May 14, 2002, Crystal Mountain Area

What's so fun about getting your aerobic work out on a stair Climber or bike? Heard forcast of 1-3' new and that kind of agravated the afliction so last night headed up to Crystal for a little aerobic workout. Got there at 630pm (bad traffic up 410) and quickly changed from steel toes to Scarpas. Snow coverage is all the way to Lodge but won't be for long. I could see new snow on the trees higher up. Snow raged from shallow slush -corn -refreezing with elevation gain. Put in a solid hr and made it up 1000' or so just shy of Campell basin. Could have went further but snow was getting trappy as it refroze. Would have been great conditions for Jarvis Jelly but manufactor has been unreliable with first shipments and unfortunately (maybe even lucky) I was not a "Beta" tester. First turns were erratic with no crowd watching but finally settled down and ripped out a bunch on the way down to reward myself for the workout. Biggest Danger was all the Deer and Elk grazing and lurking on the drive home.

Robie