Hi all,

I just got back from skiing right here on our home mountain.  I had fully expected conditions to have deteriorated to the point of ice and hard snow, but that was not the case at all!  I ended up parking at the 10k lot, skiing up Sam/Kerry Trail and finished at the top on the groomed section.  From the Ellis parking lot I skied up Switchbacks until the Survey trail junction.  I skied Survey Trail and turned around at the Osha Trail junction.  Survey was delightful.  Yes, there was a place where I had to remove my skies to avoid rocks and what could have been a treacherous descent.  The beginning of Survey had seen a lot of foot traffic until the Medallion tree.  After that point it was just ski and snow shoe tracks making for really nice packed powder.  Once I passed the 10k intersection it was ski tracks only.  I turned around and had to do the nasty little climb all the way back up.  Not bad at all!  The snow was a nice packed powder providing ample grip with the fish-scales and nice speed on the downhill areas.  There were some obstacles so I tried to take the descends at a controlled pace.  When I reached the Switchback trail junction I decided to ski up Switchbacks to the upper service road.  Switchbacks has seen much more traffic than Survey but it was a really nice packed powder and no icy sections.  The descent all the way back to my car at the 10k lot was a lot of fun.  Clouds kept the sun away (YAY!) so that the snow stayed consistent the entire time I was out. It actually felt like it was getting colder up there as the day wore on.  Sometimes I just love to put on my comfortable BC Classics and cruise through the trees instead of fighting it out on my skates on the groomers.  Now I have to find a way to recover so that I can take my son snowboarding tomorrow!  I can honestly say I enjoyed today's outing better than my second day at Enchanted Forest!  Get out and enjoy it before the sun comes out.  

-Cheers,

Amy

Survey trail past the 10K trail junctuion

One of the rocky outcrops along Survey Trail.