Dec 28, 2010, Alpental, Nasty frozen-rain crust

Even a third of a foot of new overnight didn't help.

12/29/10 – Decided to try Silver Fir after hearing about 3-4 inches of new snow up there. Found 4-5 of fresh light and fluffy, but that was on top of a heinous inch thick ice crust. Still, we got some knee-tap firsties along upper Outback before it got tracked up. Dipped into the trees for a few turns, but it really was not worth it since below the ice crust was another 15 inches of snow before the pole push bottomed out. TomK & Kerry

Summit Snow-phone propaganda called this "Variable Conditions"

Variable Conditions - Conditions ranging from miserable to unskiable.

Note to self - stay home and get things done around the house when "variable conditions" are reported.

I was not up yesterday, but heard from guys on the lift it was nasty.

Pretty good today. Cold and 3-4 inches of light fresh on the groomed skied nice and smooth and another 2-4 inches fell this am. Up top there was closer to 10 inches I bet (plus the 17 from the last two days.) Nash was deep and soft top to bottom--crust broke up immediately and the skiing got better and better up there as the day went on!

crust broke up immediately and the skiing got better and better up there as the day went on!

Nice, the people I heard from that left Alpy for West\Central today were all before 1pm. Glad to hear that crust is getting buried and busted up.