Sunday, January 10, 2010

December 26 with Julia. Beautiful, Fast and NO snow


Crystal is not exactly a great place to go groomer skiing, now is it? You have Lucky Shot, Ice Berg, the run down to Green Valley, and then all the Green/ Blue runs over on the left side, but those are pretty lame. So basically, you use it up pretty fast.
On this day there was virtually NO edge to be had either, especially on fat skis. It was so hard that we watched people release their edges and launch their asses into never, never land. Oh they landed all right, somewhere hard and immovable a lot of the times. Saw one helicopter and one aid car arriving, and I'll bet that wasn't the end of it.
As of January 9th, it's still not snowing much,,,er,,at all. Let the drought end! It's colder and snowier in Ohio than it is here. Jet stream needs to move.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Jan2, 2010. It's starting to snow again, but it's warm.

I didn't go today, but it looks to be getting better after a very long dry period. Here are the stats:
6" in the last 24 and 11" in the last 48 hrs at the summit. Base levels are now 40' at the base and 66' at the summit.
Let's hope it keeps raining/snowing up high as forecasted .