Mid-Day Blue Room

Here's a quick video clip from Blue Room:

When the Challenger Lift shut down for maintenance, we headed back to the base area.  It was almost lunchtime but Tom and Lori were still at Dakota.  With some time before we were to meet them, we headed up Ramcharger to check out the Andesite glades.  We started with Wounded Knee as this is a nice long glade.  It was quite good but it had been skied quite a bit in the morning.

So, I figured Blue Room may have been neglected as this run is typically less skied than the other glades.  I was right.  For the next three runs we ravaged this glade with serious intensity. It was deep and much less skied.  The lower half where it really opens up had whole swaths that were completely untouched.  It was so good we did it again and again until we thought Tom and Lori would have made it back from the far side of the mountain. And, by this point at about 12:45pm, we were quite hungry too.

The photo below is fuzzy but gives you an idea of the depth of the snow: