Edelweiss Chair and beyond... Alpental , The valley and the rest of snocrummy

[f=ma]

My last hill was notorious for grooming wet snow hours before it froze, resulting in barely skiable ice corduroy until it got hit with a groomer again or temps warmed. If they were really on their game they would make sure it had a nice drop between groomer passes. I assumed that was the industry standard, lol.

Looks like it only got down to high 20s for a little bit last night though, so I imagine its not too bad all considered.

The Mt Baker special

[Going Coastal]

Probably a lot of crossover between groomer ops and the guys that grind the highway down for a shave and pave in the summer. At this point in my life both seem like pretty good gigs.

[phatty]

My daughter has an instructor training at West tomorrow, so I'll be ripping groomer laps in the morning. Hit me up if you'll be there, too.

[kamtron]

In the time it took you to write this you could have read the post again

A couple days of rain, and there goes my reading comprehension!

[chaka]

Visibility was pretty terrible the top half of West today, but I was dying to get a couple hours in. Fun seeing the Santas tearing around (when you could see).

[Going Coastal]

They announced night ops start on Mon. Working overnight shifts until Feb so fingers crossed I can finally get more than 1 day a week in. Driving 90 home this morning was busy like a summer Fri afternoon. Hoping it was people traveling for the holiday and not a preview of what crowds will be like the next couple of weeks.

[phatty]

They announced night ops start on Mon. Working overnight shifts until Feb so fingers crossed I can finally get more than 1 day a week in. Driving 90 home this morning was busy like a summer Fri afternoon. Hoping it was people traveling for the holiday and not a preview of what crowds will be like the next couple of weeks.

Yesterday was packed and it was pouring rain and limited terrain...

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[carlh]

Today was not too crazy but vis was shit. Showed up at 830 expecting a shitshow but parked close to Julie’s chair, maybe the parking fee is working. Lines were 5 minutes or less on all chairs even with wild side closed. Snow was crunchy groomers early but it was coming down hard and there was 2” on the car when we left at 230 that was softening things up. First lift day for me and the kid so no complaints. Hopefully the precip this week stays solid and the open alpental for next weekend as planned.

[Going Coastal]

Yeah, i took the 16yo up this afternoon around the time you were leaving I guess. Can't count as an official day because we only did a one and done, but the snow wasn't horrible and the line was short despite the crowd. She definitely had a bit of culture shock with her first lower 48 ski experience though, lol. Fingers crossed Santa brings cold air with him.

[carlh]

Alpental opens tomorrow merry Christmas!

Went to west with my 8yo again today, snow was much softer than Sunday and a little more filled in. Was slushing when we left at lunch. Hopefully the storm tomorrow comes in as snow, looks like a lot of moisture.

[Going Coastal]

I expected things to be a shitshow going up, but how do you make a car do a 180 going downhill? You literally just put it in low gear and let gravity coast you down at 35mph until you hit the snow line.

Anyway, traffic was a hot mess (took 2hrs from NB around 4pm) but some fun storm skiing tonight. Santa delivered, now hopefully the grinch doesn't take it all away!

[Cisco Kid]

Going down is slidier than going up. Pic of the west end of the W bound bridge from a few years ago. At the same time I was stuck E bound 50 yds from the Snoq exit behind a DOT sander, that was spinning it's wheels. Stay right and slow commin down.

[greenmachine]

New lift ever open

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[carlh]

Made it to alpental at 1 after everyone else went home since it was raining at the bottom. Edelweiss opened right before I got to the top of Armstrong so headed up in the first wave. Heavy untracked through edelweiss bowl then had to break trail through the flats for more untracked under the lift at the bottom. They closed the chai for like 20-30m to antifreeze the rope and got 3 more laps before it closed for the day. Snow was supportive but fun. Hit a couple laps on Armstrong before heading home and it was still snowing but looking like rain.

[SeatownSlackey]

Glad your day worked out alright Carl. Parked lot two with only a dozen cars at seven thirty with a pass closure behind me and it was still nuking so stoke was high. Two and a half hours plus to load Armstrong to then spend another hour at ch two waiting. First run was a lower mtn beer run back to lot two to load up supplies in some of the stickiest, maximum grab elephant snot as by this time it was raining up close to the top of ch 1. Back to waiting with the crew at two, beer was depleted and called it. Only to get down and have a trusted lifty let us know it was finally loading. Hurried back up only to get cockblocked at the maze for what must have mean the antifreeze maintenance cycle Carl mentions.

Soaked through two pairs of gloves for two runs today. Alpy giveth and alpy taketh.

Edit to add: new lift was spinning but never loaded. Tomorrow supposedly.

Also patrol seemed super understaffed for admittedly challenging control conditions.

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[counterfeitfake]

Has anyone successfully parked at the summit?

I bought an uphill pass and made an Ikon reservation, both of which are supposed to give me a parking code. I haven't seen a code. Haven't gotten a response from Summit either.

[SorryBro]

Heard lots of complaints about parking codes not going out for Ikon holders while I was waiting in their 25 minute line after Daughters season pass stopped working half way through the day.

Wet as hell. Today at Central. Groomed is fine, anything tracked is concrete


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[californiagrown]

I never received a parking code as a pass holder, so I emailed earlier this month and they responded with a code and link for my parking pass within 15 mins. I won't be using it for another 6 weeks atleast b/c of shoulder surgery, but it was theoretically quick and easy.

Sounds like we have some quality basebuilder falling lately

[Mofro261]

Very sloppy all the way up to top of 2 by mid morning after a couple decent laps.early.

Caught the top right as Nash opened and everyone was lining up for the new Internationale chair. The vis was tough and the snow noisy with a bit of frozen rain torching everything by afternoon.

Wanted to ride the new lift but it started slipping backwards when we were 3 chairs from loading, so in all it ran about 15 minutes before needing to be evac'd.

[Bandit Man]

Very sloppy all the way up to top of 2 by mid morning after a couple decent laps.early.

Caught the top right as Nash opened and everyone was lining up for the new Internationale chair. The vis was tough and the snow noisy with a bit of frozen rain torching everything by afternoon.

Wanted to ride the new lift but it started slipping backwards when we were 3 chairs from loading, so in all it ran about 15 minutes before needing to be evac'd.

Wow. With the recent Vail chair accident, that must have spooked a bunch of folks.

[Stairmaster]

Wanted to ride the new lift but it started slipping backwards when we were 3 chairs from loading, so in all it ran about 15 minutes before needing to be evac'd.

Damn that is frigged. I saw they said all chairs at Alpental were closed because of freezing rain. Telemetry said otherwise...wonder if they shut down because of the evac.


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[counterfeitfake]

Yeah that's scary, imagine being someone who stood in line to get on the first load of that thing. I'm sure it's just a SNAFU in new equipment.

Less scary but more persistent is the parking situation, I got a response with 2 different codes for my uphill pass and my Ikon pass. You can't register two permits to one account, so they want me to register the second one using an alternate email address... this is what happens when you bid out your web infrastructure to the lowest bidder.

[Going Coastal]

So both new lifts shit the bed in the first hour of operation. Lol

[Cisco Kid]

The grandkids got 4 laps in on Sessel then had 1st chair on International. Got off before it broke. Timing is everything.

[AK47bp]

Ski on laps all day.




Upper mountain was creamy and deep fun. Mid and below no bueno.


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