Mother nature definitely gave some and took some away today. The late opening of the Rocket was largely due to the amount of ice, wet, cold etc. dumped on the hill. The blessing was everyone was forced onto the lower mountain for the morning opening up glade tracks that haven’t been skied in years (ever). We pulled all the lower mountain ropes as quickly as we could, Comet Drop, Final Frontier, Shooting Star & all those little unnamed bits of trail were open to those that could handle the somewhat heavy ‘powder’ that was thick enough to provide its own base on areas that had been bare a few days ago. The Uranus glade (up Milky Way from the West lift), which we (REMSKI etal) did major a major clean up of last summer was drawing a lot of foot traffic in the am. It normally takes 2 feet of snow to get it open,
More opened when the Rocket finally got rolling (yes that was me in the ‘first chair’, We had to get fully staffed at the top shack, so I didn’t really get first tracks off the top,
Anyway, with the storm over tomorrow promises to be a great mix of groomed trails, wild woods and some great tailgating weather… closing day? I’m not sure, its up to mother nature & the number of skiers
