Sunday: Kirkwood
Another storm, a bit warm, but just cold enough to give usable snow instead of half rain, so I drove up to go enjoy it for a few days:
roads were already nice and white on the way up
thankful to have underground parking for the duration of my trip
another impressive wall of snow
lots of snow, the top of cornice had some almost invisible real cornices like that, I fell down from that one
school run was a rounding error
it was still a bit too warm and wet
by the end of the day, things looked good though :)
Monday: Kirkwood
While sunday was wet and cold, Monday was a nice bluebird:
Kirkwood has a real problem with electric charging, this is the only charger left on the entire property
notice the huge pile of storage snow by the parking lots
got one of the first few chairs up the wall. Wee!
interestingly, the top of the chutes by the wall were bare due to wind blowing the snow away
this is the one time I had to unbind that day :)
Another picture of the storage snow pile in the parking lot
pretty big cornice by the wave
it was a bit of a jump into snow that wasn't exactly a pillow underneath :)
I got down, but it was a bit scary :)
snow as wind packed at the top, deeper lower down
Tuesday: Kirkwood
Tuesday got more snow, which was free refills all day
the wall had so much snow that they gated you to come down before the chairs, the regular ramp that went under, didn't fit anymore
weather and visibility improved during the day, so much snow
I literally managed to snowboard all the way back to the building parking lot across the street :)
Wednesday: Heavenyly Side Country
The last day, I could have stayed at kirkwood for a 4th powder day with another foot of freshies, but I went to Heavenly to meet my friend Ovidiu and Rik joined us later for some frond side country runs. It was a bit last minute, so driving there in less than 1H in the snow, was "challenging", but I made it :)
got to the gate for the first run
eventually we got to below the snow line and had to walk a bit
then there was a bit of snow left to finish up