Things aligned for a 2ft+ storm just before Xmas, so I was able to enjoy the fresh snow, even if a bit wet. Drove up before the storm hit too hard, and roads started closing:
made it around 13:40, enough time to go enjoy some snow
charging in the snow
2 hours to go snowboarding friday
My favorite tree runs were still a bit bare, my board did get some hits
the wall was open, still a bit rocky but open
nice snow in the trees
snow got harder, vis went down
Chamoix still had a big rock jump
after the rock, things were nice
I rode until 16:00, last chair, went to check out the main lodge:
I had a bad surprise trying to get into Sun Maedows parking lot, which was closed, and the snow was wet enough that my Tesla M+S tires were not able to get enough traction to get back up:
good things I had chains, first time I got to use them
Saturday, almost 2ft
Saturday opened late as expected, Chair 6 opened at 11:10 when the blizzard wind had died down enough:
plenty of nice fresh snow
I used my car's defrost mode to limit snow accumulation on it
lovely snow
ran until 16:20, it was wet, got lots of ice on my facemask
got some help to get my car out and free up the charger
Sunday, bluebird
Cornice opened on tim (09:00), reasonable line of people wanting freshies
Snow was pretty packed
little bit of a line, but not terrible
the ridge was opened
not bad coverage
but still rocky in places
At some point I made a mistake, ended up here, and it was too much of a jump on snow that was too packed:
oops, I had to hike back up, that was a lot of effort
once the wall opened, pretty long line to drop:
only a short path down
I had a good time and ended around 14:00 as I wanted to make expensive mistake in trees with thin coverage:
nice drive home
