- Joined
- Jul 15, 2020
For some reason, Saturday night, I set my alarm for 5am instead of 6, to ski Gore. Sort of an odd thing to do. But when the alarm went, the first thing I did, was check the radar, and I saw this...
I didn't see how Gore was going to escape the dreaded Pink Line.
In addition NWS had removed all mention of mix from the Titus forecast. All snow. It took 44 seconds for me to consider the insanity of what I was contemplating. I knew I'd never make first chair, especially driving in the snow. Looking back on it, I went north because I couldn't bear to watch this amazing run of winter end.
As I drove north and west the falling snow and sleet changed to a wet mix and my windshield became difficult to keep clear. In Long Lake I hit a patch of freezing rain and I thought, bad call Harv, and yea I might be in trouble driving.
Road to Titus
But Ullr smiled for me. As I drove farther north, the precip switched back and I didn't see any H2O for the rest of the day.
Titus reported 9 inches overnight and it was dumping as I arrived. I assumed, arriving late on a holiday, parking would be tough, but I was surprised to see plenty of parking. More cars then a weekday, but way less than a normal weekend. I grabbed my stuff, flipped my windsheild wipers up and headed in to the Lower Lodge.
Nuketown.
I went to the office get my ticket and look for Bruce Monette 3. We said hello, but I was chomping at the bit. Dumping, trees are 100% in play, no one here and Lift 6 was spinning. Go!
Lift 6
I took a lot of pics of Lift 6
Ski on lifts, powder every run.
I skied alone for an hour. Then, I reached out to Bruce through FB messenger.
Harv: Hey you got a ski partner for me?
BM3: Where are you skiing?
Harv: Lift 6.
BM3: Jason, our assistant GM will meet you at the top.
I'd skied with Jason once before, and he's a gamer. He agreed to check out my extended version of Harvey's Road, my perfect run off Lift 6. It's all trees T2B.
Jason
Local knowledge took over; Jason convinced me to come with him to the Upper Mountain. I feel at Titus they have a thing about Upper. Like... it's not open all the time, so if it's open, we better get it!
It was certainly the most popular spot, the only time all day I really saw a 'large' gathering of skiers.
I love the angle of Big Al's and the lower section of Outer Outer was sublime.
Big Al's
Eventually Jason had to get back to his real job. I kid you not, I went back to lift 6 and lapped my expanded version of Harvey's Road at least 10 times until lifts closed at 4:15.
I certainly had other options for my early morning audible. But I am very comfortable at Titus, and the snow was off the hook.
Considering the forecast... I'd call it All Time.
I didn't see how Gore was going to escape the dreaded Pink Line.
In addition NWS had removed all mention of mix from the Titus forecast. All snow. It took 44 seconds for me to consider the insanity of what I was contemplating. I knew I'd never make first chair, especially driving in the snow. Looking back on it, I went north because I couldn't bear to watch this amazing run of winter end.
As I drove north and west the falling snow and sleet changed to a wet mix and my windshield became difficult to keep clear. In Long Lake I hit a patch of freezing rain and I thought, bad call Harv, and yea I might be in trouble driving.
Road to Titus
But Ullr smiled for me. As I drove farther north, the precip switched back and I didn't see any H2O for the rest of the day.
Titus reported 9 inches overnight and it was dumping as I arrived. I assumed, arriving late on a holiday, parking would be tough, but I was surprised to see plenty of parking. More cars then a weekday, but way less than a normal weekend. I grabbed my stuff, flipped my windsheild wipers up and headed in to the Lower Lodge.
Nuketown.
I went to the office get my ticket and look for Bruce Monette 3. We said hello, but I was chomping at the bit. Dumping, trees are 100% in play, no one here and Lift 6 was spinning. Go!
Lift 6
I took a lot of pics of Lift 6
Ski on lifts, powder every run.
I skied alone for an hour. Then, I reached out to Bruce through FB messenger.
Harv: Hey you got a ski partner for me?
BM3: Where are you skiing?
Harv: Lift 6.
BM3: Jason, our assistant GM will meet you at the top.
I'd skied with Jason once before, and he's a gamer. He agreed to check out my extended version of Harvey's Road, my perfect run off Lift 6. It's all trees T2B.
Jason
Local knowledge took over; Jason convinced me to come with him to the Upper Mountain. I feel at Titus they have a thing about Upper. Like... it's not open all the time, so if it's open, we better get it!
It was certainly the most popular spot, the only time all day I really saw a 'large' gathering of skiers.
I love the angle of Big Al's and the lower section of Outer Outer was sublime.
Big Al's
Eventually Jason had to get back to his real job. I kid you not, I went back to lift 6 and lapped my expanded version of Harvey's Road at least 10 times until lifts closed at 4:15.
I certainly had other options for my early morning audible. But I am very comfortable at Titus, and the snow was off the hook.
Considering the forecast... I'd call it All Time.
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