Bluebird and Buried
The Santa Rosa buried everything.
The day began clear as a bell. Patrol continued with their bombing of the Plateau. Those guys were at it early. They did at least one route as we were strolling over to breakfast at 7:30, in shorts today. The plateau was ready to open right at 9am. That was about it though. Things are buried deep.
The road to Santiago, well as of right now it is still closed. We hear that an avalanche buried one of the avalanche road tunnels under 60 feet of debris. Yeah, 6 stories of snow. There is a hotel of debris sitting on the road. The road crew couldn't find the ends of the tunnel.
The Roca Jack, according to some of the staff, was ripped out by a slide. That style lift is designed for those conditions, but they say it may be a couple of days before it's up and running. I hope the new lift, Caracara is ok.
The Condor, it was buried, but the staff got it going before lunch. The lifty has to walk down to his lift house, which is about 5 feet below the snow level. That was nice as it opened up considerably more terrain.
The good news about everything be buried, is that there is tons of snow and very few guests here to ski it. The snow is not, however like 5 feet of fresh at say, Alta. It is very dense due to all the wind. I have described it before as cruisy, some might say it's buttery (Davenport). You seem to stay on the top 6 inches of the snow. The crazy thing is that although you only feel you are in 6 inches of smooth, cruisy, buttery, fast, and delicious pow; you know you are skiing over a 6 foot rock section that we were hitting before the storm.
The helicopters have been very busy today, flying guests in from the airport. It's the only way in or out. Tim changed his flight home to Tuesday. Who knows if they will clear the road from this storm before the next one hits. It's getting cloudy again!
fts baby!!!
The day began clear as a bell. Patrol continued with their bombing of the Plateau. Those guys were at it early. They did at least one route as we were strolling over to breakfast at 7:30, in shorts today. The plateau was ready to open right at 9am. That was about it though. Things are buried deep.
The road to Santiago, well as of right now it is still closed. We hear that an avalanche buried one of the avalanche road tunnels under 60 feet of debris. Yeah, 6 stories of snow. There is a hotel of debris sitting on the road. The road crew couldn't find the ends of the tunnel.
The Roca Jack, according to some of the staff, was ripped out by a slide. That style lift is designed for those conditions, but they say it may be a couple of days before it's up and running. I hope the new lift, Caracara is ok.
The Condor, it was buried, but the staff got it going before lunch. The lifty has to walk down to his lift house, which is about 5 feet below the snow level. That was nice as it opened up considerably more terrain.
The good news about everything be buried, is that there is tons of snow and very few guests here to ski it. The snow is not, however like 5 feet of fresh at say, Alta. It is very dense due to all the wind. I have described it before as cruisy, some might say it's buttery (Davenport). You seem to stay on the top 6 inches of the snow. The crazy thing is that although you only feel you are in 6 inches of smooth, cruisy, buttery, fast, and delicious pow; you know you are skiing over a 6 foot rock section that we were hitting before the storm.
The helicopters have been very busy today, flying guests in from the airport. It's the only way in or out. Tim changed his flight home to Tuesday. Who knows if they will clear the road from this storm before the next one hits. It's getting cloudy again!
fts baby!!!
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