This season, a nice little storm with cold temps and some moisture made its way to the mountains here on Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. About 15" fell between the two days, so monday was set up to be perfect. What better way to celebrate Memorial Day than to ski powder? Well, visiting my grandparents' graves would have been better, but I'm sure they were happy in heaven to see me ski. The only problem with days like this is the crowd of season passholders that always shows up too. There are 100 or so chargers that show, and 900 gapers that seem to make life on those days more challenging. All of the passholders plus a late opening (10am) and no tram equaled a massive line on Peruvian, all the way up to the cat from the bypass road. It was definitely worth it though. I got in about 6 runs before 1pm when I had to make my way back to work (yes, I had to work Memorial Day). This day got my spirits up, and motivated me to ski as much as I could before the end of the season, which will be July 4th weekend. Sweet.
Welcome to GaperStock 2011! Bring your Rossignol S7's and Colombia jacket, and let's par-tay!
Sorry Sam, your head is in gapershot #2
"Alright, who's throwing snowballs? That's not funny. I say we find that guy and shove his face in the snow. He'll probably think its funny, so we should do it."
"Those are Deer Valley gloves, did you work there or just buy them?"
"Well, I used to work at Deer Valley when I lived in New York. I would fly out every weekend to work a day, then have a day to ski on my own, then I'd fly back to New York. It was great."
