Really Big 50th Opening Day at Crystal. Pretty big crowd (thankfully REX was running – most of the time), pretty big back up early on the Gondy for the morning up-load, big activity getting CHex running to continue the big crowd up the mountain – once that got done things mellowed out with the crowd dispersed, early folks getting tired and leaving or heading in for food. Really nice small lines mid day till we finally left. Really big conditions – really! Way better than expected – still rocks in places, still brush poking through the snow, but I made it through the day with only a light ptex scratch on those dang Coombas! Have I ever said I really like my Coombas – truly thank you Doug! Big winds at times, nice snowfall at times, some almost sun (or at least very nice bright vis conditions), lots of fun friends around the mountain, lots of really big fast beat up my quad burning runs from IceFerkBerg (actually nice late) to Memorial, to Sunnyside, to Showtime, to Door 1 (big fun ouch). Best snow probably was in the Valley (especially the main bowl), but GVex was running just slow enough to make me go back to REX. Good solid firm frozen ice base covering up most of the nasty things – actually kinda lucky it was there with the new 0 to 8” new light smoke on top depending on where you were. Fun day (other than the 10 minute sit on REX mid morning – almost painful mentally). Got some pretty blown quads. Had lots of fun – dang it what’s new about that. Yee Haaa….. Pay lot didn’t make much effort today, rest of A full, C kinda light full, a few wide rows in B lot….so Crystal should have been happy all in all today – I know I was. ddk
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