Not what I thought
Got up at 5:30 am to get the untracked goods up at Crystal Mountain. Since Seattle experienced some of the nastiest weather in it's history, the skiers and snowboarders thought the riding would be 'all time' on Saturday. The upper mountain had been closed all week due to wind so there was supposed to be 25" of fresh waiting for us.
Well, either the wind or maybe some rain had taken much of the snow and made it 'not-so-epic'. Granted it was still good, but more like 5-6 inches of fresh on top of a crusty layer. The power was out or something because the lifts were running on diesel. I had fun all day long, but it wasn't what the website had advertised.
I also got up so damn early and the ride there took 3 hours. Going direct is more like an 1 and 45 minutes. But we got lost picking somebody up, then had breakfast and coffee at Starbucks. The people I skied with complained much of the day about the conditions, being cold, their feet, being hungry, took a long lunch, etc. that it bummed me out a little. Also had to leave early, but whatever.
Attitude is everything.
Everybody was up there. Saw Scotty, Glen, Keith, Ingrid, Kip, Katie, Bryce, dude from the Seahawks game, and should have broken off to make some runs with them. It was a social day at the hill. Would have been fun to hang out with everybody at the Elk afterwards. It was also demo days and all the sales reps and clinic folk were at the hill.
Looking forward to going skiing again on Tuesday to get my groove on. Hopefully the chairlifts will be running at full speed and I can make some TB's and get a little quad burn going. I need to get a good hard day of skiing in. Anyway, I might start to ramble so I'm going to stop. Look for a better ski blog entry on Tuesday night.