sibhusky

Day 19. Managed to miss being on Chair 1 when it stopped at 10 AM. (I kept thinking, "Where is everyone? It's a Powder Friday!") The back side was like a private club. Skied straight on the lift the entire time. It took them > 3 hours to evacuate it. Meanwhile I was oblivious to it until 11:30.

Day 18. Nirvana.

$600. Uh...No. Also, today not bad enough to leave. Only to influence which trails I took.

Day 17. Wind and visibility were issues, but good day. PXL_20260106_194049678~2.mp4

Day 16. Most of the crowds have left. Still a ton of rental gear and paper tickets, tho.

Day 15. Freshies

Day 14. Braved the crowds because the windchill was -15°F and I figured they would stay in the lodge a lot. Lined up for a chair at 8:40 and skied until noon. I love cold days here.

Day 13. Powder Day! Just dumping!!/

Day 12. Occasionally "one chair" visibility.

These are paper ticket people. Not locals.

I decided today it's not the numbers, it's actually the people themselves. Extended families blocking the entire width of trails. People flying straight down at race speed through slow zones with multiple large neon orange signs saying it's a slow zone, people coming to a dead stop right in the center of a trail with plenty of moving people all around them, cars parking so close to my door I have to go in on the passenger side and crawl over the center console, large groups in the seasonal locker area using up all the benches so that those of us who paid out big bucks (more than my pass), can't use the benches, people popping out of treed areas onto trails without looking at who is coming, people zigzagging the entire width of a wide trail in a totally unpredictable rhythm, it just goes on and on.

Day 11. "Hell Week is here!" according to a passholder talking to a lifte, and I agree, but occasionally you find a trail with a dearth of idiots.

Day 10. School is out and the Christmas visitors have started to arrive. Got some runs with friends today who are fussier than I about conditions

Day 9.

Day 8. It was my birthday and the first powder day, and they all came.