And the rest of the early morning story…or part of it anyway. Figured with the big dump that today would be a cluster muck (could have used and F) of conditions based on previous “big” dumps at Crystal. So left extra extra early, lots of nuking snow driving up, various trees down across 410 covering ¾ of the road, managed to miss most of the branches at the last second in the snow storm, noticed the first expected clue about conditions in a dark Greenwater (no power…hhhmmm), got to the Blvd around 10th car back with the road closed while they plowed and removed down trees – only took an hour for that wait, but at least I was in front of the lineup. Pulled into the A lot, good, walk up to the lodge, opps, no power, dark and locked up (various employees saying cant let anyone in with no power????), changed in a dark basement hole, got into the third cluster mess of a line for CHex (lineup was almost as bad as a European lineup) since the not many lift opps were around to set anything up early. CHex was running, but at 9am some management types came out and said it would be 3 HOURS till anything opened AFTER the power was reconnected…hhhmm…guess I’ll bail, got a Awesome run from CHex to my truck, then spent an hour in traffic at the D lot and managed to finally drive through Greenwater after a 2+ hour stop and go trip – OUCH! 410 had multiple closed spots – DOT lot in Greenwater and the last one at Mud Mountain. Pretty painful all in all. Tomorrow should be Awesome and I’ll probably suffer the try again, with a lot of other pent up folks.
Other – no soup report (so sad), A lot full, C lot full, cars driving up while everyone else was driving down, lots of folks digging out there motorhomes and cars – remember to throw the snow shovel into the truck just in case. Power line from Crystal station to the base was broken somewhere. PSE was stuck in traffic going up while I was leaving.
Would have been a big crowd today.
