March 12, 2000Same Old, Same OldThe nice snow on top was a bit more used and the not so nice stuff farther down seemed a bit cruddier, but the pattern of the last while continued pretty much unchanged. Only White Pass seemed to be high enough to reliably nice snow, but I later realized that while showing some folks around, I had pretty much stuck to the South facing slopes and effectively avoided the North Facing ones. Perhaps I am just not mentally tuned to spring skiing yet or perhaps I was subconsciously leading them astray. They were ski journalists so perhaps my leading them to a succession of crusty and cruddy pitches was an unintended effort at crowd control. I think it may have worked, for after negotiating some truly ugly stuff off the side of lower Red Tree, one commented that these weren't death cookies, but death muffins. :-) Some of the high traffic areas like North Ridge and Heartland were very slick, but down low it was pretty warm and soft. At 6:15 it is 2 C at the house under a mainly cloudy sky that doesn't look all that promising despite the earlier flurry teases. |
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