The Real Bev wrote:
On 02/04/2015 11:20 AM, Bob F wrote:
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.

This season and toward the end of the last, the Snow Summit groomers
seem to have lost their touch. Big frozen ridges between passes,
holes that aren't filled in, and just generally inadequate. I can
see there will be problems with only a little snow, but they can push
enough in from the sides (I assume, anyway) to be able to at least do
it right out in the middle.

When I complained they apologized and said they'd mail me some lunch
vouchers. Nothing yet...

I remember a day or 2 like that. I suspect a recently "graduated" trainee.