Snoe Shoe Day 2

Tuesday we got up and Will cooked us a nice breakfast before we hopped on the shuttle to the slopes. Technically we are staying “slope-side,” but the slope we are on the side of was closed, so we had to bus over to another part of the resort. The snow cannons were blowing pretty hard as we started out first descent. It was like this picture times 10.

We hit a long trail called Logslide (see Trail Map for a visual). From there we rode the lift back up and took a few other long "green" slopes that were supposed to be easy, but they were pretty crowded, and we were getting pelted with blowing snow as well as some natural snow that had started falling pretty heavily.

Rach, Suz, and Will each fell at least once, before packing it in and heading back for lunch.

After lunch we bundled up again and took the shuttle over to the Silver Creek area of the mountain. As you can see on the Trail Map, Silver Creek is off of the main basin and has a few long beginner slopes. The slopes over there were much less crowded, and while they were still making snow, the guns weren't all going at once, which helped with visibility a lot. We hit Cubb Run many times just getting the feel of the conditions before catching the extension, which in retrospect was a bad idea. Since there was so much powder, and with the extension being relatively flat to begin with, it was like we were cross country skiing. We were all huffing and puffing pretty badly by the time we made it to the Cascade lift.

From there we skiing a much harder "green" slope called Greenhorn. You see the trail ratings are all subjective and can vary from resort to resort. Greenhorn would have definitely been a "blue" or intermediate trail at Big Powderhorn, where we skied last year. We lasted for a few runs down Greenhorn before we were just too tired to go on.

On the bright side, snow kept falling all day and all night, so the base was building up and we were preparing for a much better day on Wednesday.