What Belle (and presumably Gore) put out yesterday felt like Co powder skiing to me (admittedly with only two trips); the 'problem' is that weekend warriors get that 2-5 x a year. On a western trip you could get that everyday, and then the dryness preserves the quality of the snow left on the ground.
Amazing packed powder today. Legs toast. Sticking to the groomers.
That’s right up my alley.
A friend and I both got our skis stuck under weeds skiing newly opened twin fawns on Saturday. Not much speed and pitch so no real problems. But the same thing on Hawkeye wouldn’t have been fun. I’m not defending the avalanche talk, but there may have been a reason to pack down a few lines before dropping the rope.Amazing day minus the multiple disasters with the lots and getting Straight Brook open.
I heard an all time BS reason for why it took so long to open Straightbrook. Patrol told folks waiting in line there was an avalanche risk on Hawkeye and was why they couldn't open it and needed to "pack it down" by skiing it multiple (6) times and it was unsafe. Chatemac too. We thought it was in jest but they were dead serious.
So they going to require a beacon, probe, and shovel to ski it from now on after a dump? Of all the reasons I have heard for delaying opening something this is by far the most ridiculous ever. They do know that people actually think and can reason neither trail is that steep to have a full on avalanche and if it did it would go maybe, I don't know, 100 yards
I was up to Gore after Thanksgiving one year and a lot was open but the dang briars were the real rippers till they got cut up and/or stomped down.
Might head up again sometime this week.
Yes once you get a taste it’s tough not to continously crave it. I made my first western ski trip almost 6 years ago. It absolutely was a key transformational experience in my life.
