It’s Setting Up…

Posted by Big Al on January 14, 2010 under The Weekly Deal | Be the First to Comment

…to be a huge couple weeks! A patroller told me that the mid-term forecast is 7 feet in the next 10 days so stay tuned. We just started getting snow again and there have been some awesome cream cheese pow days – those boot-deep ones with dense, fast snow. Today was actually a bit deeper than that and it felt like there was nobody on the hill. KT and Headwall got going early, and long Tower 16 laps became a nice way to milk some more time out of our legs.

Here’s another reason why Squaw is one of the best mountains on the continent – on storm days when ‘all you have’ is KT you’re skiing almost 2,000′ of vert and about 200-degrees of exposure every 20 minutes. Some locals call it the ‘Mothership’ while others simply think of it as the greatest non-hiking workout of all California chairs. Then there’s its little sis:

Olympic Lady is an infrequently-run chair that’s probably tied for the best ratio of vertical feet to awesome terrain; the other one would be Cornice II. What’s so striking about this little chair, and CII, is that they drop you off on a precipice. From the top terminal of both lifts you can immediately air a massive cliff (or just about tap the hucker’s helmet while sitting on the chair). The fact that these lifts are spinning mid-week shows a lot of good effort from Ski Corp so Cheers to them!