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.ย 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.ย 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.ย That is, not much changed until today when temps went up slightlyย and we got some of that good old “PNW Hot Pow!” ย 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 groomersย 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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