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Reid Pitman

"Go average, go often". Crystal Mountain local and gear nerd. Mostly a splitboarder that skis from time to time.

Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: Spring is Finally Here.

Spring is here and  one thing for sure, variability. Its been everything from frigid cold to tshirt weather. We had it all from days of blower pow on crust, pow under crust, โ€œloud powโ€,pow around chunder, bottomless pow with 20โ€ฒ viability and everyoneโ€™s favorite hot pow! Many days end completely different from how they started so it paid to be [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | April 11, 2018
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Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: All Time Bluebird Powder

With overnight snows this last week itโ€™s been all time up here at Crystal Mountain! Cold temps have kept the snow from turning into our typical โ€œcascade concreteโ€. With a few sunny days mixed in, itโ€™s about as good as you can imagine. Over the weekend there was an awesome turn out for the IFSA Juninor Freeride Comp โ€“ those [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | March 7, 2018
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Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: PNW Powder

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Some cold weather Monday became a sneaker powder day on Tuesday. Thank the maker cause we needed it! Friends Cori, Theresa and Caitlin were all meeting up so we rode the storm for a few hours hitting Frontside and Campbell Basin. I donโ€™t thing Iโ€™d ever had so much fun on Lucky Shot as that first run feeling the groomed [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | February 2, 2018
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Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: Deep Days Return!

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Crystal Mountain has been getting a little of everything this week from sunny days to rain to stormy powder days. After some crazy high winds and big crowds, mid week brought the cold precip finally!  Some fun chalky conditions with decent powder if you could find it but still far below whats considered โ€œnormalโ€. So all fingers were crossed for [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | January 25, 2018
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Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: The Pow Before the Storm

Its been interesting here at Crystal mountain the last week. We had it all from rain to freezing bluebird days but Olโ€™ Mother Nature should be coming through tomorrow! After several days of dust on crust, the warmer temps and bit of wet snow are softening up the slopes.  Still some โ€œEarly season conditionsโ€ out there that hopefully will on [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | January 11, 2018
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Crystal Mountain, WA. Conditions Report: Winter is Here! Finally.

Winter is finally here! Opening week was EXCELLENT. Pow for days, especially for those who are light on their feet. Even creeks were filled in.     Then the rains came. Then the high pressure. At first we were kinda happy to be skiing groomers in t-shirts, and then we remembered that it was DECEMBER and high time for a [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | December 24, 2017
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โ€œQuick nโ€™ Dirtyโ€ Crystal Mountain, WA. Conditions Report: Wax Your Powder Skis!

Crystal mountain, trees, skiing, powder, tree skiing

[iframe id=โ€https://www.youtube.com/embed/w1YWOhObXyoโ€]     Well after some good days of recycled powder and hard charging resort laps the โ€œwinter storm advisoryโ€ finally happened! Not the huge dumps that hit further north, Tahoe and Jackson. But enough to stop me from thinking of mountain bikes, sunny days at the crag and what wearing shorts must be like. Instead had a wax [โ€ฆ]

Reid Pitman | March 8, 2017
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Crystal Mountain, WA. Conditions Report: Deep Powder Days Return

  Mother nature and old man winter must have mended their problems and kicked off another awesome storm cycle. Some down time of warm and wet days with squishy schmoo, cold groomers and dust on crust was fun to build some skill or finally take a rest day. So last Thrusday when it started to snow again it was a [โ€ฆ]

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Reid Pitman | February 25, 2017
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