Some Kiwis doing it up right yesterday on Broken Arrow.
Terrain Report? Well, there genuinely ain’t much terrain to report on. Yesterday we were limited to doing speed runs and one-legged straightlining on Siberia all morning, then skiing 3-foot-deep slush moguls in the afternoon off Broken Arrow. It was pretty cool of Squaw to run the Broken Arrow chair yesterday. They’re gonna run Broken Arrow again today.
Current conditions are pure ice that eventually gets heated enough, if in direct sunlight, to become pure slush. But, the East wind today may not even let that happen. It’s so icy today that Granite Chief is on ICE HOLD. I’ve never even heard of that before.
Why you don’t ski off piste right now. Ice bumps on Headwall Face.
Unfortunately, that nasty East wind is going to stick around for a couple days and keep things bulletproof. The rest of the week is showing highs in the 30’s and low 40’s and nothing but sun. Yep, you heard me right, no snow in that forecast. Hell, there’s no clouds in that forecast.
The Fingers, once perfect and insane this season, are now completely melted out…completely.
It hasn’t snowed since January 1st. The best case scenario right now is hopefully for something in the first week of February. Do the math humans. That’s 5 weeks of NO SNOW. I’ve gotta admit, mother nature is really going out of her way to hurt my feelings. It’s like she doesn’t even care anymore.
Broken Arrow bumps.
Other than that, I don’t know what to tell ya except that I had an ridiculously good time skiing speed runs on Siberia yesterday and that the slushy bumps on Broken Arrow are a helluva workout. This kind of weather directly confronts who we are as skiers. Sure you can slink away and claim that you have taxes to do or a car to wash and not ski at all. But the skiers will still be out there, smiles in overdrive, potentially in costume, squeezing the last drops out of their adrenaline glands, and having an absolute blast just being on skis.