After a sketchy bc day we awoke Sunday at the Mountaineers Lodge to a "Mt. Baker 4 inches"---we could barely recognize our car under a foot of new. 45 minutes wait for Chair 1 to open was well worth it; Lisa and I ran laps on Pan Face finding good tracks all morning. Breezy and low vis. sent us to Chair 6 after lunch and we hunted fresh in the trees until closing.
The area board Monday said 3" new, but it seemed twice that, and it dumped almost all day. Not incredibly dry, but steady snowfall, gusty and whited out every ride up 6 so much that my goggles got soaked between the lenses. I met TAY-er Kenji, also staying at the Mountaineers, tele-ing with his daughter Amy, and took a few runs of great stuff in the trees between 6 and 4. Susan and Peter from Seattle, also at the Lodge last weekend, who I had met Sat. up towards Artist Point, rode with me on 6 all day, and it was so snowy-blowy that it was filling in some every run. We skied by feel down from the top of 6, hit the steeps and trees, boarded the chair, battened the hatches against the wind, and did it again.
From what I've heard Baker got more than any other area over Pres. Day (close to 2' new in 48 hours) but more is on the way.
Only surface sloughs on Pan, but Canyon and Hemishperes are closed for the foreseeable future.
My knees are aching from 2 straight days of lift tele-ing.....happy daze are here again.
