Crystal This Weekend????

[Dug]

Sorry I missed you Will but I would have slowed you down anyway. The old rental bandits looked like they had a waist in the 60's and I just about ate it every time. I hit some runs off H. Campbell and I either prereleased (I was set on the highest binding DIN and it still happened) or the tips dived and I face planted down the mountain. The crud kicked my ass. Eventually I got fed up so I just tore up the groomers for the rest of the day and hit the race course at Gold Hills to finish things off. I managed to lose my ski on that run too. Ridiculous too since it wasn't even deep there. Ended up borrowing the lifties shovel and shovelling for an hour. Goddamn, they have burly shovels...

Anyway, I haven't worked out in ages so all that falling, cutting steps back up the slope to fetch gear and shovelling has got my legs pretty tired. Fucking pathetic, I would have sneered at myself if it had been a couple months earlier.

Anyway, pretty damn tracked out inbounds but some good pow shots nonetheless. I still had fun.

[rbtree]

Silentstorm, deepest snow I found was in North country. Don't know what the run's called, but you go through the very last gate along Northway Ridge, follow the ridge to your right out a ways then drop down. There was some wind-loaded pow in there that I think would qualify as thigh deep. At least on my short legs...

Jumper - next weekend's looking real good right now if things go as predicted throughout the week. A pow day at Xtal would be a great welcome-home, no?

Brand X to the left, local cult subnames when you get way out are "Where the Chutes Have No Name", and "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine" Keep going past the areas boundary and you have.....oh,,,never mind.

Closer to the ridge, bearing left is Pucker Gulch, which usually has deeper snow..unless it slides or has slid, thus the name. It is 40 rolling to 50 degrees..or so. To you right off the Ridge is "Snothorn", which leads back to the choke at the bottom of Northway Bowl...

From the last gate, heading north or left is Morning Glory Bowl, which feeds into the whole Brand X face. 3000 feet of some of the best inbounds goods anywhere!!!