Crystal - 2/10

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6 days 2 hours ago #238097 by CD
Crystal - 2/10 was created by CD
Went through Enumclaw at 7:15 and only saw three cars after that.  4 cars in A-lot when I arrived, so a very nice drive up in the sun.  Crystal is doing an awesome job grooming what they can, but the front side is a bare mess and the last face of Lucky Shot is brown with dirt and rocks.  Not sure how my rock skis avoided further damage.  The bottom runs under REX to the chair are closed, so it's Gandy's or the other run that goes over towards the bottom of Iceberg.  The coverage in GV was surprisingly good and a different world from the front side.  GV, Pro Course,  West Face, and Snorting Elk all groomed.  Off piste, the valley bowl and Snorting Elk bowl skied sorta good, good enough for several repeats.  Ann's Run was good, but old chairline was not.  Also Grubstake was icy bumps.  Most of the conditions in the valley were the result of the 4 inch refresh over the week-end.  It's not gong to hold up through this next dry period until we get snow again.  Saw people coming down Powder Bowl, so up I went.  You have to take your skis off and walk down a couple hundred feet before you can ski in.  Once in, it wasn't worth a repeat.  Queens Run was well covered, but part of Down Hill had patrollers yelling at people to slow down because there was blue ice for a couple hundred feet just before the last roll-over to the chair.  You can't take the road to the right as it's dirt.  Last thing of note.  Neither the Summit House or Campbell Basin lodge were open for food.  When I left, A lot had three rows of cars, B and C were a third full.  No one on the drive home. 

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