Mar 20, 2014, Alpental, Deja Vu

Déjà vu, (/ˌdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/) from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not.

In a way, you could say that today was a repeat of Tuesday. Except the highway was a little sportier on the way up, the snow was fresher and softer underneath, the gates opened about 45 minutes earlier and there were about 45 fewer folks out competing for the goods. The sun made an appearance early and while the skies were too patchy for a full-blown "CODE BLUE" alert, Sol's rays kissed the northern aspects with shadows and sparkled through the powder clouds hanging above each turn.

Whereas on Tuesday, I bagged a mixture of laps up high and down low, today was all about the top to bottom. From great fresh tracks down L'Internashionale hot on the tails of flowing alpy, to first tracks down Elevator proper and the honor of laying trail along the first knoll into Brownie Bowl, today reigned supreme. If Tuesday was an A+, today was an A++. If this is what spring has in store for us, I say, "Bring it on!"

It was nice up there this morning!

was even nicer throughout the afternoon as we plunged further into the heart of the hummox plowing fast and hard into unicorn.
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First tracks down draft dodger thru suckers and then great scott to big trees. Wohoo. Before that Nash, Shot 6 and E gate > GB trees. 12:30 pm and whipped from 5 days on the road and landing at midnight. LOL. What a day!!

it was way better than nice, it was spectacular.
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