Yesterday was the day The Department of Transportation forgot about Crabbe Mountain Road. When we arrived at the bottom of the road at 7:45am Monday morning, there was a massive snowbank at the bottom of it and it hadn't been touched by a snowplow all night. Jay waded up Crabbe Mountain Road through waist deep snow to get the tractor from the garage and I did the same and made my way up the road to the office to post an update to say "stay tuned, Crabbe Mountain Road is currently impassable at the moment, opening soon". Needless to say, Jay cleared a 'one car width path' down the road and by 10am the lift was turning. Skiers and riders who ventured to the mountain yesterday were rewarded with 42cm of new snow, the winds that came with this storm were in our favour and we opened with a wopping trail count of 18 trails. Today we are sitting at 14 trails. The Glades has been left ungroomed, everything else is packed powder groomed corduroy. Lower Elgee's and Lower Norm's can be accessed by using the Upper Tippy Connector. Below is a video from yesterday. We've dubbed it "Snowmageddon". Lower Norm's and the Glades were awesome. We all took turns with the video camera. It's a tuff job, but someones got to do it! - SB
PS. Jay called the local DOT office a few times. The plow finally plowed Crabbe Mountain Road at 4pm. Boo.
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