12/18 Crystal's nucelar pow fest

My apologies, too busy choking on fresh to take photos or vids. My O MY. Rolled in Wed Am, this morning there was nearly 2 feet of fresh on the roof of my jeep in B lot. Snowed off and on all day yesterday and all day today. It is still puking powder as I type. Cold temps and very low moisture content have made for unbelievable light, dry snow. Virtually no consolidation even after being ski cut. Patrol has been putting major effort into getting North and South back open, 6 ran all day with incredible face shots on every aspect. Hit upper E and lower bull late in the day and they skied as well then as they did in the am. If you haven't made it up yet NOW is the time. Dress warm, low teens and single digits forecast for the next few days. That is all

Oooh yes, nuclear pow-fest is right.

If we told you how good it was, you not believe us. Fresh tracks in smoke snow, Willy's run and my private stash was out of this world.
I am 56 winters old and I have never skied better Snow, ever. I too kept the camera stashed and just "skied my ass off" West face and Cold face held even deeper snow, but what the heck the snow was flowing over the shoulders all day long.
I topped the day with big run top to bottom from 6 to base and never once skied groomed. Went up the BW to see Tracy and have a beer to find out that Tracy is not working this year, if you know about the best ski tender alive, we have all lost something special. Tracy thanks for all the great chat over 13 years, Crystal is less of montian without you.
The Comas are ammazing.
I felt like I was in Sinners all day long.

One more thing, Hats off to the patrol for getting it all open, I saw them humpping boo all over the hill and pulling lines to make it all good in-bonds.
I heard they were out South trying to get that all strung out, not much fum in deep snow and carrying sleds to the King in this snow pack was a super human efforts on their part, again hats off to you guys and gals in the Swiss Army jackets.
WE understand it's still thin North and South and we all are still dancing to Ullr for a few more storms

Amazing! One is tempted to use the "E" word. Real face-shots in cold blower all day long. After failing to free my camera from my pack the whole day, I feel much better reading the prior posts confessing a similar unwillingness to stop skiing and start snapping pics. Ditto the kudos to the ski patrol, as they were truly busting their collective butts to get things open safely.

Be sure to check out Team Wally (Craig) on the latest Crystal Vision video (12-18 and 12-19 conditions) skiing and announcing.