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It was a technically great day, what was opened was surprisingly
fine after yesterdays whacky weather and the base throughout the
vast majority of the Groomed has survived with amazing resilience.

It did start to drizzle/rain just around 11:00, lightly, for quite a while,
so it was possible to continue on, with the right equipment... Then came
the real wet, so practically speaking, things became a bit impractical
by about 1:30. You could literally see the weather coming in...



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The durability of the base can easily be demonstrated by
attempting to plunge a ski pole through any groomed
trail surface. For about 95%, you’ll break your wrist before
you get below the very solid mantle that still is at this stage,
acting as an effective membrane of coverage retention.



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The groomed surfaces are a composition of semi-crystalline spring
corn snow with some ground up frozen-rain particulate, all in a smooth
corduroy mix that skis with a very natural feel underfoot. While they
are comparatively shallow over the solid base, there is a variable depth
between 5 to 10 cm’s that has a very “bankable” lateral turning grip
capability that can hold an aggressive edge-set as long at your energy
is applied gradually. Too much suddenly applied force will get you a
skidded loss of traction, but in that sense, “parallel” style turns are
easy on steeper slope angles.




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What you can see above that looks like “mashed potatoes” is the
integrated blend of the corn snow with the small bits of icy frozen
rain.

It should be noted that so-far, the corn snow has been quite
fast and additionally capable of wicking the rain off the surface
so there’s been far less surface saturation than might be expected.
Furthermore, considering that there is also far less wet thaw
penetration into the base than might be expected with the amounts
of rain falling over regional ground levels, we’d have to say that the
Mountain has gotten a lot less rain than ground levels. That would be
consistent with our 80/20 rule where elevations get more
favourable weather than ground levels, in this case due to the
fact that more rain falls under the cloud, rather than in the cloud
i.e., when the Summit is cloud fogged like it was for a good part
of the day, today. Riding up the Duncan Quad the upper levels
for the most part were obviously getting far less rainy.

Right now the important parts are all about the base because
that’s going to be fundamental to the remaining days.

Good weather opportunities may be coming up too, however
the long range forecast has been changing, sometimes every
few hours, so you’re going to need to be ready to go on
potentially very short notice.




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Starts Out Great, But Ends Up “Who Knows Where?”


The actual weather and the forecast models
are just full of conflicting signals that are
sometimes changing by the hour.

We hope to let you know exactly how that works out...


Welcome To Spring!



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Weather Notes:


Emphasis on “Evolving”...





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Conditions Notes:


Generally:

Elevations got down to -1C overnight after
a substantially hot and rainy yesterday so
the probability is that to begin with, everything
may have “Crispy” overtones. Where freshly
groomed we actually think it could be very fine,
where opened un-groomed many, many adventurous
wild cards that want cautious exploration. Please
respect all hand posted Ski Patrol signage.

We won’t exactly know how much affect yesterdays
weather had until we get a few runs today so we’re
going to keep this short, try to do some field work
and get back to you with more insight on the rapidly
evolving spring dynamic.












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