It was a blue bird powder day, with the Gad Valley offering incredible freshly tilled carpets of AHHHHH that just let you dial in every turn with confidence, consistency, and feeling!!! The off trail had developed quite a bit of harbor chop, but keeping a direct line let you punch through the variations without much deflection. The Peruvian Gulch opened, offering a perfect accumulation with the high density product feeling very floaty, topped with increasingly lighter accumulation, which finished out with perhaps 4 or 5% density that just blew up with spectacular delicacy into the air. Sublime!! There had been a lot of slide activity on the old layer that remained from earlier days, and will need to be replenished before it is good for prime time, but there is plenty of lower angle lines that were offering a feel that is as good as it gets.
Traffic was strong and everyone was going hard to the hoop top to bottom all over the hill. It was great to see some strong skiing on all sides of the hill. The Gad 2 lift opened yesterday and was offering amazing lines that have the full terrain package going before a significant coverage averages out the terrain features.
Tomorrow, I’ll be looking for the refreshed machine worked lines that promise to be unbelievably deluxe with all this new product to work with. Dialing in wicked turns has been my goal during the early training days and now I am reaping the rewards of the hard work of getting ready to slice and dice. There may be some cloud cover moving in as the next system begins to move in for Thursday. Get a good look at the features that need to be noted before they get covered, and scope out the lines that will offer the best power blasting this snow can deliver. Remain Standing!!!