Great day, great that I could help you eskinmo (would have preferred just a nice ski run) and I do enjoy bantering with you, enjoyed very much skiing with you myikat your looking great on those "real" locked in heels skiing like a real skier and yes amazingly skykilo I can be nice (though I did think about it) PS I be ddk lower case just a random fyi since I'm kinda low key? Anyway if I had posted first my final Crystal report for this season would be:Â
04/21/19 - Crystal Big Incredible Prime Finish
Looked kinda iffy early morning, what will it be like, what to wear? But by the time CHex started loading - BIG BLUE BIRD skies, icy shady groomers, prime sunny groomers (LS and GV Bowl) and by 9:30 groomers dropped off the options cause Grubstake, Bearpits, SunnySide all started going prime and just kept getting better and better all day. Hamster mode kicked into overdrive while I was skiing with Ryan ( a very nice and great skier - used to be a lift opp, recently working in the performance ski rental shop), with multi BP's and SunnySides all morning with one MIFB thrown in (biggest bumps I've ever remember seeing there - probably got bigger, but I didn't repeat - cause SunnySide was Hamster Heaven). Coverage is still great - not that it matters anymore. Crowd was pretty light for last day - though many folks might have been watching the activities at the base mid day - don't know cause I pretty much skied hamster style all day from the opening bell to the last load on REX! Can't remember the last time I've skied all day, it was just to dang nice prime. Big very, big bump fun - almost made me forget KT-22. Saw a number of TAY folks and skied with some (myikat, Scottsman and eskinmo) The run with eskinmo was a real story, dropping into PB my first time watched him do a double toe ski eject and slide 3/4 of PB - ouch! and I had to be nice and pick up his skies stuck in the hill like toothpicks! I went back and repeated PB to enjoy an actual run down it (with out carrying a pair of big heavy planks - ha ha), very nice and I did it a few more times, but SunnySide was overall hamster heaven better, to many times to count. Probably one of the best ever closing days I've had at Crystal - at least in a long time. Coverage is still better than most of the season - so sad their closing, dang!
Other - Parking in A lot was a mess do to the very large crowd that showed up for sun rise services, which I think was not great, so I was parked pretty far back in a not very full lot. By the time I left there were even less cars parked randomly in A lot - spaced and don't know about any other parking lots, was watching all the cats (6 of them) firing up (parked in a row at the bottom of the A lot above the B lot) to start prepping the slopes on FQex for next weekends big snowboard party! Don't know if there was any soup available on the mountain, heard the buffet at the top was overboard nice, but I think the skiing was better.
Great final day! Wish there were more, but hopefully Alpy at least come through till the 5th, then I can post a lot of "new" short threads about conditions there - before Whistler or Hood or Bachelor or maybe another trip to Tahoe. Anyway have a great summer for those folks that are done and to the backcountry TAY community have a great time for the next couple of months - know you all will.
