After a full on week of powder festivities, today was a much more mellow day, with fast turnarounds, smooth machine worked lines, and some new and exciting lines that the new snow made possible. Anderson’s Hill and Lower Primrose Path had been buffed to perfection, and while the most interest was pulled to Mineral Basin, the front of the hill was wide open and smooth top to bottom on the groomed aspects. Those top to bottom not stop runs were so much fun with the snow setting up the consistency for deep carving goodness. The Sun was bright, but lightly filtered by a high thin cloud deck that burned off as the Sun rose higher in the sky.
Tomorrow, look for clouds to be moving in ahead of the next Low Pressure system coming in for Wednesday. The light may be flat, but I expect visibility to be good, but the details may be hard to see. There are plenty of machine worked lines on all sides of the hill to let you dial in your arcs. The off trail interference patterns have been building a bit higher amplitude with the high traffic. I was looking around to scope out the natural smooth lines off trail, which have been nicely covered by the last installment. I expect traffic to continue to be light, and max vertical should be easy to pile up. Now is the time to get a good look before the storm moves in. See the Line. BE the Line