Where are you skiing this week?

[raisingarizona]

Such is the nature of mid-April powder, almost anywhere. I’ll take it! Even with cold temps the sun this time of year has big impacts.

Not a lot of snow flying in the 5 day….but A Basin seems poised to do best, with resorts on the Divide hopefully sneaking out a 6-10 in powder day on Saturday.

I fly out tonight.

Take some pics and post up! Have fun!

 

[JTG]

Take some pics and post up! Have fun!

Will do. East Wall in late April becoming a tradition!

 

[raisingarizona]

Will do. East Wall in late April becoming a tradition!

I love me some East Wall laps! You need to get a SFB in one of these years.

 

[Country Gun]

Last run up from PA-NY border of the season to Gore.
Hope it is sunny Sunday!

 

[JTG]

Copper Mountain today. Not shabby for three days after the storm in the back half of April!

 

[raisingarizona]

Get ya sum JTG!

 

[JTG]

The terrain out there is mellow, actually all of Copper is pretty mellow, but in the right conditions….

 

[raisingarizona]

The terrain out there is mellow, actually all of Copper is pretty mellow, but in the right conditions….

Ain’t nothing wrong with mellow now. They have some steeps I thought. Maybe they aren’t open this late in the season though.

 

[JTG]

Ain’t nothing wrong with mellow now. They have some steeps I thought. Maybe they aren’t open this late in the season though.

Yeah, when everything is open they have some decent steeps. Tucker Mountain can be a lot of fun. Alas, with spring operations Tucker is shut down. Once I was far out in Union Meadows (told you it’s mellow) today, close to the boundary, I really was tempted to skin up and ski this line off the back (the Copper Tucker terrain is down the other side of that ridge) of Tucker.

Plenty steep and looks fun. I was smart enough not to, although it wouldn’t have been that hard to get to, and the entire traverse out to Union it just stared me temptingly in the face.

That said, Copper doesn’t have a Main Baldy, no Fingers, no East Wall. Maybe that kind of terrain is hiding out there, I don’t know Copper that well. However, I haven’t found the kind of steeps at Copper that make your heart skip an extra beat.

 

[JTG]

A Basin today. 5 inches in the lot, gotta be more up high. Worth first chair!