Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Terrain

Today was tremendous.  We had 9" new and 16" from the storm.  More is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.  It was a big day for the ski patrol.  They were prepping trails for opening and doing a lot of avalanche work.  There was plenty of ski cutting, packing, and explosives work.  We saw several very small slides, a decent sized slide in South Chute on Slalom Slope, and a HUGE AVALANCHE on Pali stretching from Main Street to the 2nd Alley.

The snowcat drivers have done a bunch of packing all over the mountain.  Tonight should be another big night for them.  Our next trails to open will be Wrangler, Lenawee Parks, Humbug, Powerline, and Cornice Run/West Wall.  We may see some of those trails open Wednesday.  As you have seen in the past, we may open a trail for a couple hours to let the snow get packed.  We then may close it for the evening and let it set up and stiffen up over night.  Just a tip, take it for what it is worth, but I would ski here Wednesday and pay attention to where the ski patrol is working.