One of the nicer skiing days of the year! I felt for sure we had past the chance of having a dump of fresh, dry powder but sure enough March 1 slammed us with some white gold. My route was 36 to the "T" then across Meech lake and up 40 - 2 - 21 - 28 - 3 and down the parkway to 36 to complete the loop.

No grooming on 36 but it was well skied in and a pleasure to ski. A couple of the steeps were a little washed down the center to an icy base but a few inches either side of the "ice" was fresh powder so I tried my best to "redistribute" the snow back into the middle. Found the groomer had been down (and back up) 40 (and 2) when I got there but I probably hadn't missed them by much as the track was pretty soft and hadn't really had a chance to set up. In fact that was my luck on the rest of the groomed runs I skied. I just missed the groomer but the track was still pretty soft behind them with only one or two sets of ski tracks in the fresh snow. I expect it will set up nicely by tomorrow if it didn't get rutted out by too many skiers in the afternoon.

21 was perfect for backcountry with soft snow on a firm base. Interestingly I found 28 to be a little choppy. The powder seemed to be sitting on top of a breakable crust base. Perhaps not too many people have skied out there this season. It was a little challenging but certainly skiable so... more people should go!

As I got onto 36 black to drop back down to P11 I was once again too close behind the groomer and the descent was a little soft but still nice skiing. Easy to carve a few turns on the steeps. Walking back into the lot I could hear the beeping of the groomer just up the hill where I started so 36 will be groomed again for tomorrows skiers.

Question for Ron. The NCC has a website?