Itching to try out my new skis (thanks again Ellisbrigham and Atomic) I was watching the weather out the window this morning and a break seemed to be happening about 09:30 so up I went. I got there just as the cas was being shut down. The wind did not seem that bad but then it grabbed you, smacked you round the head and kicked you in the err ums... and off it went like nothing had happened.
Nice ski no wind but wait......
.....Oh &@?% Thats why the lifts were off
It was a lovely morning with passing snow showers, you just had to hang on to everything as the gusts went through, luckily there was quite a time between them.
The mountain has been scoured badly, even more so than Wednesday but certain areas have picked up the blowing snow. The lower runs have done very well as has jeans Bowl, lower ridge and the Cas. The snow quality is excellent. The machines have been all over jeans bowl and side slope making a large play ground for most abilities. They have connected side slope with the lower ridge by crossing under the tow line half way down. This gave a great fast ski back to the ridge poma. Lower abilities were using jeans bowl back to the car park tow.
The lady and the cas were as good as Wednesday but much quieter. It was brutal coming off the train and trying to get in to the WL or down the traverse. Once in the skiing was superb but no lift access to return to the top. There was no way they could have run those lifts today with the wile gusts coming through.
Interesting to see a 360 cat digger on the way up the home road, not sure what this is going to do unless it is for building some jumps at the top.
In all a good day to keep to the lower runs, there is plenty to keep all abilities happy. Not sure what will happen tomorrow when the weekend hoards arrive. The reason today was so good was the lack of people so you could lap the lifts as often as you like. Not many locals about, still many tourists from down south.
Some pictures and further report here
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Graeme
Edited 1 times. Last edit at 19.36hrs Fri 27 Feb 15 by WindyMiller.
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