Actually - you’re correct - Upper Airglow was the worst - blindingly bad in the afternoon with the sun reflecting off the ice.
as the wind blew away the last of the snow there.
Black He was not bad.
Damn ! I missed Quantum Leap - always liked that one.
Did you ski Celestial ?
Yes, I skied Celestial soon after the Aurora chair opened.. it was a LOT of very deep snow that was semi wind affected in that it was heavier/more compacted than I expected for being in the trees and compared to other trees I went in after it. That’s where I had a hard time with sinking into untracked areas well above my knees and having to like shuffle my feet to get to any track to get going again lol. My 92 width skis were just not enough in there by far at least at the somewhat slower speed I ski trees at apparently. To be fair, that snow was slowing me down to begin with, the other women in my group didn’t have the weight of the men to drive through faster. Yeah, I’ll go with that! Haha Today made me want to get a wider ski for these sorts of days.. but they are so infrequent here. I almost never have had a time where I truly felt my skis weren’t enough to give me the float I needed in the fresh snow I was skiing..
I was talked into going on Quantum since I hadn’t skied it yet this season and last weekend it looked like a total loss for the season. It was in much better shape than I’d thought it might be. A little bit of scratchy in the troughs, but for a lot of it you could stay on the fluffy tops of the bumps and it was very enjoyable. Same deal on Black Hole, skier’s left was nice and the run out was tracked out enough by that time for me to really enjoy it otherwise I probably would have struggled with how flat and heavy it may have been. Saw a lot of people tumbling in that snow early on from the lift our first ride up.
