November 27, 2005, MRNP

What a difference a couple of weeks make, last week sunning and sipping cool ones on the beaches of Puerto Vallerta, this week skiing some of the best snow so far. Ron, Jerry and I met at the Tall Timbers in Eatonville for our usual breakfast stop before heading to Paradise.  We arrived at Longmire at 8:45 a.m. the gate already open!  The road to Paradise was icy with compact snow and ice all the way to the upper Paradise parking lot.  Seemed rather strange, there really weren't many cars or skiers gathering in the lot.  Our Paradise "spy" Robie, reported to us from his Saturday Paradise ski as to where the best "goods" might be found.  We ran into Scotsman, Jibber, and Snoslut in the lot.  With our secret knowledge we headed east of Edith Basin.  Once we had decided upon one of several slopes, we did a couple of different stability tests with a pit test and ski cut, determined that the 6 to 8 inches of light fluff was stable.  The temps remained in the low 20's throughout the enitre day keeping the snow champange like  ;D.  Our group skied several different slopes with first tracks on all, enjoying fantastic light snow all day. We ended our day on "Pillow Talk", with pillows and pillows of light snow right to the lower Paradise road.  Skinning up the lower Paradise Road to the upper parking lot, Scotsman and Jibber had to take one last run down, "last chance", where Scotsman yelled from the bottom, "this is the best snow of the whole day"  :D.  Of course we were all saying that as we made our way around to some of our favorite runs  ;D.  Ron and Jerry kept their camers clicking and rolling and should have some photos to post later.