January 5, 2014 Crystal Mountain

A lot of ice and rocks and a couple of really nice areas. We hung out on Powder Bowl's Main Chute till noon after a quick round of poking found lots of marginal coverage and skidded ice. Powder Bowl required a sidestep/walk through dirt and rock to get in – the weekend crowd hasn't been nice. Once in, it was smooth, narrow, and fast. Green Valley Bowl, north side was nice, but not much after that. After noon, the very sunny aspects below mid-Frontside softened, although rocks kept all but Upper Greg's Gulch and Lower Sunnyside in the loser column. By day's end, the bottom of Sunnyside's funnel was mandatory rock hits. Slim pickins, but good pickins.

Ken
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I had my 1st turns of the year and decided to ski the groomers. On 3rd run did Snorting elk not realizing it was ungroomed and fell on bottom creek crossing at very low speed and broke bone in writing hand. Out for month at least.

Moral of story is don't ski when you can snowboard instead.

At least I made the sacrifice to Ullr for the rest of you, it shoud dump non-stop for next 4 wks as result of this.

Sorry, conditions have been marginal. But I dont know about the ski vs board thing....usually snowboarders screw up their wrists. But anyway thanks for your part - weather forcast for a while sound nice.....thanks again.

forecasts are just a tease.
b

At least I made the sacrifice to Ullr for the rest of you, it shoud dump non-stop for next 4 wks as result of this.

You know, you can still ski with a broken wrist in a cast. A large fleece mitten in an XL waterproof shell mitten and one pole. Did that for 8 weeks one year. (the next year was 8 weeks with the other pole nursing a blown up elbow). Although with this year's snow, might not be worth the effort.

forecasts are just a tease.
b

Agree, but don't we all spend a lot of bandwidth trying to figure it out?

Ken