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, “loud pow”,pow around chunder, bottomless pow with 20′ viability and everyone’s favorite hot pow! Many days end completely different from how they started so it paid to be […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | April 11, 2018 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: All Time Bluebird Powder With overnight snows this last week it’s been all time up here at Crystal Mountain! Cold temps have kept the snow from turning into our typical “cascade concrete”. With a few sunny days mixed in, it’s about as good as you can imagine. Over the weekend there was an awesome turn out for the IFSA Juninor Freeride Comp – those […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | March 7, 2018 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: PNW Powder 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 don’t thing I’d ever had so much fun on Lucky Shot as that first run feeling the groomed […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | February 2, 2018 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: Deep Days Return! 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 “normal”. So all fingers were crossed for […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | January 25, 2018 0 Comments
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 Ol’ 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 “Early season conditions” out there that hopefully will on […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | January 11, 2018 0 Comments
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 […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | December 24, 2017 0 Comments
“Quick n’ Dirty” Crystal Mountain, WA. Conditions Report: Wax Your Powder Skis! [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/w1YWOhObXyo”] Well after some good days of recycled powder and hard charging resort laps the “winter storm advisory” 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 […] Reid Pitman | March 8, 2017 0 Comments
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 […] Backcountry Reid Pitman | February 25, 2017 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: Steep and Deep Winter is back with a vengeance in the PNW! While Seattle and most schools are shut down due to snow, its going off in the mountains. While some other areas had to shut down for the storms the bullwheels turned at Crystal, everyone and their cousin came out to shred. But serious: Traction tires and chains people. Lots of people […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | February 9, 2017 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: Powder Refresher Last week brought ripping good conditions wall to wall at the resort, with a little of everything from powder pockets to fast groomed steeps. The coverage along the ridges where cold temps and high winds had scoured away all the snow are finally covered. A 2 day warming event manifested in some rain and fun slush skiing, an more importantly […] Industry News Reid Pitman | January 27, 2017 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: Sneaker Powder Day While not what was predicted the snow storms did deliver a nice refresher to the mountain after a windy, cold and clear week. The low volume of skier and riders meant there was plenty of good pockets after the weekend. Although it seems California and Colorado got the brunt of it, our good ol’ PNW snow only needs to […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | January 12, 2017 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: Chalky cold, Storms, Bluebird Crystal Mountain got a little refresh for Christmas followed by some cold, clear temps. Pockets of chalky recirculating powder kept the off piste pretty dang fun, which was a gift in its own right. The previous storm came in windy and kept the frontside refilling to the point I did the same run turn for turn 14 times. It was […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | December 29, 2016 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: Cold Groomers then Back to “Normal” With little new snow over the week and persistent cold temps, not much changed here at Crystal Mountain. That is, not much changed until today when temps went up slightly and we got some of that good old “PNW Hot Pow!” Crystal got the Sasquatch jib park features put into the Mr. Magoo run, but I’d skied my fill of that […] Reid Pitman | December 20, 2016 0 Comments
Crystal Moutain, WA Conditions Report: The Powder Days Just Won’t Stop A super fun week of rallying perfect cold groomers and hitting stashes of protected deep powder through the trees. My legs just aren’t getting a break! With Chair 6 running and Northway back open there was no shortage of places to go for long steep runs of recirculated light snow. Snow sharks are still lurking out there as the light […] Backcountry Reid Pitman | December 13, 2016 0 Comments
Crystal Mountain, WA Conditions Report: “Choker Blower” Powder Daze Report from Monday, December 5th, 2016 Crystal had a steady start this season from an average opening snow depth with plenty of “early season conditions” to quite possibly the best snow I’ve ridden in my 9 years here! An overnight dump of 19″ of right side up pow fell Saturday night and made for all time storm riding Sunday for […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | December 8, 2016 0 Comments
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