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January 30, 2011 Alpental

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15 years 2 weeks ago #216748 by Chuck C
January 30, 2011 Alpental was created by Chuck C
Snowing lightly when we got there then the weather dried a bit and that stopped. Did a lap down Debbie's which offered hard to see bumps in the thickening fog. Headed up chair 2 for a few runs. Got up above the fog and there was plenty of acceptable snow up there. Traversed out to powderbowl for a run (good), down rollen (good). Finally went down Nash where the upper entrance wasn't all rocks. Run down was good and I had it to myself (everyone else was going out the Nash gate, where I was told the skiing was better) but the fog intensified on the way down. By the Snake Dance turn off it was really bad. Went over to lower international and the snow was heavy chunky and not a lot of fun. Plus the fog was limiting visibility to a few meters. Got down to Sessel to deeper fog and a HUGE gaping whole in the middle of the run. Neat rock slab with waterfall at the bottom, just don't fall in. One last run up Armstrong and down Debbie's confirmed that the fog was so thick it was approaching dangerous.

So big open cracks above the base, above the lower gun, in the middle of Sessel, at the bottom of Ingrids. At least Chair 2 is holding up otherwise there may be some carries needed soon.

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15 years 2 weeks ago #216749 by haggis
Replied by haggis on topic Re: January 30, 2011 Alpental
Reason folk were going out Nash gate was because it was actually very good in the AM, PM did indeed suck with very poor vis! We did a few Knoll 1 and 1 Great Scott in PM which we aborted going to the pass due to the rising fog. Lots of slides also in the draft dodger cliffs to great scott, don't know if they were cut or natural since we could hardly see.

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