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May Day @Alpental, Washington
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A fabulous season of snow riding and friend sharing with minimal suckage!
Super slurpee conditions and a social in LoT4,
till it migrates to the Top o The Padded Seats,
will high light The Day that will be most excellent.
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Gotta say all in all a perfect way to end the Ski season today at Alpy!...Warm from the get go, jumped onto the first empty Armstrong chair around 9:02, soft enough in the right places and still a little way to firm in some shady places. Hamster Treadmill was full on early…especially now that I can finally remember all my fav lines off of Armstrong. Jumped onto an empty Chair 2 early…hot warm slow thinking chair ride up…big views pretty much everywhere – finally noticed Rainer from the top…plus nice views north and all the peaks I see from Crystal that are a lot closer to Alpy than I realized. Edel bowl was big huge fun bumps early, but the line up by mid morning was way past my hamster world…so spent the day lapping Armstrong over and over and over …and found some new for me tree slots to provide some solomn gate type skiing – much to much fun. Softer snow than yesterday, bigger crowd over all, kept me from doing Nash, but the line up on AS was short enough to be entertaining.
Other – Soup…dang forgot to look again, thought about it at least twice…but the combo pizza was big and very good again….sitting in the sky bridge between the two buildings, eating big pizza, drinking nasty beer, looking out at folks sliding down the slopes to the base and all the folks hanging out at the base…gotta say pretty dang pleasant.
Other – easy parking again, lots looked pretty full when I bailed out at 2pm again today…probably way to early, since it looked like the lift lines were gone at the base…but the quads were definitely complaining…dang all those happy fun deep soft bumps! Bumped into another happy TAY poster – Neil...should do more posts to off set my biased to happy reports…
Other other other – Gotta repeat that today was a great day to be skiing a big happy fun sunny warm day to finish the lift served season in Washington! What a nice way to finish it off!...
So with this report I give the Alpy ski conditions TAY posting’s back to all those folks lucky enough to ski (or ride) at the Alpental all winter long….see you all next year for the final days!
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Yo ddk, you should'a hollered once in our direction, we don't bite.
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DDK - We should introduce you to the terrain out on the high traverse. Not hamster-wheel territory, but very enjoyable. As long as you promise to tell everyone form that resort down south: "Alpental? Don't bother! It's always better at Crystal."
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It was festive and the corn was harvested
www.flickr.com/photos/11723786@N06/albums/72157667270170350
a few pics from Saturday and Sunday
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Nice Silas!! See you on Thursday for Sinko!Hey Bobby, I skied with (style and) grace today. Thanks Dan for spinning the Alpensmall lifts on a much nicer weekend. One more day please?!
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Sounds like the ad hoc Cinco is still on. Hmmmmmm.............
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Being solo, and a bit line-adverse like DDK mentioned, I didn't hang out long, but enough to get one down Adrenaline and a few on AS.
Acck, where did all these skiers/partiers come from? I thought everyone had moved on to kayaking or something
Proof that I waited in that massive line on chair 2...
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Massive compared to skiing up and getting on the chair which I have done several times this past season.
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Oh and btw, there are great pools (easier access) over on the Commonwealth creek just about 15 minutes from the PCT parking lot.
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