18/19 Padded Seats recaps

Sunny Sunday fun, nice contrast to cold early March. Cover low for end of March, that is for sure. Bonus Silver Fir was grab-olicious.

Please do!! And I will too the next time I see him. Super strong and smooth on top, I was so pumped. And then looked strong down Low I, comments by a number of coaches around me on his bump technique. 8th place rocks!!! That was a strong field.

rewarded with a few days at Bachelor where he *found* the park. figured he ski the bumps well but sticking the drop from adrenaline was $$$.

the Sliver skied well, quiet snow high wispy clouds empty chairs.

Rained. Snow sucked. Vis was terrible. Nash was rocky. Jerrys were on course. More terrain was closed than open. Can't wait to do it all again tomorrow ;D

seriously mediocre but much was accomplished

a re-cap for the past week include much variation in conditions and mood.
we skied out the midweek run of mild weather at acre/Sliver.
it was good training for the weekend that included low expectations which were exceeded by the relatively dry air, though the snow was classic maritime.
9:30 up Padded Seats with lilC for an *oversnowed* bonding lap,
went well.

looked like winter skied like spring

Hard to believe the only necessary piece of wet weather equipment necessary this past weekend was a google squeegee

Today's weather, OTOH... good thing the hill's closed on weekdays

would have been nice to have Thursday Friday lift loading

thicc yhuuge debris in Nash gonna take a village to groom
deb's & ingrid's were all that remained of lower besides park
yeah, park crew was checking passes at st bernard slopeside
it's weird to think they need to *create* terrain at Alpental.

was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor
was winter over when it was 80* in march oh hell no

A full on winter skiing day with a friendly snow surface
gate opened after lunch allowing passage to her cleaver
clean lines top to bottom found at the top of her steps
silky smooth with mounds & curves in all the right spots

piper reported a groomer up Deb's

piper reported a groomer up Deb's

I reckon the cat made it up a bit further than that...

that'd be nice to not have to beat a path down edelweiss

Had no idea Germans bombed pearl harbor😎

LBD420 was a good session and properly kind
plenty of slope to let the big skis make tracks.
snow held it's glaunch where it wasn't pounded

Easter was better than Christmas this year. clearly there must have been something else going on that kept the pugetopolis powder techs away from LoT4. crossed paths with nary an uphiller, sledder, dog walker and spent a considerable amount of time thanking UllR for the opportunity to slay the magical surface that is spring snow.

somuch nonsense yesterday
does it wanna snow or sun?
do ya want the smooth muck
or how bout that Jan blue ice?
such a fun ski day with friends!

April duh 28thOwas absolutely mediocre
overnight freezeO limited and i mean so
limited groomO like a strip down DebbyO
Edelweiss though responded to the sunO
and things quickly thawed out in the bcO
kind group of folks spending another DayO
skiing the shit outta the last laps at AlpyO

enjoy your summer folks, i'm off to Hawai'i 420-0.
bobby

The slides that  ran over Cascade Traverse and the closed trails on the upper mountain combined to create some fantastic human obstacles courses given the "last day nothing else but Mission  Ridge open" crowds. Stuff that  had been skied a bit was pretty fun. It felt a lot more like post-season touring at the  area than in-season lift riding from a coverage perspective - definitely a heads-up sort of inbounds day!! They closed upper I for a little while somewhere  around 2:30 to allow for safer extraction of someone who  had apparently taken an injurious spill right by the lower entrance. Not a shock given how many people were clearly in over  their heads at various spots.

I took my only fall of the day while standing still after my first lift ride (waiting for some friends to come up Armstrong), waiting in a (I thought) safe spot that  could be well seen from above and was "guarded" by a little one foot tall tuft of shredded evergreen stobs poking out of the snow just uphill of me. A guy plowed his snowboard right through the  thicket of stobs and slammed into me - fortunately his board hit my boot and binding and not my leg above my boot, and I slammed down onto the snow hard enough to bruise a bit but fortunately nothing worse. He fell just above me and nearly karate chopped me with his board as he wildly swung it over toward me in a blindly reflexive attempt to right  himself, but I yelled at him to stop  and wait for me to move out of  his way (and I think I kind of grabbed/pushed the nose of his board before he had given it too much momentum) before doing any more damage to me, and  he relented. Fortunately his fleeing-lemming behavior was NOT a harbinger of what the rest of the  day would hold - all in all it was a fun day and the crowds actually not as impactful on the experience as on some other closing days in seasons past. Oh, and my friend who watched the whole thing from a few feet away said he sounded pretty drunk (at 11AM) when he made some pathetic excuse for his antisocial behavior.