Activity
has begun on the installation of the new lifts. From the bottom all that
is really obvious is the clearing of trees on the skier's right of Meadow.
This shot was taken in the parking lot looking straight up the lift line of
the detachable quad. I believe everything will be smoothed out to give
a constant slope down to about where this shot was taken.
This evidence of things happening seemed like a suitable excuse to take a trot up top to check things out. Okay, trot wouldn't be the best term to use to describe how I drag my sorry old body up the hill, but it sounds better than slog.
There
wasn't much fresh lift spoor on the way up to the top of this lower quad with
the exception of stakes flagging the location of the lift towers. At the
top though this big guy seemed to be waiting for some serious action.
Continuing
on up the Siberia/Timberline ridge (there is a road now) revealed that Mr. Cat
had already been busy. The bottom of Siberia Bowl appears to have been
cleared to make a wide and very gentle ski run. This picture was taken
from just below the pass into the Sand Creek area and would be accessible from
the upper Quad.
Still
following the road I crossed back across Timber Bowl and climbed up towards
the ridge where the upper Quad will unload. Some serious landscraping
had gone on here as well and in fact a four wheel drive can almost make it to
the top. While I am certainly looking forward to all the great skiing
being opened up, I could not help but be saddened by the loss of the pristine
alpine bowl that used to be.
Finally
at the top of the new lift, this shot looks back down into Timber Bowl.
As you may have already guessed I got rather carried away taking pictures on
this little walk, so I have split this report into two pages. If you want
to see more pictures click here ...
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