Approaching 20 Ski Days
My parents are threatening to take my skis away until I get a new job. I"m working on it but it just keeps snowing!!! Went up to Crystal again today with 21" of new the day before and a foot of new last night. On top of that it's a Thursday and nobody was on the hill. Except for the hard core like the folks from EVO. Check out their store in Fremont if you haven't already.
I ran into owner/operator Bryce Phillips, some of his employees like Ben and Peter, and pro photographer Ian Coble as I hopped on the first lift. I thought about making some runs with them, but as we got off the Rainier Express, I counted 7 people in the group, not including me. That's a few too many for me on a powder day.
I did catch up to Bryce and Peter a little later in the day and went for two good runs. One down Right to Left Angle and another down Upper and Lower Exterminator. The day was awesome. Knee deep to waist deep in places. Chair 6 was ridiculous, with multiple runs in waist deep snow.
I also was on a new pair of skis, called the Sir Francis Bacon by LINE. Wow. They have a great sidecut that is so much fun on the groomers. It's also super wide and floats pretty well in the powder. It was a pretty deep and heavy powder day, so the tips did dive a bit, but I should have mounted the bindings a couple mm back from mid sole. Just had to stay a little lighter on my feet than normal.
The hardest thing about days like today is obeying the rules. I've been so spoiled with deep powder that once it gets tracked up, you want to duck the rope. You see the untracked right there on the other side, you see some people who have poached it, but will you? On this particular day I didn't. Most days I don't, as losing my pass would be tragic. I am content with the bounty of fresh inbounds snow today. Looking forward to the 6 feet predicted to fall this weekend.