Crystal Mountain's 3rd day of the 2009/10 campaign—Friday, Nov. 13—featured a little of this... (Tyler Ceccanti).
If the Tweetdecks are to be believed all the snow in the Pacific-Northwest is forcing Mike Douglas (@MikeDski) toward a fork in the road (will he take it?): To continue the top-secret (apart from tweets) big wave skiing project in Maui or return home to Whistler, which opened early, Saturday, and has something like 1,860 millimeters of base and counting.
"We are really hoping for one more day of wave skiing, but more and more my thoughts are turning to all that powder back in Whistler," MikeDski tweeted some 20 hours ago.
Those Pac-NWers not landlocked on Maui, meantime, have no conundrum. And they're getting it done and lowering booms at places like Whistler, Crystal Mountain and Mt. Baker, which broadcasted a "deep snow warning" when it opened last week. One Baker sampler had this say: "Totes Awes."
As for Crystal, "No one's up there," says photgrapher Ian Coble, "just the die-hards, no lines. The only people you'd encounter was on that final groomer at the bottom." (More storm doc coverage to follow... Update: Solid fall-line reporting from Baker over on ESPN Snowboarding, and tomorrow a Gunder-ithsonian photo project.)
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