Early season skiing comes with a price. Goggles are essential when the snow guns are blasting during those important windows of opportunity, creating great white snow whales on trails attracting well-rounded snow sliders.
The terrain is limited, but diehards don’t seem to mind sharing with other like-minded members of Snow Nation. Brown ground is part of the landscape. Conditions aren’t always prime.
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