Crystal - Jan 2, 2008

Wow!
After skiing Crystal for 18 years this is one of the deepest days I've ever seen. Thigh deep is not much of an exaggeration over most of the mountain. Low temperatures and 14 inches overnight nixed any crust from the rain/snow mix yesterday.
Patrol did a great job getting terrain open, even chair 6 around 11.
Some of the best resort skiing I've ever had in Washington.
Should still be good until the rain on Tuesday.

Wow!
After skiing Crystal for 18 years this is one of the deepest days I've ever seen. Thigh deep is not much of an exaggeration over most of the mountain. Low temperatures and 14 inches overnight nixed any crust from the rain/snow mix yesterday.
Patrol did a great job getting terrain open, even chair 6 around 11.
Some of the best resort skiing I've ever had in Washington.
Should still be good until the rain on Tuesday.

It sure was GOOD today.

I agree, I have had face shots before but never the fabled white room. Today I got the white room. Deepest day I've ever had at Crystal. Northback opened at about 2.00pm but snow was more wind affected than the east facing slopes.

My son Stewie, set off a slide that run about 50-75 ft with a 1' crown on a steep rollover on RA Trees above the cat track. Proper slab, not a sluff. East Facing, probably 35 deg, guess 5500 ft elev.
Took him for a ride and buried him to his waist standing up, minus one ski. Joedabaker, Carol and I where close and no harm done. We where all wearing beacons and Stewie had Avalung deployed ready for use. Didn't slow him down for the rest of the day.

He was skiing Megawatts, 125 mm waist and I have a developing theory that wide skis produce such a large ski cut in a very forceful turn that they may be more liable to create a slide than narrow skis. Just a theory based upon my personal experiences lately,probably wrong!

What with tree well submersion last week and a nice 1.5 ride the" fruit of my loins"is getting an education.

I echo the stoke on today!

My first three runs down the frontside were so good.

I only wish I was on bigger skis, the tips on my 189 Seth's were regularly gasping for air... I usually can keep them swimming head high, but not today.

Right Angle was going off probably the best I've ever skied it.

I hit chair 6 about thirty mins after it opened, which was 30 mins to late. The line was super long and the face was riped to shreds with a few ski tracks and numerous sluff lines. A buddy of mine went for a ride in a slab that spooked him pretty good, after the first ride he got hit by a second slide and ended up losing a ski, but was super happy to just be ok (I didnt witness the incident, but heard about it 3rd hand).

I had a couple runs in Northback which was ok, but nothing could top the frontside and right angle in the morning.

Please realize how unstable the snowpack is right now and be super safe.

Even after being unlucky enough to be barely caught behind the down tree on 410 we got over the head shots off High Campbell and Northback. Echo the efforts of Crystal Mountain (who often take some heat) at getting these areas open for those of us who missed the morning. Crystal was reporting 15 inches at the base overnight and 17-18" up top (over-night). Those are unbelievable totals; however, when looking at the cars parked overnight which were almost completely buried, we believed Theih deep powder on our first run made it sink in. We didn't see any instability, but we missed the morning also. Snow will be amazing all weekend.