December 23, 2005, Crystal Mountain

Rumors of snow falling last night were definitely fullfilled. <br><br>The bottom half of the mountain things were wet and slow, but up high about a foot of fresh, blue skies, and sparsely populated slopes made for a really great day. The snow above Chinook chairlift was pretty dense, but excellent for making huge turns on a board. High Cam(p)bell, Powder bowl, and Green Valley offered lots of great lines. Southback was opened around noonish, but I was unable to make it over before the storm started riding in... <br><br>About lunchtime things got back to "normal", however. The storm came in and slowly changed from snow to hard rain by 3:00 pm. <br><br>If you were going to go to Crystal this week, this would have been the day.