March 2, 2003
Lifts/Runs
Lifts Open: 10/10
Runs open: 103/107
Snowfall
24 Hour: 3cm (1in)
48 Hour: 4cm (1.5in)
7 Day: 4cm (1.5in)
Year to date: 497cm (191in)
Snow Pack: 240cm (96in)
Text and photos by Gerry George
The skies were ominous and gray this Sunday morning as I peered out the window for the first time. It almost looked like rain was just itching to drop from the sky. Wanting to get out on the carving board to rip up the corduroy, I left the house early and hoped that the weather would hold off for at least a few hours.
 The carving session went really well. The hill seemed really quite so you could ski onto the lift and then take up the entire mountain turning. Carving days just don’t cut it if there are a lot of people as you tend to make full 180 degree turns almost all the way down the mountain and people straight lining don’t expect to have someone on a snowboard come rocketing across the hillside in front of them. You have to keep a watchful eye at all times.
Cruised the whole mountain and even stuck the race board though the crud in Timber bowl as it looked too nice to pass up. As usual, the top of Timber was enshroud in fog and as I descended the mountain, the fog followed. By the bottom it was just puking out big fluffy flakes.
Now this is going to sound crazy but with the snow falling so hard I split so that I could get a cross country ski in before the trails became too soft with fresh snow. No such luck though for me though. The snow continued to dump and by the time I got back to the mountain the trails were covered with at least 3 cm of nice, agonizingly slow powder. was a workout to say the least.
The snow continues to fall as I write into the evening. Forecast is for flurries and intermittent snow and sun for the rest of the week with temperatures staying a bit on the negative side.
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