It
was a gorgeous, sunny day today and here a sun drenched Lizard Bowl glows above
the beginner slope in this shot taken from the Mighty Moose. Apparently
lots of people thought it would be a nice day to go skiing and since Monday
is a holiday in Alberta and some schools are beginning reading week, the line
ups were pretty daunting this morning.
I say 'this morning' because just a couple of runs after dropping my daughter off for
Nancy Greene, it was time to pick her up again for lunch. I decided I could spend my time
in other ways, although the rest of the family stayed to tough it out.
We
did manage a run down Cedar Ridge which had a few centimetres of nice new soft
snow, although icy spots were also present in trafficked areas farther down.
Due to the line up on the Bear we did not get above the top of Boom,
but I suspect the snow got progressively nicer the higher you went. This
shot shows a shady lower Cruiser witg Griz Peak and Upper Cedar above.
We
took Sunnyside on our return trip and I found the center part quite soft and
rather delightful, but my wife reported the more frequented right side had some
scrappy bits. Here my son skis through some of the soft but not
very deep snow that characterized most of what we saw of the upper mountain.
A cruise down Freeway found the typical icy moguls, but with enough soft
to make a reasonable trip down possible. The lower runs were rather hard,
but undoubtedly everything softened up later under the warm sun.
At 2:00 PM it is 4C at the house under a sunny sky.
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