The tradition continues!

'Twas a warmish gray and very quiet morning on Thursday. It felt a bit like a ghost town- I didn't see ANYBODY the whole time I was there, save one car that drove through the parking lot without stopping.  Challenger and Ralph's were the only trails with cover. Challenger appeared to have a bit more than Ralphs, and was the obvious choice.

There was decent contiuous cover from above the Ski Patrol shack at the top lift station down to the Ski School at the bottom.  The upper part even had corduroy(!), albeit less than edge to edge cover:

https://vimeo.com/147348757

From just below the split with Look Ma it was all snow-cat track & warmed-over death cookies, a bit cruncy, skiable, not super-cruisey:

https://vimeo.com/147348765

With nobody around to goad me into skiing Ralphs too it was one run & done. I stopped to snap a selfie in the parking lot (haven't uploaded it anywhere)and was home in PLENTY of time to prep for the party. 

They opened on schedule on Friday, and should be opening up more terrain this week.  I'm planning to hit Tuesday or Wednesday in the AM, maybe even take a lift ride or two if I'm there late enough.

dana

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