Baker withdrawal.

Well I suppose comparisons would be drawn regardless of the pointlessness of doing so. It hard to fight the urge.

But the massive snowfall in town didn't really correspond to what we had hoped for. It seemed it was a case of you should have been here yesterday.

This is the first year the resort is open and they only have two lifts but plenty of vert already. Lots of newly cut runs and some of them pretty steep. The lodge is all new of course and not that big yet. They are still building the village proper down below which will eliminate the drive up we had to do today.

So we were greeted with a pretty tracked out hill actually. Still soft snow around but you could feel the hard below. The big downer for me was my feet were killing me today. Not entirely sure what it was but probably a combination of doing groomers again for the first time and the length of the runs. Whatever it was my feet were ruining any chance of enjoyment.

Vis was also a little issue but that forced up into the trees. No problem. The boys started to really get the feel for tree skiing and were actively seeking lines in there all the time. I found some nice wide open turns in the north bowl just beyond the avalanche rope, probably the best runs of the day in there for me.

It was an up and down day really. The morning pretty much sucked, a combination of withdrawal and tired, aching bodies I think. We started to get into it in the arvo though and got an appreciation for what this place is about. My last run of the day seemed to go on forever; my legs were DONE but the runs keep going on and on and on.... I decided that I really don't like steep groomers, just don't trust the edge that much, maybe it's just that I suck at them!

Nothing much else happened, it had to be an early night since we were all getting up early so I could go catsking!