Day 41 – Supriseabowl

After 3 days of skiing, two of which were long days, I decided to do one more before the promised meltdown and dry period. I didn’t expect much. I had planned to do one run and call it a day.

We started on a 1000′ southerly aspect, and the conditions were much better than we expected.

Although we made a nice 1000′ uptrack, I decided to try a more northerly aspect. It was even better. Then my brain started to work. “If that was good, then that other thing must be good.”

We skied 5 different bowls. There were several surprises that day:

• Although there hadn’t been that much snow reported at the mid elevations, we found 10-15″ of new snow.
• The hero crust had disappeared.
• Most of the bowls were untracked.
• There were very few people skiing.
• The snow was very good.