Report #46 Details

Report-ID: 46
Submitted: 01/18/99 17:31:45
Host: kenya-150.ppp.hooked.net
Date: 12/28/98
Days: 1
Resort: Alpine Meadows
Hours: Day
Equipment: Alpine
Rating: 3
Primary-Surface: Crusty
Secondary-Surfaces: Icy, Hardpack, Rocks, Thin
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Ability: Advanced
E-mail: echen@hooked.net
Loved: skiing in the trees and the adventure skiing
Hated: the back bowl with its rocks and really sh$#y conditions
Closed: none
Liftline-Waits: moderate....about 4 min avg.
Moguls: VERY hard and spaced too close for me

Details:

I've nevered skied worst conditions in my life!!!!!!  The snow on the front
wasn't that bad....packed powder and hardpack......but the back bowls were
horrible!!!!!  I can't stress enough how bad the conditions on the back were.
First to get there....I had to ski on a trail (off Scott's chair) that was
about 4-6ft. wide, but with rocks, plants, and even SOIL everwhere.  So while
trying to save your skis, you have another factor.....ice.  This wasn't
ordinary ice in which your skis have a slim chance of bitting into, but skied
off ice where all the snow was skied off and its just solid ice with very
little bite for your skis.  After you got through this HELL....you had to get
down to Lake View chair.  The slope has plats everywhere and the snow was
horrible.  Hardpack crud, I felt like I was sking on pebbles.  The back bowl
was all ice or hardpack.  No actual snow or powder.  Needless to say, we went
back to the front.
The front was ok, Packed powder.  The best snow was foung in Alpine's
Adventure ski areas and the bowl off the 6-pack lift.  The adventure area to
the far right (if you're riding up the 6-pack chair) had good packed power
snow.  We made at least 5 runs there.  For Alpine's sake I hope it snow's
soon.

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