And to much more verbiage about today - So sad - a totally hamster treadmill groomer day...all that nice new snow and weather yesterday pretty much screwed up anything off piste (at least the north facing slopes - worse than chicken heads, I actually do not really know this from personal experience, sometimes my brain does work). Hamster run of the day on REX - Pro course (best packed pow grooming I experienced today) to MIFB (nasty icy screamer grooming early, got way better as the sun baked it). Big vert, big high speed, only a few LS runs do to getting to it and the crowd that was skiing it. A little fog down at the base early and also for my last run back to the base (fog blowing up valley), but mostly a big blue bird see forever kinda day, got almost pleasant warm at times, but cool at the top with the west winds. Definitely a total groomer day base on watching a few crash test dummy's in PB and the front side early - REX chair line looked soft enough during the 1pm hour when I noticed a few folks making some nice turns in the warm sun - I wimped and didn't test it. Had fun bumping into Quick Foot and Steve? at CB lodge late morning and then skiing a lot of fun way to fast runs with them (can't wait for the 3 point report today!).
Had fun - duh, worst snow conditions of the season, another typically sunny day at Crystal on a weekday in January looking at all the clouds in the low lands and up towards the far north. Did hear some nice reports from some of the "real" X-tal skiers that Upper Bull and E were very nicely skiable in the warm sun - just don't go into any shady areas.
Other - Soup at CB lodge was that dang CN again (tasted mighty fine), plus I went overboard and had the Barby Chicken pizza - looked good and tasted pretty okay...better than a lot of the recent options. Crowd pretty light today, though FQex apparently had problems early so all that crowd was in the REX area - almost had to ride the lift with folks today. Pay lot was probably to big and couldn't tell how many folks parked in it had permits when I left, 5 buses or so, cars in B and C to the shuttle stops - so it was a fair sized crowd for a weekday.
