Powder, powder everywhere! I woke up this morning to find an inch of freshly fallen snow at my condo. I didn't give it much thought, and slowly got ready for the mountain, at breakfast etc. Much to my delight, when I got to the mountain, it was DUMPING hard. It was apparent that the snow was deep.
I took one warmup run down the groomed, and then ventured over to liftline / national on my Rossi 9S race ski, which sucks it up big time in the pow. So, I was forced to demo the Dynastar 8000 again today (had to pay $36), but it was well worth it because of the fresh snow. I was skiing in variable shin / knee deep pow with the occasional face shot on the front four, nose dive, and hayride. The coverage was excellent, aside from a few water bars here and there. Again, the snow was deep and soft
Why am I already done for the day? Well, two reasons: my foot is killing me, and apparently it's a bad idea to poach liftline after the snow has stop and visi has improved enough for the patrollers to see you. Doh, he told me to go home and come back tomorrow.
All in all, I still got about 8 very decent pow runs in, and had one of the best times skiing in my entire life. The mountain was empty, and since the trails I were skiing were closed, the general public stayed off of them and only the "adventerous" skiied them. As a result, there was still very much powder skiing to be had at 1:15PM. At times, I honestly felt like I was skiing out west because on goat and starr, I didn't run into anyone else the entire way down.
I took one warmup run down the groomed, and then ventured over to liftline / national on my Rossi 9S race ski, which sucks it up big time in the pow. So, I was forced to demo the Dynastar 8000 again today (had to pay $36), but it was well worth it because of the fresh snow. I was skiing in variable shin / knee deep pow with the occasional face shot on the front four, nose dive, and hayride. The coverage was excellent, aside from a few water bars here and there. Again, the snow was deep and soft
Why am I already done for the day? Well, two reasons: my foot is killing me, and apparently it's a bad idea to poach liftline after the snow has stop and visi has improved enough for the patrollers to see you. Doh, he told me to go home and come back tomorrow.
All in all, I still got about 8 very decent pow runs in, and had one of the best times skiing in my entire life. The mountain was empty, and since the trails I were skiing were closed, the general public stayed off of them and only the "adventerous" skiied them. As a result, there was still very much powder skiing to be had at 1:15PM. At times, I honestly felt like I was skiing out west because on goat and starr, I didn't run into anyone else the entire way down.
