On Saturday I headed to Crystal again. They have gotten a lot of snow since last weekend and the base area really showed it. I could ski all the way to the bottom without much trouble. I didn’t need the rock skis today!
The day started with a great run off of High Campbell and then I spent much of the rest of the time exploring the Green Valley lift. I’ve skied at Crystal more than any other resort and still more than half of my runs were runs that I had never done before. It was a lot of fun exploring.
I did whip out the GoPro for a few runs, but I didn’t leave it on my helmet the whole time. The assumption seems to be that if you have a camera on your head, you think you’re awesome. I could spend all day telling you why I’m not awesome, but still, I’d rather let people laugh in silence at my skiing. (I regularly hear jests shouted from chairlifts to people who fall wearing a GoPro.) Anyway, I got some decent video of one run and have posted it to YouTube so you can watch. It occurred to me that much of the video is going to look extremely similar so I probably won’t post a ton of it going forward. I have a lot of fun with the camera though!
Steven Pass was probably the place to ski today though. They got 2 feet of snow on Thursday night and 4 feet last night for a total of 69” at the base. They had to spend quite a lot of time digging some of the lift chairs out of the snow! Apparently the lines were incredibly long though so I wasn’t too disappointed. A good chunk of the Crystal crowd eats lunch between 11:30 and 1 and during that time, I repeatedly skied right onto the lift.
The day ended slightly early for me. I took a break around 1:30 and then rode the gondola back up to get a few more runs in. About three turns into my first run, I got cramps in both thighs. Thankfully one lightened up but my right leg was pretty rough. I made it the 2500 vertical feet back down to the base and headed for the car. It was a good day and there’s no reason to push it.