Catching up...still snowing

Due to the sale of a certain company to another certain company, I've been a little distracted. But with many of the formalities out of the way, we can refocus on the important things. On the weekend after my last post, I had an enjoyable, sunny, mellow day with some friends a Crystal Mountain. It's big, open terrain (like Campbell Basin in the video below) is always a nice break from Alpental's gnarly, well...gnarliness.

That said, one day is about enough (gets a little boring), and it was time to get back home to Alpental. The weekend after Crystal, we had a nice, warm spring weekend followed by a weekend of yet another series of winter storms. I was only able to ski Saturday afternoon for a couple hours due to work stuff, but even then I found thigh-deep powder. Unreal!

This past weekend, we had a little of everything. On Saturday, there was boot-deep powder in the morning (nice!) followed by fun spring snow and more fun spring pitchers of beer on the lodge deck. The video shows just how amazing the snowpack is for this time of year. Still more than 200 inches at the top! Sunday was more of the same, except bottles instead of pitchers.

This coming weekend is the last hurrah for lift service. Combine that with impending Cinqo de Mayo and, needless to say, it will be a little...ummmm....enthusiastic up there. Kind of a sombreros and cervaza deal. Closing weekend is always great as long as it doesn't rain. It's kind of a relief, in a way. It's always nice to be forced to start touring, getting into some big, wilder terrain.