Crystal 3/14 upper Mt. closed

In the past I have been extremely impressed with Crystals ability and effort to open the Mt. Not so today.This seems to be a growing trend. Decisions appear to be made by forecasts rather than actual Mt. observations.

It became very obvious that the powers to be at Crystal decided not to open the upper mountain last night. The ski patrol arrived at the Chinook express at 8:50. No effort was made even after winds died significantly mid morning. I had a conversation with a REX lift operator who commented that if it was a Saturday the lift would have run.

I know I paid as much for my pass as weekend skiers. The Constitution of America guarantees that all skiers shall be treated equal. Clearly this is unconstitutional and therefore UnAmerican.

Let the bombing begin!!!

Gotta agree...My version of today - Yee Haa…The Crystal accounting department looks to be in control for the last month of the regular winter season, who ever pulled the plug on any chance of running REX must be a pretty big guy in the decision process…I just checked the telemetry for today – it was windy early, but the trends showed decreasing gusts and that was what I noticed as the day progressed (I’ve skied in a lot nastier winds earlier this season), but since today was only a late season week day and who ever was in charge today – there was no afternoon bonus of a upper mountain opening, which is really sad based on expected conditions for the next 24 hours…oh well, skied even more lines that I don’t get the chance to anymore, the snow quality was great and getting deeper all day, the number one spouse had a lot of fun, the other hard cores that expected more today were also disappointed like me, but still appeared to make the best, the crowd was fairly big considering the limited options, but the lift lines were non-existent. Did hear patrol bombing the Queen during the afternoon, so if anything is open tomorrow at least it will be prepped already. BP’s was the early day high point, but the ice sheet on the traverse in is a killer from FQex. Managed a lot more skiing and a longer day than expected. The soup of the day (the only soup) was Potato, the pay lot was unexpectedly big and not unexpectedly empty when we drove away, some cars in B and C had a fair number. Think I’ve paid a lot of dues recently for a lot of ….

Sorry guys, I must support the mountain on the call today. Tower 15 winds ran a sustained 50 all morning,with several 70 gusts, somewhat mitigating after 1pm. Considering that Rex and 6 needed to be dug out, PB AC'd, the entire Exterminator/Bull area AC'd there simply wasn't enough time. Yesterdays AC produced a 5' crown on E proper and last nights winds and temps were perfect for a repeat. I saw the owner on the hill accessing the conditions with Patrols lead throughout the day. I am confident the decision was not based on economics, rather safety of guests and staff. Ski cutting and bomb throwing let alone hiking and climbing in today's conditions simply were not prudent.

Stop the hateful coral reef building

I'm sure that all is true and usually the mt does make lots of effort to get the top open, just a little dispointed based on sadly for me late decisions this week by Crystal...even the posted condition reports this morning in the lodge indicated the very positive prospects for the day (and yes I've heard the disclaimers - kinda like if I get stuck on a lift for and hour and dont deserve any comps)...but Northway would be open today? I always appreciate all the crews efforts to dig and blow and keep me safe in bounds and always make sure they all know it. But guess I cant see the telemetry that you mention...and yes I'll go back, just wish I'd gone with my gut and headed to one of the passe's.

I'm also gradually becoming more disappointed in these trends, and the fact that mid-week powder days seem to be more like your typical Saturday make me glad to own skins. Makes me wonder if I'll continue purchasing a mid-week pass...

...today was one of those days where you needed to invent your own lower mountain fun...with respect to wind speeds...where is tower 15?...does tower 15 house the upper mountain (non-GV) sensors that feed various web sites?...and are there internal telemetry sensors (data) that the mountain does not share?...

...extracted from nwac is the data for last night and today...note that in order to generate an "average wind speed", there must be multiple measurements per hour -- is it the average of measurements taken each minute for 60 minutes, eg?...

      Hour   Wind  Wind  Wind  Wind 
                  Min    Avg   Max    Dir
              6830' 6830' 6830' 6830'

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  3 14  1900       8    23    40   205
  3 14  1800     10    21    37   223
  3 14  1700     13    26    44   229
  3 14  1600     11    27    45   213
  3 14  1500       9    20    41   237
  3 14  1400       5    19    42   219
  3 14  1300     15    27    46   219
  3 14  1200     13    27    44   178
  3 14  1100     18    34    54   175
  3 14  1000     23    40    60   213
  3 14   900      22    46    71   173
  3 14   800      17    39    68   208
  3 14   700      15    33    53   181
  3 14   600      16    33    59   165
  3 14   500      10    28    46   205

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  3 14   400        8    23    43   224
  3 14   300      10    23    36   199
  3 14   200        4    17    31   185
  3 14   100        7    16    28   192
  3 14     0        10    22    32   207
  3 13  2300       6    18    27   248
  3 13  2200       3    13    23   219