Day 31 and it's the 2 metre party

It snowed overnight but during the night it turned to rain on the deck and the temp came up to about +1. The rain line was only just above the base on the hill and 22 cms of fresh quite heavy snow had come down over night giving a base of 202 cms so tonight was the 2 metre party.

As you would expect in these conditions we hit the new side to stay high and get the best snow. Even with this as a tactic the snow was quite heavy and creamy but skied well and when chopped up stayed in good shape probably because the temps stayed just below zero at the top.

It was a classic new side opening with first only Highline/ Heartland opened so that's what we skied. Next the I bowl opened so we could get across to Surprise Trees and had three excellent laps going further into the chutes to get untracked snow each time. For the whole of the day it was real hero snow so you could just push your skis in the fall line then bang out some tight turns.

As always next on the agenda was Anaconda which we looped twice taking the tight chutes due to the conditions and exiting via Bootleg Glades which had also filled up with good snow.

Finally they opened Currie with the low traverse out the Skydive. Spent the whole of the day looping out into Skydive, Stage Leap, Decline and Cougar glades. All good and not tracked out much in the early stages. Got first tracks in a top to bottom rip of Cougar which was awesome.

Didn't have a break of any kind and spent the aftenoon in a bit of the hill I haven't skied all that much. Started dropping off Decline to the left into the trees and just finding a way down through the terrain. Depending on how I went I either ended up skiers right of Spinal Tap and had to drop into the stream bed from the right or skiers left of the main window chute and had to jump the log drop off to exit the chute. All untracked even at the end of the day and awesome.

Now we are forecast adays rest and then the next weather cycle hit us Sunday night going into Monday - here we go. No hockey tonight, to much to drink and too knackered.

Day 30 still looking pretty good

The best thing about day 30 is that the average daily cost of skiing has dropped below 30 bucks a day which has to be good news. It snowed overnight at temps of about-12 giving up 19 cms in the last 24 hours and this pushed the snow base to 188cms, won't be long before we have the 2 metre party.

Arrived at the hill and decided to hit the New side as it had been so good at close yesterday. The new snow had freshened up everything so a chase for fresh tracks was on. Cougar Glades was a great start followed by Mitchy chutes and then far side of Surprise Trees all first tracks and great.

The whole of the rest of the day was spent looping the New side to the base via such places as Anaconda Glades ( steep, deep and awesome) Sykdive ( face shots all the way down) Lone Fir ( a bit of a hike but loads of deep fresh snow and sloughs that could wipe you out) Secret Chutes ( hardly touched all the way down to Freeway) and the Brain ( mostly unskied this year so thigh deep snow all the way down but loads of hazards) etc, etc.

As usual finished with a rip down Skydive top to bottom which was filling in nicely with the snow which had started to come down hard by the late afternoon. As we rolled acroos the parking lot on the way back from the Griz bar we bumped into a patroller buddy who said they were calling for 15-25 cms tonight which if it is right could point to a really awesome day tomorrow.

Considering it was New Years Day ( Happy New Year) the crowds weren't too bad. A couple of line ups at the bottom and out in the places we were skiing just a few other skiers from time to time, but nothing you could describe as crowds. Currently -3 on the deck and snowing.

Tomorrow's report could be slightly erratic due to a big hockey game against the Nitro's after skiing so the odd glass could be taken.