17/18 Hyak Report

Giggly kids of the non ski school who really want ski bikes

Rampart would be happy if an inanimate object could have emotions.

I hear it moves on the weekends.

let's hope it doesn't tumble again

Cluster of a morning rush coupled with a major delay didn't have East Peak loading until 9:50. Didn't matter because it thinned-out by the time Rampart opened @ 10:30. Hidden Valley didn't crack til 1:30, by which time the snow had turned to garbage thanks to some late morning warming. New terrain park thingy in place on Creek Run past Serpentine, angering many a skiing family. Thoroughly mediocre for the insane amount of shoveling the employees were doing and currently raining lightly.

Rain turned to mist by 10, groomers were soft and fast, off them was only passable if it had been skied hard yesterday. Ghost town, foggy on the upper mtn everywhere but Serpentine. Caved and did the online park pass class during lunch so I could sample the all-snow park. They've built an excellent jump line and QP along Creek Run as well as a fun set of rollers and banked turns on Cut-Off. Only bummer is now there are tons of families clogging up Serpentine. I guess a fix is on the way for that, as well as for Nordic folks skiing down to the base and tourers skinning up. Almost hit a splitboarder who was coming up Serpentine ??? Soup was egg drop ramen, boiled heavily with sriracha

Until they get whatever that "fix" is in place I'm thinking that if I hit the Nordic trails I'll ride up Silver Fir and head down via White Rabbit and then get onto the cat track just below where that hits Outback...