sibhusky

I missed over a week due to the flu.

Day 50. More sunshine. This is not a good thing.

Day 49. More spring skiing with friends.

Day 48. Forgot to take pics until the last run since I was skiing with friends.

At least there's a lower number of skiers per square foot here.

Day 47. Everything hard as granite all day, including a damned normally-groomed area that I like to hit, but you can't exit once you get there and it wasn't. Rock hard mush in lumps, chunks, and ridges. Glad I survived that mess. Did find skiable trails here and there.

Day 46. It's spring here. I skied until the slop and crowds were getting excessive.

I lost the rest of my comments due to a time out. Probably just as well. Not going to subscribe.

He was here Monday. He should have come a week sooner. I can't believe he went to the Firebrand.$$ Monday was a mixed bag, definitely not the best. His chair buddy sent him to Flower Point, which was a good choice early in the day. He then ignored them and went to East Rim. That would definitely have warmed him up.

Day 45. No Name was worth repeating, but is tough to lap. There are a ton of ski clubs here that I wish would leave. They seem to predominately consist of the clueless.

Day 44. The morning web cam showed it was going to be a glorious day and it was. But this is too much "Spring", too early. l

Day 43. The worst fog I've been in, in 25 years, on the Ant Hill today. I couldn't figure out where "down" was to look for the next fog ball. Tried following people, but they rapidly disappeared and I had to wait for another. Fortunately, Flower Point wasn't as bad and there was skiing bliss to be found on its silky snow. If only that lift wasn't so slow!! Mixed in a few chair 5's to break it up, but it's no speed demon, either. Could have skied that stuff all day but the slow lift and dumping graupel finally sapped away any warmth.

Day 42. A real mixed bag. First run was a confidence-destroying slog through windpack, looking for blown-off areas or chopped up stuff. Headed to back and found Saturday-level crowds. Then went over to Chair 2 for mashed potatoes and cottage cheese.

Day 41. Missed a whole week of powder due to the flu. Had a shaky first day back and it's a different season. Went from polar conditions to early spring.

Day 40. Cold and clear. Strangely empty.

Day 39. -12°F if the sign at the top was to be believed. Snow was slow, so maybe. Managed to crank out 30,350 vertical feet by 2:30, so called it good. Haven't done that since 2014.

Day 38. Single digits and high winds again, so upper lifts weren't open until I left. Took a dozen runs and had given up on Chair 1 ever opening, left at noon.

Day 37. skied with friends. 0° and high winds. The husband had a bad bike accident in September. Broke his shoulder and his femur in 2 places. This was his 2nd day on skis this season. But he's looking great. 72 years old.

Day 36. My best day since I hit 70. Perfect density snow. Went in some places I haven't been in a decade.

Day 35. Upper lifts all closed due to frigid weather, negative 16 plus wind. Skied the open lift until I got bored.

Day 34. Nice to have fresh snow. -5°F, my kind of weather.

Said local was in line before any chairs opened. I don't know when the people ahead of me arrived.

Day 33. Took a few days off. My daughter dropped off the dogs and I'd built up a lot of exhaustion with my ski schedule then all her circus made me take 3 days off. We got some powder and it was really crowded today so I didn't last long.

Day 32. Short day. Fit in a few runs before noon. My daughter and son-in-law and their dogs are arriving later so they can leave the dogs with us while they are in Japan. l

Truth be told, I personally haven't had one. Now if you mean when was our last snowfall, looks like January 12. We've had days with fresh snow, but not enough to call them powder days. I've only skied my "powder skis" a few times, mostly because they had the right wax on and the terrain wanted a more flexible ski. They have yet to see what they were designed for.