Interesting kinda day, interesting to see the impact from the big Tuesday dump, interesting to see the impact of somewhat wet conditions the last couple of days, interesting to hear some first had reports from the last couple of days. Unexpected early light snow falling at the base (not as wet as expected), really unexpected late opening – CHex started loading after 9:15 (because the upper mountain lifts were a frozen block of ice, does not explain why CHex took so long to start loading). Spent the first 45 minutes running Deer and Lower FerkBull runs, the Gondy started running at some point but the line up was past my crowd threshold. Bonus REX started loading just as I was getting ready to suffer FQex. Early in the day the fog/sun/clouds were multi layered and pretty, some bad some good, nice early views of the south side of Rainier (would have been a nice pic). Snow quality – if Crystal was a thousand feet higher there would have been 1200 feet of good quality snow. Half way down GV bowl got pretty challenging (maybe the Coombas might have liked it – maybe tomorrow). Based on that, I spent the very very short day doing soft carving turns with the AfterShocks on the groomers – except for the two good places, bumps down to Windy Pass from the front top of Crystal and the surprise bonus of a run down Frisco/Cisco old chair 5 line (only get to do that when I’m not willing to do HC, like today). Got a nice lonely bucket ride just before Noon which pretty much ended the good vis part of the day. Left extra early at 1:30, sad, got to foggy with the limited vis options even for me.
Other info – Pay lot was to big as normal, no real crowds, fairly dry day, soup was Loaded Baked Potato (looked nice), C and B lot had a few cars, 6 buses.
