Snow guns operating on Middle Superstar

Snow guns operating on Middle Superstar

With all of the weather we had the last couple of days, our expectations were not set very high this morning when we headed out to the slopes. Overnight, temperatures dipped into the low teens with a fairly strong wind. Around the inn, things were frozen fairly tightly this morning. I needed to chop away more than a little ice to get the back hatch of the Subaru open before heading out to the hill.

When we arrived at the mountain, we were greeted with the site of snow guns operating all over the place. 4 lifts were operating this morning including the K1 gondola,aka "the box", the Snowdon Quad and Poma, and the Superstar Quad. The North Ridge Triple was scheduled to run, but when we skied down it's lift line there were maintenance crew working on the top of one of the lift towers. God love them..it looked like one cold job. So it goes.

We did a couple of loops off the box. Great Northern had snow guns going in strategic locations. Lower Rime saw snow making last night. The new snow was fairly deep.

Mary traversing Great Northern (Click to enlarge.)

Totally unexpected given the weather we had yesterday. East Fall and High Line were in great shape. Perfect for nice sweeping turns. Cascades was monster icey bumps. Many of the people on it were not pretty to be polite.

Before calling it a day we did several runs of the Superstar Quad. Upper Skyelark was in nice shape. Lower Bittersweet and Lower Skyelark were a little funky. Plenty of snow cover. Them mountain may have even blown snow snow on them overnight. But the base had a granular feel. Probably still a little damp.

Superstar was really interesting. The guns were going from the headwall all the way to the High Road cut toff for Skyelark. Totally sweet. I just took a line about 15 feet away from the guns. Beautiful fresh snow. Really nice. Of course, I was also like the abominable snow man when I joined up with Mary on Skye Lark (Lower Superstar was not open.)

All in all a morning on the hill.

Let it snow!