Wednesday 4/7, Jason and I went to Copper. It was supposed to dump, but stupid Vail stole our snow with their cloud seeding. Anyway, its was still 6 in 24 and 9 in 48–just enough to cover the junk. We got there shortly after 9 (since it didn’t dump) and proceeded to ski all over the mountain. Let’s see if I can remember them all…
Storm King to Upper and Lower Enchanted to Eagle to Excellerator to Storm King to Patrol Chute (which is my fave in Sapulding Bowl) to Spaulding Glades to Cross Cut to Reso. Drainpipe to Cabin Chute to Reso, which also had really nice snow. Then Atlantic Cornice (untracked as always) to Cross Cut to Reso to Atlantic Cornice to really tight trees on skiers’ left of Cross Cut. A little to tight for my tastes even.
Followed by Reso to Cache Glades (the upper entrance which turned out to be a dud) to Flyer to Little Burn to Timberline. A couple laps in the trees off Flyer’s lift line which turned out to be really good. I don’t think I’ve ever been in there before. Lunch at T-Rex, well, lunch sitting at T-Rex eating my PB&J. Then, Jason wanted to try the backside.
Timberline to Sierra. Funny story: I’d told Jason we needed to take Sierra to the back side. I realized I was wrong and we needed Rendezvous at exactly the same time he realized he was heading to Rendezvous and I’d told him Sierra. So, with both of these in mind, we turned directly into each other right in front of the back bowls sign. Although we didn’t collide, I hit the brakes as hard as I could and clipped his ski, which threw me over my edges. He got turned around and lost a ski in front of a big tree. Neither one of us got hurt, but it was quite the experience and good for a laugh. Anyway…
Sierra to Revenge Cornice to the Bowl to Sierra to a bigger hit off Revenge Cornice to Revenge trees to Rendezvous. Rendezvous to Mountain Chief to really sucky snow in the bowl to Mountain Chief to Gold Digger to Union Meadows to Timberline. A couple more laps in the Flyer trees to Catalyst and then home.
Overall, quite the day….
