My hubbie and I had one the best days today on the mountain. Given the conditions we experienced on Monday, we were not expecting this! Monday= "a little dust on the crust". The previous week had been true spring skiing, complete with slush and boarding without jackets. Then Monday came along with some fresh snow. However, with the dramatic temperature change, all the slush froze into ice clumps, and then the powder disguised the ice clumps. Looking down from the lifts was very deceiving; it looked like a good day of skiing ahead, and yet we were fooled. Darn you, deceiving snow.
Tuesday, however, we experienced better conditions. The mountain had received more snow, and the ice clumps were either groomed out or buried, or something...they weren't there. Yesterday was a much more enjoyable day. Nathan did a sweet trick involving one tree and one little stump of a tree. It looked kind of like a mad 360, however, he deceived me as well. He did not see the little stump of a tree, hit it, and went flying in the air, landing on his bum.
And then today came. We woke up with maybe 1-2 inches of fresh powder here in Fraser. We thought it would be a decent day again with a few fresh inches. We were deceived again. When we got to Mary Jane, it only took us one run down from Panoramic to realize that the mountain had received much more than just 1-2 inches. Throughout the day we were hitting up trails in the trees where we were in knee deep pow pow!! It was AMAZING. We repeatedly withstood 30-40 mph winds, ice, and white-out conditions at the top of Panoramic to get the precious pow pow waiting for us in the trees. To say it was sweet is an understatement. We then wanted to try some runs off of the Challenger lift, which we found closed. (Challenger lift is NEVER closed! What the heck??) So we found a different way to get to those runs, and since most people hadn't ventured that way seeing that the lift was closed, we experienced the freshest of the fresh pow pow. Fresh tracks every which way we went.
Can't wait to see what the conditions are like tomorrow, since it snowed all afternoon and is still snowing some now... Bring it on, pow pow!
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