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  1. Monday March 17. Day 59. A Monday after a warm sunny weekend. Temp is 30F at open with sunshine. The Slide Bowl at 0830 is firmy firm and unpleasant. KC Bowl at 0900 was much better; firm but with grip. I tried Northwest and Waterfall with James but they were unevenly groomed with loose snow from scrapy skiers. I hit the Slide Bowl again on the way out at 1015 and it had improved quite a bit. Thaw-freeze is here in a big way.
  2. Some skier on the chair this morning at Mt. Rose asked me if I know Steve from Ohio at Heavenly. I guess maybe I do?
  3. Friday March 15. Day 58. Another NWS warning for strong lake winds seemed to have scared many people off. A cool 13F at open with only light winds. It would have been sunny if not for the one big a-hole cloud that sat over the hill all morning. Groom is very good. Firm and fast. A warming trend is coming that will take resort temps into the 40s over the next several days. Reno is supposed to hit 70 in the city.
  4. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday March 11-14. Day 57. Monday was cloudy and windy and challenging. Didn't ride Tuesday because of bad wx. Wednesday was pretty good. NWS had posted a high wind warning for Thursday which seemed to have scared lots of people off. It was mostly sunny and a little windy, but not at the levels which would cause lift holds. Temp at open was only 9F, making it one of the coldest days yet. Conditions on the Slide Bowl and Silver Dollar were hero good. At 9AM I did one run down the KC bowl which had a strong headwind and so-so grooming with unpleasantly firmy snow. I went back to Slide and tore that up for an hour. Very few people on the hill.
  5. Sunday March 10. Day 54. I went up on my first Sunday now that my pass is unrestricted. I get to the Slide lot early and the wind is howling. Windows in the lodge are shaking. I got first chair on Zephyr and made a run down the bowl. The grooming is smooth but the winds had scoured all of the fine snow out, leaving a bunch of raspy snow pebbles over firm cord. I headed for the KC Bowl around 8:50 and Zephyr went on wind hold. On the KC traverse I encountered a softbooter sitting on the trail who couldn't make any progress into the screaming headwind. I got to the bowl and got first tracks on firm, fast, smooth groom. The light was flat at first but quickly turned into sun breaks. I think I got around 4 laps on the Lakeview lift when Northwest went on wind hold. The lift line at Lakeview became unreasonably long so I bailed out and had to take a shuttle back to the Slide parking lot. I got a few good runs with good turns. It was kinda worth the trouble. Kinda.
  6. Wednesday-Friday March 6-8. Day 53. Generally good riding these days with the snow gradually getting firmer. Thursday was good for the first 90 minutes then a cloud bank socked in the entire mountain for the rest of the day. Friday was sunny and crowded. I made good turns on the top of Silver Dollar which is finally flat and well-groomed.
  7. Tuesday March 5. Day 50. The Slide parking lot was closed so I went to the main lot and lined up at the Lakeview lift for the 9 AM open. It was cloudy with high winds. Grooming in the KC Bowl was not great but not bad either, given the circumstances. I made some good turns when there was enough sun to actually see the surface. The steep blues under the chair looked fairly well groomed but I didn't try them. I wanted to go try the Slide side but was afraid of getting stranded there as both the Northwest and Zephyr lifts were going on and off of wind hold.
  8. Monday March 4. Mt. Rose just re-opened finally, reporting 7-8 feet of new snow since last Thursday. The road is only open on the Reno side, and is still closed towards Incline Village. Winds are howling and the summit lifts may or may not operate.
  9. Sunday March 3. Mt. Rose is closed again for the 4th straight day. The resort claims well over six feet of new snow. I read that Palisades recorded a 190 mph wind gust. Maybe it will open tomorrow if everybody can get ahead of the snow, including road crews.
  10. Tuesday-Wednesday February 27-28. Day 49. Monday had bad weather but Tuesday and Wednesday were good carving days with nice weather and groom. Now on Thursday the resort is closed due to an oncoming storm. The area is under blizzard warning for the next 3 days. 4-8 feet of snow is expected with peak winds exceeding 100 mph.
  11. Do the Bali carvers still ride there?
  12. Friday February 23. Day 47. Another nice day. Rather than being hero firm, it was about the same as yesterday. Great carving early in the bowls but the snow started to come apart after an hour. I got a few runs with James. Yesterday I met another hardbooter in crazy old gear. I tried Big Bonanza early but it was disappointingly soft and uneven. I also have to say that the Silver Dollar run always seems uneven. It looks like a great carving run, but maybe it needs 10 feet of snow to flatten out.
  13. Thursday February 22. Day 46. Sunny and cool at open with good groom that is a little soft on top. Daytime temp is going just above freezing. Hopefully tomorrow will be firm, tight hero snow. Here is Slide Bowl before open.
  14. Wednesday February 21. Day 45. 2-4" of new reported. Both the Slide Bowl and KC Bowl have a couple of inches of new over groom. Some carving is possible but it gets unpleasant once the surface gets bumped up. No new is in the forecast for the next few days. Thursday should be a "first day of groom" situation. Friday might be an epic firm groom day.
  15. Tuesday February 20. Day 44. Perhaps 2 feet of new snow fell since Friday, with 6-8" of it last night. Tuesday morning is partly cloudy with a little wind. Lots of people are here at open, with many families. I heard that some parts of N. Cal are on break. The snow is soft and there are varying inches of new snow and windblown everywhere so carving isn't possible. I ended up down on the easy green runs which were the only ones groomed just before open.
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