sibhusky

Nice article here: https://snowbrains.com/camelback-mountain-skiing-in-may-2026/

Local kid. Glad he's not mine. Terrifying. https://www.powder.com/news/parkin-costain-cadence-volume-1-ski-edit

Day 75. Closing day. Made my days goal and my vert goal (exceed last year). It was a tough season for goals. PXL_20260405_183156148.mp4 PXL_20260405_185108626.mp4

Day 74. "Skied my age." Visibility was okay under the fog layer. Conditions weren't as good as I'd hoped. PXL_20260403_192959864.mp4

Cold cold cold. Plastic boots were a revelation. When I think of the absolute misery of leather boots, and, oh, the elastic straps you had to wrap around your ankles before ski brakes, and, oh, the bindings that used to grab a metal plate on your boots? Cannot believe how easy things are today.

My most used are 84's with 2 layers of metal. They got a lot of use this year. But remember I started skiing in leather boots and straight skis. So 84's are mid-fats to me.

That should be day 73, not 72. Skis are 98's. Want wider ones, but generally there's only 2-3 days per year that it's an issue.

Day 72. About 6" of dense, heavy snow meant every turn required thought and I wasn't going to drench my hands and gloves with taking pictures. Got a workout.

Day 72. Enjoying yesterday's leftovers. First tracks on Hell Fire in the AM.

Oh! Today is the 19 year anniversary of the day I slammed into a tree at high speed and shattered my wrists. Glad I didn't realize that until now

Day 71. Now tied with last year. And we got snow! Nice parting gift from Ullr transformed the place. PXL_20260330_193612147.mp4

Day 70. Trying to hang in there to meet my goals, but a day like today makes it tough. Most of the hill is iffy, tons of hardpack, chickenheads, piles of sugar, FLAT LIGHT, etc. Even though I love empty, flat light cancels that out quite a bit.

No I have to start getting ready for an Alaska trip in a few weeks. Time to convert ski muscles to hiking muscles.

Oh yeah, I also will easily finish in the top 100 of the vert list, and higher than last year. Mostly because the rest of the locals are so disgusted with the season.

The goal is 75. The heck with this ski your age stuff. My vert goal is iffy-er. I'm hoping just to surpass last year. Conditions this year, ugh.

Day 69. A clone of yesterday. PXL_20260327_171510165.mp4 PXL_20260327_172856088.mp4 PXL_20260327_173046829.mp4 PXL_20260327_175012660.mp4

Day 68. ... And back to Sun again. Terrific day. Best thing? Ski onto lift everywhere. PXL_20260326_193255674.mp4

Day 67. How quickly things change. PXL_20260324_155520838.mp4

Day 66. Ghost town until about 11 AM. PXL_20260323_153759467.mp4

Day 65. Empty for a weekend. Things are getting sketchier on the lower, south-facing slopes.

I used to, but it finally gave up the ghost a couple years back, so I switched to Ski Tracks. Which has shown me that the resort's vertical tracker gives you an extra 200 feet for riding chair 2. And an extra 100 for riding chair 1. But that makes up for them not scanning you on the tbar ever, and the occasional missed scan if a liftie goes to the portapottie. The switch to Ski Tracks (GPS) I think has meant a loss of about 3% versus using something that relies on an altimeter. So I look at last year and feel like I'm lagging. But the resort gives me a higher number. I really want to do 1.2 this year, but not enough to ski in pouring rain tomorrow.

Forgot to mention I got my "mil" for the season.

Day 64. Good snow conditions, but even better, the place was empty!

Day 63. Started with hero snow, but it got lumpy bumpy fairly early. My legs are jelly.

Day 62. Rime high, rime low. Rime everywhere you go. Called it at noon.