I figured that the car might make it to kirkwood in one shot, but it wasn't too clear if it would and it would be pretty miserable if I started running short and had to drive back or ended up getting stuck, so I stopped at the Manteca supercharger for just 15mn, which gave me an extra 10% of battery and I arrived with 20% left, so in the end it wasn't needed:
my car predicted it would arrive with 14% left, that was very close, I would have had 10% left if I hadn't stopped to recharge
Carson Spur is looking interesting now, it closes almost as soon as snow starts falling
Got a nicely priced unit from Pyramid Peak properties and let the car charge slowly over the next 3 days
it was snowing nicely soon after I arrived
opening the door was interesting
some other doors couldn't be open at all :)
chair6 being readied, finally...
nice warning, I'd rather that they tell us that than stay closed because of limited medical help being available
the runs I was able to do from chair6 didn't suck
more snow falling throughout the day
I got to meet Ricky, the head of ski patrol of nicely gave me a tour and showed me the challenges they deal with
eventually the wall opened and that was quite good, I lapped it for the rest of the day :)
nice snow accumulation of the last days
my car was all nice and clean and came out when the sun did :)
obligatory kirkwood sign picture
drove to harrah's parking and joined Ovidiu in the long friday morning gondola line
I noticed that, nice tires on that stretcher
we walked to the first backcountry gate as the lifts weren't running yet (!)
big easy was open, so we took it to the fire break gate to run palisades
nice runs to burnt forest (2000ft vertical), the rest was more crappy snow
nice lenticular cloud that came from the pretty heavy wind