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After an accumulating niar-snow-niar event the surface at WaWa has taken on an unusual (but not unpleasant) texture. The cover on Conifer and 10th is now pretty reasonable due to massive snowmaking efforts, but Smith is still lacking (and not open during lift served hours.) There were a couple of skinners ahead of me on Conifer, one moving 3x as fast as the other (whom I passed), and there appeared to be at least one down-track (probably the faster guy's) on the way up. Arriving at the summit just as the first lift riders were unloading I waited a few minutes for the traffic to clear, then took cruiser on Conifer, followed by a cool-off lift ride (first of the season) to scope out 10th. The lifty at the summit was shaking her head and made some comment I didn't quite catch about skiing in a T-shirt, but I explained that skinning up when it's north of 20F can be pretty sweaty, especially if you're sprinting to get there before the lift starts running. :-) For the season it seems I'm running a ~10:1 ratio of earned /lift ridden vertical. That is bound to change soon, but it'll be awhile before it flips to 1:10. dana - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html