February 8, 2013 Crystal

Jill, Hillary, Dale, Jim and I had a great day in the sun.  The temperature was in the mid 20 temperatures.  The group was large for a Friday.   I did not want the long walk to the lifts so we parked at sign “D”.  They planned to run the shuttle all day and they did. We skied all the groomers till 2pm.  Some of the group skied off the groomers and had variable conditions. The Saturday group may be fun but there will be a big group.  Parking near a sign will be a good idea.  The groomers will be good until the masses scrape the slopes. It was sunny until we got to Enumclaw.

The sunny aspects (aka Frontside) were quite bad. The more north-facing and shaded you went, the better. Powder Bowl and Campbell East were good, Northway was great – everywhere. Grooming was very good early but scraped later (Iceberg). Sunny and cool, there was just a little sun impact that will lower quality of sunny aspects till they're skied out, and shaded aspects will stay nice.
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And a comment for Eskinmo - Two reports today and no Soup report - What????? I have to suffer being a good person today and nobody will spend 2 wasted minutes to check the CB lodge soup report for me? All the grief about really important ski info that I get....whats up with the lack of full non related to skiing info on these reports....and how full was the pay lot. How long was the wait for you Zap for the cattle shuttle? D sign - is that the D lot....thats about half way to Green Water from what I remember. Ha Ha...sorry its been a very long day.