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2009-12-12 01:01
in Nsnow, Snow
While we had early snow in October, our supposed El Nino ended up being disappointing so far: no real snow until now, but this week we got a good 4-5 feet at kirkwood, so it made up for it.
We didn't get quite there at opening time due to a screw in one of the tires, but by re-inflating a few times we made it there and back.
However that meant that when I finally arrived with my ticket (which took 45mn to get due to kirkwood having their computerized pass processing all messed up that day) around 10:30, cornice hadn't even opened yet, which was a bit sad for Kirkwood, but convenient for us :) Weather saturday was pretty miserable but the winds were as bad as scheduled. It was still cold and wet though.
Jim's trusty snow prius with spike spiders
However that meant that when I finally arrived with my ticket (which took 45mn to get due to kirkwood having their computerized pass processing all messed up that day) around 10:30, cornice hadn't even opened yet, which was a bit sad for Kirkwood, but convenient for us :) Weather saturday was pretty miserable but the winds were as bad as scheduled. It was still cold and wet though.
we had powder, even if it didn't feel that deep
this is why they had to do avalanche control
mmmh, wrong time of the season to come down here
but I did jump down because I couldn't get safely back up
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