Short Report - Great morning! Nice snow, some hard lumpys and sun impacted from yesterdays sun. But as my brain and legs started working - ouch fun! Groomers (LS and MIFB) great early and great all morning. Off piste improved as my brain improved - but in Hamster mode I only did GV Bowl and Grubstake, rest of the time was picking my way from one bump area to the next on LS and MIFB. Morning - Great!
Long Report - Arrived ultra early to get prime singles line spot, wined at the early workers how early I was and that I should get first chair before all the 6 and 5 banger groups - Thanks Jessica! Got first Chex chair+ finally for the first time this season - nice and mellow and quiet in my solo brain.... and it was only 8:30! REX running and loading, got to be first public person on top at 8:40! Ouch! fun!....And Hamster Heaven was at full speed happy. Ultra light early crowd today and most of the morning, no real lift lines on REX, GVex pleasant early, vis was good enough to glance towards FQex - looked like hell over there. Only negative during the morning hamster frenzy was during the 10 o'clock hour lots of freezing precipe on my goggles? Breathing to hard - not! My coat was also covered in frozen precipe. It started snowing lightly around 9ish, snowing hard when I bailed out way to early - but with the biggest bump vert of this weird season I allowed myself to leave.
Other - As noted on REX the lines were mellow (though its a hassle running solo trying to get into the main loading path). No clue on food (except for the guy from CB lodge that told me - NO CHICKEN NOODLE soup today again). Pay lot was maybe 2/3 full as was B lot, C was pushing full as was D and E....so the crowd was pleasantly sized. Lots of cars heading up when I left. Drive up very pleasant early (except for folks with miss calibrated speed-o-meters...Ha Ha) Drive down was early enough to be at mostly speed. Didn't notice any Elk.
