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03/29/08 Another good half day at Stevens (afternoon shift). Those there earlier had a quality pow day I am sure, but I had daughters softball game. Seventh was good, Cloud Nine and Little Tree soft packed powder with no bumps formed. Snow stuck on better on the Bobby/Nancy side this time too. Backside the bottom 3/4 got pretty sun affected; untracked was sticky, churned up stuff clinkery, and even groomers were not that good. But there was still good powder in the deeper trees. When backside closed ran 6 laps in a row on Tye Mill and still could find segments of fresh tracks in the slope and trees below the chairline cliff. Lines short, lots didn't fill, occ. snow showers but sun breaks too. Easy drive up. Warmer than you'd think given it was snowing in town.
03/16/08 Pretty quality day. Did the swing shift (not arriving til 1ish but staying for 'night' skiing til past 6 w light still perfectly good). Could still find fresh lines in places like hiking to ropeline on Double Diamond, or hitting steep trees near Wildkatz. Bobby/Nancy side of Seventh had ice layer under that snow didn't stick to well, but Cloud 9 side had nice recirculating soft snow, genuine 'packed powder'. Backside not that gloppy, yet. Good groomers on Hogsback chair. Those boys at Stevens know how to groom, could give both the Boyne resorts some lessons on that.
-wolfs
03/03/08 smooth warm base with a nice new 4 inches bonded to base layer. Nothing like a modern midfat ski in these conditions to rip it up! Get up tommorrow if you can. PizzaMan
2/23/2008 It was blue sky day in the morning with some clouds drifting in later in the day. Excellent views with very clear air. The front side snow stayed mostly firm with the backside starting to soften up around noon. There were still hard spots in the shady areas or even skiing into the shadow of a tree. It kept me on my toes. Double Diamond was very firm and a bit unnerving. I wish my edges were sharper! It was sweet where smooth and some scraped off snow had piled up. Seventh Heaven had similar hard snow and I decided against the chair side chutes after the Double Diamond run. The Meadow run straight down from the ramp was very nice and the 'cliff' at the end was just a couple of steep turns. Crowds were very light in the morning and I thought maybe ski schools had ended. But I found out later there was a serious (fatality?) accident that had the road blocked for 2 hours. Sorry to hear that but more ammunition to the philosophy of getting there early. We arrived about 8:10. Get ahead of the traffic so there is no reason for people to think about passing; and get an excellent parking spot.
BigB
01/04/08 Not as nice as I had hoped for. Looked like a huge crowd had torn it up this weekend. Not that it was bad but it was very firm packed powder with lots of bumped up runs requiring more work. Some good stuff off 7th if you knew where to look. No crowds at least.
PizzaMan
02/02/08 What a day. We had the snow from a week of dumpage but we the snow let up and we skied in cold, overcast and slightly cloudy weather but no snow as we skied. This week has left them with a huge soft base. Just wonderful. Crowds weren't too bad but the backside was a mess when Jupiter went on the fritz before lunch. I was never stuck on the lift and they got it going again. But that put the crunch on Southern Cross.
David
01/28/08 Drive up not as bad as expected. Only took about 15 minutes more than a typical day. The powder is back! Some fine runs near any tree cover. Deep enough to cover most of the hardpack underneath. Found some Knee deep in places. DD was really nice
PizzaMan
01/07/08 Wrong date. Sorry
01/08/08 Nice packed powder. Low crowds with no lift lines. Had fun on the new ski's. K2 Recons. Rock solid ski in all conditions. Just takes a lotta energy to stay on top of them.
Pizzaman
12/31/07 Skied from 8:45 (thanks!) to about 4. Fantastic weather, transitioning from the last of the snow to bluebird. The sun did toast out the snow on the backside some but the front stayed nice and light, and it was pleasant to be able to see for a change. Crowds bigger than Friday and no attempt to maintain a pay lot. Best runs were Polaris Bowl, and lower Big Chief down to skiers right, finishing in the RV lot etc. Everything was great in the morning and really nothing got bad. The upper entrance to Big Chief Bowl was open but the entrance was certainly a bit stretchy. Really decent base now for further add-ons of powder. What a great December.
12/23/07 Couldn't make it to Crystal for various reasons, so went night skiing at Stevens Sun. night. Good snow, in fact it was dumping. The coverage is much better than on the 16th, still a good amount of pucker brush of peste though. No crowd, the only down side is that Stevens is not very well lit in spots so with it snowing so hard, visibility was off and on depending on where the lights were. Great soft bumps,only a few scrapy spots. QF
12/16/07 Not a bad day considering that the whole mt is not open. No backside, ddiamond,or 7th. the lines were large especially hogs. Skyline was up and down tye and chief not so bad. The snow was pretty good, Not to icy ,the rocks were mostly covered. I took the rock skis and left them in the car. The off trail stuff had lots of pucker brush but not to many rocks if you were careful. Lots of good softish bumps to be had all over the hill. Visibility just ok. QF
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