Crystal - 03/23

My pic...note the line on the very left of the Queen!  Watched that person doing it! Gotta say I was impressed!

Lowell - awesome line - way to set the bar
Freebird - were those the H2Os I rode up with as I unfortunately had to leave? Nice visuals.
BB - Tall Bob with a helmet? whoa, no wonder I couldn't find ya.

Kkz

My pic...note the line on the very left of the Queen!  Watched that person doing it! Gotta say I was impressed!

Line on the left was Matt Small

Yes, a nice day. Only my second day at Crystal this year (pretty sad).

The opening of Powder Bowl to hiking made up for it.

I was in the right place at the right time and followed Brent Okida up the west ridge just after they opened it.

Crystal ski patrol rocks! They did a ski cut near the ridge, but left the bowl pristine for the skiing public. Here's a "before" picture showing the bowl in the morning and a picture after I made the first of my four runs.

Very nice turns, Lowell and four runs is very impressive. We did one and I think we were in the second dozen. And it was nice to see Brent Okita up there - he is also a "stud" going up. In other news, it was my 42nd day at Crystal.

Very nice day, looked a little iffy early with some clouds, but today was pretty much big sunny and blue.  No real lift lines except for once late morning when passing by GV Chair.  Even with all the sun and telemetry saying it was warm, I never could actually down size to Hawaii shirt and light gear.  Early day was GV bowl and high speed Middle Ferk runs or Lucky Shot.  Later morning was starting to poke around the sun baked edges – Lucky bumps, lower Ferk and once out Kellys gap to Lower E.  Every thing down low that was sun baked was nice (if you like spring mush). Best sun baked runs on REX were chair line and the Gully between Sunnyside and Memorial Forest ( did that one way to many hamster times).  Big thing today was when PB opened up for hikers – very pretty early for the first hour, congrates to all that did those pretty turns.  Might post a before and after pic a little later today. Could also see lots of nice turns out south all over the King and farther out.  Another fun day on the slopes, what else?  Since the season is almost over (1 month of winter season left) even a weekend is no longer that crowded on the slopes or lifts. Heard it was not to busy yesterday either.

Other – Soups at CB lodge were Triple C and Ched Broc. (and no I did not eat either one of them). Nice pleasant social with Mrs Ferk at the base plaza at the end of the day.  A lot full with cars, B lot maybe 2/3 full and C similar, cars in D and E.  Tomorrow should be hopefully nicer – smaller crowd, more sun, more heat, more fun!

and nice to meet you today with Mrs Ferk. Yesterday was a little cooler but a little better skiing except of course for the hike up and ski down the Queen. Cheers….