Expected to see a CD post by now? Oh well here is my Hamster version....
Ski Report - Big Sun, Big Warm, not Big Crowd, Big Bad Grooming...took a couple of early runs off of REX to find the only nicely groomed line in the early morning icy time (front side cat track to Windy Pass across the Doors to narrow groomed slots on LS to a very prime Gandy's), didn't much mater by 10 am when the sun exposures started to go off. #1 did FQex early and was mostly happy.... I poked around GV and runs off REX - lower Valley main runs not groomed and pretty bouncy early - don't know if it ever improved. I bumped into the Ferkinator which got me to ski mid-morning MIFB which was just starting to get happy and then Lower Ferks (Bullrun) which was very nice mid-morning and later with #1. Things continued to get softer all day - lots of reports of fair Bucket Line skiing into great Lower E late morning and apparently a very nice time skiing EH to the D lot shuttle stop. Rocks popping, not a lot of quality grooming on the upper mountain, didn't notice any sticky snow and I did have fun on Sunnyside early afternoon.... I think anywhere for big snow sliders in the sun this afternoon would have been awesome.
Other - Had a late morning lunch at CB lodge with #1...I got lucky and the soup was Chicken Noodle (and it was very good), also oinked a big paper thin slice of supreme pizza - edible but crunchy. No lift lines today again - season is way over. A lot had a big space reserved for buses? Didn't notice any when we left mid afternoon. Big special folks parking, lots of construction prep around the base, Pay lot smallish and fullish, free part of A lot pretty full finally, Carpool lot big and empty, a few rows in B and C might have been a quarter fullish and that was about it. Drive up and down end of season pleasant, only a few Elk sighted as we drove into Greenwater this morning....Big fun in the Sun! First day I got down to full Hawaii shirt and gear (baseball gloves, baseball hat and Oakley's! Happy!). Great fun day in the sun.
