Today was great. Very nice spring conditions. Skied about 830 to 3 with a long lunch break.
Before 10: North Quad areas was surprisingly firm (to me), Sunway was sweet hero snow mash potatoes.
Up top in the morning after 10: Skied Lies 2x, Rumor 2x and then Lies, to Topridge triple to Sunway and then lapped sunway on Twin Fawns trying to zipper route that little sucker. Nearly succeeded one time but caught an edge for an entertaining view for the chair ride.
Rumor skied really, really nice. The first time, I went skier's right, less steep but bigger and more narrow bumps (about one ski length). That was not the best line, but probably fear driven. The second run, some good tele skiers came up and I asked if the headwall was a better line, and they said, we'll see and ripped off some nice tele (!) hop turns. I did the joint between the headwall and the bumps skier's right, which was the best route in my opinion - steeper but easier to ski.
I worry what the freeze will do to Rumor. I did see below the headwall there was a zig/zag lightening shape crack a few inches wide and maybe 10-15 long. I imagine that is going to go loose at some point which won't be good.
Lies was really, really nice for my 2 Rumor warm up runs around 1015. But around 11, it was still good but not super sweet. On warmup runs there was a line of about 12 feet wide with like 5-8 inch deep mashed potatoes - very nice and fun.
After kid group, we had lunch and went to the ski bowl. Peaceful Valley was nice but I actually like Oak Ridge because, ironically, it is more peaceful. Moxham was really nice: mashed potatoes with mixed up chop and brown ground and grass. I like chop and mixed conditions, I just find it fun.
Then we lapped the village chair and at the end my son wanted to race me. I thought I was blowing him away and chilled and I look to my right and the little guy got me! My son and daughter were a blast to ski with. For some reason I think my daughter thought i was going to take her down 46'er but I had no intention of doing that. Family ski milestone: My daughter did her first on piste black at Gore, notching open pit and lower darby with her group (Open pit looked exactly like lies, so I am assuming the conditions were nice. )
