inch snowfall added to 7 day total of 29inches. Skied very nice and soft mid-winter like, top to bottom. The opposite of its March reputation of warm and slushy/refrozen.
Monday, Today was so cold that about an hour or so into the day my phone shut itself off proactively to protect the battery it was so cold out. So all pics were taken early. 5 inch mid mountain report and 34 inch in 7days meant of corse very soft. The on hill reality was anywhere from 3inches to a mid mountain band of new snow that was knee deep for 500-800 vertical. Closet and Shadows time for sure (signature runs). Once those were getting skied out sides of Rolex and some areas off 4 Points area were super fun and nearly untouched until late day. Sun finally started to come out about 2:30p finally warming mid-mtn to about 10F by end of day. Not typical for low altitude place this late into March!
Sunday 26th pics
Sneaking in Thunderhead runs around the race...
Free skiing in Christmas tree bowl after the race.
Made 2nd to last chair on Pony Express lift
We did not night ski. All of three runs at the bottom.
March 26th pics
Not quite Tahoe or Mammoth, but a solid snow year measuring stick.
Scheduled since October. Totally could not have expected these conditions...
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There really are no nearby mtns of height in any westerly direction for quite some distance from here. So it gets huge orographic uplift from basically any westerly direction. While not super high elevation at only 10.5K up top, it is a 4,000 vertical foot rise from the nearby valleys and kind of a wall for storms/air. This orographic lift was demonstrated on multiple of my days here with cloud hanging over the upper mtn and sunny in town or even the bottom of the mtn. So it really just takes moist air it seems.