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Technically we’ve surpassed the official Winter season and have entered into Spring. Usually by late March we get hit with some epic warm sunny days perfect for slushy park sessions. Pretty much all last week it dumped up in the mountains–cold and snowy. It even dumped on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night (hipsters be trippin!).

The weekend opened with 12″ of new at Alpental on Saturday. Complete with an uphill skier race snaking the mountain from bottom to top back down Nash, through Snake Dance and back up to Piss Pass. All through thigh deep pow too. Pretty hardcore. Somehow i avoided colliding with one of these doods who were hiking right up the Fan.

The race resulted in the closure of Snake Dance almost all day, and the closure of the backcountry all day. Here we were, end of the season, not riding slushy park but riding thigh deep pow at Alpental (the best riding in Washington State) yet we couldn’t go in the BC but all these other manic ski doods could?! F that. F you.

Sunday was just as crowded with 9 more inches of even colder snow. Ride more pow? Sure why not. It seemed weird though…like something was off to be riding this much pow this time of year. The A-man made a rare Sunday appearance, Clem was nowhere to be found, Petersen rode two days in a row, Otter/Kopafeel both stayed home and i didn’t duck a rope once.

Ski Patrol finally legally opened BC around 1. They decided it would be a great idea to start posting a volunteer patroller at the gate. They actually asked to see my pass. Which i actually did have on my person. So i actually was able to get in while everyone else just went low around the patroller and got in anyways.

Needless to say, everything worked out. Everyone got tons of turns, snowballs were thrown, skiers were heckled, beer was drank and face shot were had.

Here are a few pics from last weekend.

Here’s a video of the sequence pic above. S.Petersen is filmer.

The A-man dropped a bomb post on his site recapping the weekend. Check it.

Partied it up pretty good on Saturday night (thanks for all the shots guys). Woke up Sunday to more snow in Seattle and a slight headache. Being as i got skunked the day before at Westport with Ki, i was motivated to do something active. Check out what Ki and I showed up to at Westport on Saturday.

Called my peeps Sunday morning and managed to round up Otter and Snowden–both down for a late trip to Crystal.

Left Seattle about 11. Snow on the road the whole way there…and towards Greenwater there was a ton of snow on the road. Kooks in the ditch everywhere, waist high snow banks, and good foot caked on the trees. It looked like it was gonna be sick up at Crystal. We arrived at 1pm to a blizzard. Forest Queen was all that was open…snow was sick though. Hit a bunch of jumps, slashed pow, hosed a few kids. We bailed about 4.

On the ride home ALL the snow on the road, trees, snowbanks were completely melted. Looks like the temp went up about 10 degrees in a couple hours.

Yay winter!