Welcome to Spring
· Apr 6, 09:36 PM
It’s spring here in Central Oregon, which does not mean crust skiing, mountain biking, boating, climbing or any other outdoor recreation – it means winter. I went up to the mountain today to see how the snow pack was holding up, and I’m pleased to report it’s doing just fine. The snowbanks down low are gone, but current base depth at the XC lodge is only 165 inches. We should have skiing for a few more months. Too bad we’re going to only have grooming for another week or so…
Anyways, today was my first ski since the 50k that ended the ‘08 season. It was pretty fun. I was on rock skis, because all I brought down from Canada were my warm skis. At the time, I was thinking that since it was spring it would be a good chance to get to know my klister skis since we didn’t have much klister skiing this winter. Good idea in theory, but it didn’t really pan out today. I skied on Special Violet covered with Super Extra, and the only problems I had getting kick were from snow shear, not any sort of glazing.
It snowed hard while I was skiing, on and off. When it wasn’t snowing it was sunny. The clouds were moving incredibly fast. The only bummer was that while I skied from 9:30 to 11 the groomer was working on Oli’s, Leslie’s and Divecka’s and they were all roped off. So no lower trails – too bad. It was actually very nice to be skiing (err, shuffling) along in a snowstorm though.
I have a bone to pick with ODOT too. Yesterday was the mandatory, required by law, take off your studded tires or else day. (My studs aren’t very good, but the tread pattern is a little better at dealing with snow than my all seasons). Today I was in a line of cars going up to Bachelor, and most people were sliding around the corners. It was a little disconcerting.
That’s about all for now. Maybe I’ll have some pictures sometime soon.
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Skiing through a snowstorm (on hardwax that works) rates right up there with tromping.
— MSHO Apr 7, 10:01 AM #