lal_truckee wrote:
On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one
sucky and two meh.

(That's six...)

I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural
to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with
good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there.

It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers
anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of
us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the
dissipation of the off-shore high.

It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun
days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and
when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have
great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily
rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that
crusty heavy surface.

I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain
going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and
the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of
snowmaking due to the normally warm temps.

Unfortunately, our forcasts currently show heavy rain for the next week. But
then again, we started last year pretty slow, and mid February started the best
powder spell I can remember. I'll keep hoping our temperature will drop that few
degrees we need to make the switch. And, I'll keep going up every chance I get
when it won't be actually raining for at least the morning.