Big Fluffy Dump!

Winter has finally arrived around Tahoe! We're being visited by an artic low that's bringing multiple "pulses". The first big pulse dropped over two feet up in the mountains (a bit more than predicted) and a few inches down here. I lucked in to having yesterday (Thursday) morning off and I hooked up with Jon Tay, Dick Benoit, Eric Martin and Jeff Dean. Then we met John Swanson (ER Doc) and Janet (ER nurse) up at the parking lot. There were more coming in their group so we decided to try to meet up later. There was a nice skin track to the top of Hourglass and the weather was COLD but gorgeous.


We were "Jonesing" to go once we got up top, even more so watching a boarder drop in. So we stripped skins and got read to go.

One at a time, we dropped in to the fluff.





Of course we should have done it before our FIRST run, but we did dig a pit and check out the snow before our second run. We found a surprisingly solid snowpack requiring approximately 20 taps (elbow slaps) before breaking. And it broke unevenly w/o a real layer. We also did a "three sided rutschblock" which took two jumps with full weight to get it to go, and then it went at the new/old snow (almost ground) interface with an uneven "crumbling".


After three runs in Hourglass, we met up with John and Janet again so Jon and I headed out to the top of Proletariat with them for our final run. Janet and Jon both had skins pop off (it was so cold the glue wasn't sticking well for all of us). The coverage was excellent, but you could still hit the rock band just below the top of the bowl. John dropped in first and warned me about the rocks, so I just "straight lined" over them and barely got a scratch! (at least not there)



There were some rocks at the bottom that caught the guys. Janet checked her bottoms to see what all the fuss was about.

All in all a great morning!