We went up to the hike terrain on the ridge, and the top had some kind of icy powder, almost like shaved ice, interesting to ride. after that, it went kind of downhill a bit (ah!)

Be careful on the lifts :)

After a day of skiing, we had seen all the mountain, and kind of imagined how good it could have been given non icy snow :-

The next morning, I woke up to 2ft of powder, but very heavy winds. Sure enough the lifts obviously didn't open on time, but kirkwood did an amazing job getting things opened and cornice opened at 10:30, despite heavy winds at the top and a sheet of ice when you unloaded. Snow coverage was weird, the wind packed most of that snow, so it wasn't very fluffy, and in places it was icy as the entire 2ft of fresh snow had been blown off. Still, it didn't suck :)

did I say windy?

Coop came to see us in line to let us know about delays

and by 10:30, we were up :)

and by about 14:00, the wall got opened, which opened more nice runs

While the conditions were rough, it was very cold and super windy, but eh, you have to get the snow when you can :)

The next day was pretty much a bluebird, but very windy, so windy that they were not able to open chair 4 until 13:50:

I hiked up the ridge from the top of cornice

still super windy

finally the backside opened and I got 3 rides before they closed it for the day