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Crystal - 05/01 Happy May Day and First Saturday
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01 May 2021 14:31 #235077
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Crystal - 05/01 Happy May Day and First Saturday was created by ddk
Ski Report Short version - Great day, better than expected, conditions very nice early.
Ski Report the Wordy version - First time we've been up on a Saturday this season and it was very nice. Light crowd - we got first CHex chair at 8am and the 6 people behind us the next 3 chairs. Very grey and foggy on the bottom half of the mountain, but up top very nice sun with great views. Snow firm up top early in shady areas, but the sun impacted groomers in the Valley were prime from the start as was LS. #1 did her early routine on FQex and said the groomers were all very nice, especially with nobody else on the slopes. Wore almost full winter mode clothes to start and other than dropping to mid temp gloves I kept everything else on (so no Hawaii shirt weather for me, but did see folks in shorts and very light clothes and weird outfits). MIFB was not groomed so didnt try it till a mid morning after it "really" got soft and the bumps were building nicely. Valley center got soft late morning and the bumps on either side of the groomer from the top of GVex made me happy (and eventually hurt my quads - what a week not skiing does to muscles). Skied late into the morning (?) - noon! and the snow was getting very soft and sticky in places by then, plus the clouds were starting to role in.
Other - No lunch break today, no time and skiing from 8am to noon was just about right. Pay lot was very sadly empty (1/5 full?), bottom 1/3 of the A lot was open parking, B lot was full to the shuttle, C lot had random parking that might have been 2/3's ish. So a few folks showed up but not many, never a lift line. Drive up early was very casual, drive down was mostly pleasant, only so a few elk on the drive up. Great day!
PS - Heard from a very reliable source that EH was prime mid morning! Never did PB or Ch6 do to iffy vis when it finally opened and I had a chance to do it. The EXP's worked great today but the Coombas might have been a better overall choice - maybe tomorrow.
Ski Report the Wordy version - First time we've been up on a Saturday this season and it was very nice. Light crowd - we got first CHex chair at 8am and the 6 people behind us the next 3 chairs. Very grey and foggy on the bottom half of the mountain, but up top very nice sun with great views. Snow firm up top early in shady areas, but the sun impacted groomers in the Valley were prime from the start as was LS. #1 did her early routine on FQex and said the groomers were all very nice, especially with nobody else on the slopes. Wore almost full winter mode clothes to start and other than dropping to mid temp gloves I kept everything else on (so no Hawaii shirt weather for me, but did see folks in shorts and very light clothes and weird outfits). MIFB was not groomed so didnt try it till a mid morning after it "really" got soft and the bumps were building nicely. Valley center got soft late morning and the bumps on either side of the groomer from the top of GVex made me happy (and eventually hurt my quads - what a week not skiing does to muscles). Skied late into the morning (?) - noon! and the snow was getting very soft and sticky in places by then, plus the clouds were starting to role in.
Other - No lunch break today, no time and skiing from 8am to noon was just about right. Pay lot was very sadly empty (1/5 full?), bottom 1/3 of the A lot was open parking, B lot was full to the shuttle, C lot had random parking that might have been 2/3's ish. So a few folks showed up but not many, never a lift line. Drive up early was very casual, drive down was mostly pleasant, only so a few elk on the drive up. Great day!
PS - Heard from a very reliable source that EH was prime mid morning! Never did PB or Ch6 do to iffy vis when it finally opened and I had a chance to do it. The EXP's worked great today but the Coombas might have been a better overall choice - maybe tomorrow.
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