March 17, 2011, Alpental

Greg, they closed it to do cornice work, then reopened it.
Sorry to have missed you both yesterday and the day before.

Ahh, probably a good idea. Sometime in the AM a rather large natural slide went around Knoll 3, probably prompted by a chunk falling off the cornice from the top.

Hit Alpy last night from 5-9 and had a great time on North Facing runs.
Best run was the high traverse over the waterfall ice to skiers right of ingrids.
Big grins were had

Actually Alpental is almost exclusively N-NE facing.  The exception is Edelweiss and assorted micro terrain features such as the back sides of the knolls, but other than that it's all North to Northeast.  Looking at the Green Trails map of the pass as I write to verify.

That's why the Alpy BC almost always has the best snow in the valley.

Plinko, I'm curious if we might know each other by face or have randomly skied together up there.  I'm the very shaggy guy with the orange jacket.

Corey, yeah we rode a lift or two together a few weeks back, me=nondescript red jacket/black pants on K2 SideStashs.  I've only been skiing for about 5 years now (recovering snowboarder) so I don't try to keep up with pros like you!

re: terrain aspect, with hi-t closed for cornice control, I was left with the Edelweiss side, and that's the terrain i made gross generalization about.  The only thing shaded on that side was E/NE aspect of Denny Mtn (which skied nicely long after lunch but required some skins). 

Variable is my best description for today.
Nash and adrenaline skied great....

Until you got to lower Nash where it was frozen chunk.
The far right side of Nash by the trees skied pretty well however and the groomers did a pretty good with the lower mountain.