Just in...
Had to pack it in before last lift as knees were taking a battering.
As a first day of the season that was an epic days skiing. Limited to just claybokie, dink dink, plastic and the cairnwell though Butcharts access I beleive is ready to open tomorrow.
My favourite run was the far race track (not the bunny run). Complete with hard yet not too hard snow it was perfect for nice carving turns all the way to the bottom. Blue skies/Broken cloud all day with extremely good visibility and minimal wind. They were beginning to close at 15:45.
On piste snow was hard but very good. Off piste there was stashes of powder along snow fences but it was largely very hard. A good base though for whats to come.
From sunnyside and beyond more snow is needed yet for them to open. Maybe that snow will come this week?
The staff were all very cheery and everyone I spoke to was very happy with what was on offer, If it was much busier queuing would have become tedious.
The new chair looks brilliant and the unlaoding ramp is much better than expected and drops skiers/boarders exactly where they need to be. They were putting more chairs on today and I heard by word of mouth that they are waiting for a motor to arrive for it. They have a deisel engine on it at the moment that I think is just temporary. Dont quote me on that one though.
Walking past the garages you could see a new very shiny pisten bully 600 getting prepped for work.
They were busy clearing the car park of snow when I left, looks like they are expecting more people tomorrow.
I will submit a proper report later, But I think a cuppa tea is in order. Absolutely knackered. All part of getting the legs back
