It really is amazing what modern resort technology can do to restore quality skiing after 3 days of pouring rain plus another 3 before snowmaking resumed. Snow Summit has ground up the hard surface, made snow nightly for most of the week, plus some help from the 2-3 inches natural Wednesday night.

Olympic was the only open run we skied which had not received the above treatment, and its uneven boilerplate patches gave a good insight into the way the rest of the area has been restored over the past week.

Weather was warm, probably 50F by midday, but the snow had frozen overnight, so there was no slush up to the time we left for Bear Mt. at noon.

The Westridge Park was about like it usually has been in mid-December: lots of small features and just a few larger ones. The limitations on January snowmaking were evident from the very few hits on the lowest part of the run. They put in lots of rails to make up for the smowmaking restrictions on building big jumps. Ego Trip still has some large hits, but they are moved to one side of the run by design this year. The pipe on Zzyzx is not quite as big as before, and not as well maintained as the new one at Bear.