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Reflections Of Spring.




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A key insight for any genuinely warm spring skiing is
the need for ski/board base wax or coatings to facilitate
optimized glide and speed when corn snow moisture
saturations want to slow you down. By breaking the
suction that’s trying to glue your skis to the surface,
you can actually keep enough speed to break loose
over little contours for some fun time air time!




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Another successful spring skiing strategy is to stay
on the shady trail-sides where the direct solar energy
is being diffused by tree and contour shadows. You’d
be amazed by the often very dramatic difference in
naturally retained firmness and speed that exists
within a 2 or 3 metre width on many trails between
the solar baked side and the tree shaded side that
makes the descent experience completely different,
and better, on the shaded side.



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Weather Notes:


What will likely make today seem cooler is the unusual
windspeed that is noticeable, especially heading into it
at descent speeds.






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Unfortunately we have to put this in as it is our policy
to include all official weather alerts, but fortunately,
if you can see it that way, the active parts are outside
of, i.e., not during “open hours” so should not impact
ski conditions, at least atmospherically.




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The chill in the hill from months of Polar Vortex is still
evident right here and right now with this extraordinary
sample you can go to immediately. This is one of our primary
Sous Bois diagnostic trail points and the reality is that
it is exceptional for any April 18 in history.



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Conditions Notes:


Generally:

Authentic, genuine, super-soft spring that morph’s
from firmer and more congealed in the morning,
to almost mushy, then somewhat slushy in the later
stages of the day.

Even though the temps have been just above Zero C,
the overnight tendency is for things to firm up as without
sunlight, the cold stored in the mass of the Mountains
conical shape is essentially radiating an outward chilling
effect at surface levels and without any rain, most of the
surface saturation from yesterdays peak afternoon heat
has been wicked off by the porosity of the corn snow so
for a few early hours we get a fast, frosty, fun loose top
layer of really fine high performance.

Of course(a), there are some sketchy patches where
topographical contours have had thinner coverages
and the spring heat thaw is evident, but they tend to
be really obvious, and those that are not so obvious
tend to be staked out by the Ski Patrol, however...
with this amount of heat intensity the thaw exposures
will in some cases be changing by the hour so you’ll
need to be constantly looking for tell-tale colouration
changes and/or the appearance of newly forming bare
patches.

Of course(b), and depending on closing weekend traffic,
inevitably surfaces get tracked up to variable degrees,
but what typically tends to happen is that the attendance
is relatively low to begin with, and very often, those who
are here may get distracted by the “Tailgate” “Hatchback”
“Patio” BBQ Parties at base levels and out on the trails you
can feel like you’re the only one there for the most part.



















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