March 2 & 3, 2013, Stevens Pass

3/2---arrived in late afternoon to light rain in the upper lot.  the top several inches of the snowpack were saturated.  Skied like June slush.  I got pretty damp in only four runs before dinner, but it was wet snow by 6 pm, then it snowed most of the night with lowering temps.

3/3---8-10" fresh atop a well-frozen base.  Quite good if you could plane over the rock-hard ruts and death cannonballs, but we ditched the back in late am for less impacted goods in Tye Bowl etc.  High winds continued atop Sky and Tye. A couple of hints of sun, and light snowfall most of the day kept the new snow fresh. March 4 should be nice!

Was there Sunday. Pretty good day. Mostly was on groomers and occasional side stashes w my daughter but took couple slack laps. The underlying frozen off the runs was least offensive in areas that were open and facing north (made a collapsing layer, but it worked). The frozen under was more offensive on south facing (eg Aquarius Face was terrible) or under trees (frozen bombs).

At one point while riding up DD we noted that it was snowing UP (snowflakes were passing us on their way uphill). Some of the new was a bit grauply.

Lots never filled, maybe a bit surprising for a Sunday that had a decent inbound forecast (and a perhaps overoptimistic Larry's Powder Alert call to action).