The quintessential spring skiing day.
Bright sun, nice temperatures (and not TOO warm), well groomed groomers, and slushy bumps.
Amazing views to all directions particularly North to Glacier, and ESE to a snowy Stuart. Fairly well attended day, including many involved in a Hope on the Slopes event.
Tye Mill Skid Road had some quite amazing "shave ice" much like I remember from Utah ski areas in spring a few years ago.
Because I hadn't been there for a while, took one sidecountry to Highline Bowl, in hopes that trees and north facings just past ropeline had preserved something. Alas, surface crust. Actually better where sun HAD hit recently to soften. Decent spring snow til perhaps 4800 feet, including areas of forest that were open enough to not have treedrip. But below here, was either dripcrust or nasty thick glop, no middle ground. And traverse back not so much fun due to dripcrust and some tricky drainage crossings. So, maybe not so worth it. Today was plainly about the slushy bumps, not warmed over untracked.
Lots of obvious sun induced southfacing slide evidence seen from distance: on Skyline, Lichtenberg, Windy Point, Jove Union, etc.
