Yesterday (Saturday) was quite a nice ski day. No wind. Surfaces were hard-ish but edgeable.  Temp just about right (for me, sweaty pig who had to go in today because he was sweating too much).  Quite crowded at MRG but lines not bad at all. Maybe 3min was the longest wait I had on the single - 1.5 rows of line. 

Today, different story.  Colder. Windy. -9 to -6 or so. Windchill -21 to -30 that I saw on the tele. No lines. Parents of ski school kids in jeans and snow boots. Double way colder than single. I swear it was 80% kids skiing, and most of those 20% of adults were being dragged around by a kid. 

Overnight most of the fluff seemed to blow away, things compacted, and everything was quite a bit consistently harder. That said, still mostly edgeable steep or shallow. Only a few spots I’d call ice. Ski school kids hung tough. 

Chute and paradise were fun Saturday. Today I think I enjoyed my turns on canyon the most. Gazelle was ok too, on the left.  What powder there is in troughs was wind packed and dense and waiting to snag you if you got lazy. Traffic very thin - each run it felt like your own mountain.  Not the best day for 125mm skis but hey they do make it more interesting. 

Took a careful run down outhouse woods (using safe words to not offend children) and there are a lot of low-hanging branches and whatnot from the freezing nair.  However, the snow was good (fairly soft, not icy), coverage was good (not many stumps etc).  A little more snow would be useful, and traffic might help too.  A 12 inch dump would be a lot of fun. 

I also learned why gauntlet style gloves have that elastic pull at the end when I punched through a bunch of powder and stupidly took my glove off a minute later without shaking it out first.  I’ve never tightened it till that happed today.  Good god not the day to learn this. 

Can’t wait for next weekend’s projected -20s. 

-Chris