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The day got off to a somewhat slow start since we were all fairly worked from the day before at Alpine, so there was some stretching, laptopping, and a trip to the Old Post Office before Jay and I managed to get our stuff together and put in a half day at Homewood. The weather was a balmy 45 degrees (otherwise known as hot), but there was still some fresh powder to be found in the trees, and in general everything was pretty soft.

Jay put in some time on the Quad chair, and I gave my likely useless suggestions on a few runs, and played around in the trees before trying to do a lap down Quail Face. I could have sworn it was open, but once I did the traverse the ropes and signs assured me that it most certainly was not. By the time I got back over to the other side, it was pretty much time to head back, which was just as well since my legs might not have been having much more.

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Since I had just gotten back from Alaska, and there wasn’t much promise of snow, and there were things to be done in the city, Reagan and I didn’t head up to the house until Saturday. The forecast changed a bit, and it did snow, so we didn’t really even get in that early, and ended up driving in the dark, but it was still a good relaxed day. Unfortunately the snow sort of passed us by (though they got 2 feet just north of us), the following day proved to be similar, and we ended up just doing a half day at Homewood. We mostly stuck to the quad and blue runs, though Reagan did dip into the trees a few times, her first time ever. After we determined that all was going well, we did a run down White Lightning, though the snow really wasn’t good enough to justify it. As you can see in the video, it was soft enough to try and jump off of smaller stuff, but you can also see that due to melting, exposed rocks at the top made it nearly impossible to stick the landing.

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The storm was really kicking, and not much was spinning at Alpine (Roundhouse) and Squaw (Red Dog), so Jimmy, Andy and I headed over to the old favorite, Homewood. It was absolutely puking snow (3-4″ per hour), and there was almost no one there, so it was basically fresh tracks, every run, every time. We ended up sticking to White Lightning and Dutch Treat almost exclusively – the snow in the trees was almost too good.

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