Opening of ski season in Alberta

Hey everyone, )

Couldn't wait any longer to hit a slope on my new pair of Crossfires.
Last weekend went to Jasper and was a bit disappointed.

As they said 90cm at the top, don't know where they put that snow???
Grass was showing off.....

They did pretty good job grooming some of the runs, but having not enough snow, there were lots of little rocks all over.....

My spankin new Crossfires didn't like it, got scratched pretty badly after 1.5 days of skiing...........Sunday afternoon just gave up.
:(

Would like to try Powder King, announcing up to 150cm.
Did anybody try last weekend??? :?:

I'm headed off to Jasper this Friday. I will post my findings once I get back on Monday.

I will take my rock skis so I won't care too much about the snow cover. The fresh air will be great.

I'll also get a Christmas tree on the way home. It's a an annual event ski and murder a tree from a road right of way. It makes it safer for wildlife and the highways will just mulch them if I don't get one first.

My rock skis an old pair of VR17's with an old Super Loop tele-binding. The whole rig cost about $60 and is worth a lot less. The bases are still fair though and no edges pulled out - yet.

Thanks Rocket for the report.

See my post on this weekend.