Some sun in sun peaks

Last night we had pizza for dinner and headed out to "bottoms" bar for a few drinks. They have a bell at the bar there and whenever someone rings it they have to buy everyone sitting at the bar a shot. Neri and i were just having a quiet drink when this guy decided to ring it meaning that we had a shot of jager in front of us, free of charge.

It was a saturday night and the village was starting to fill up with more people meaning it was pretty rowdy at the bar.

The weather has also warmed up a little meaning more people are out and about in the village.

Woke up a little late this morning, looked out the window and there was some sunny skies, something we hadn't seen here yet.

It was nice to be able to see the whole mountain, although at times the clouds came right over again making it hard to see.
We made our way up to the "West bowl" tbar for the first time (all the other days visibility was too poor up there) only to have the tbar break down on us on the first run. We waited a while for them to fix it but eventually gave up and headed back to Crystal bowl, which surprisingly still had fresh snow in sections.

We did eventually get back up there but by then the visibility was terrible. We were better off on the lower half of the mountain or in the trees.

The rest of the day was spent cruising around the mountain... we did a run called "5 mile" a few times which as the name suggests is a 5 mile long groomed run. Heaps of fun cruising down this massive run at full speed.

We did a few of the black runs over the back side of Crystal bowl which was still deep powder in sections. I got caught up to my waist and had to hike out from the trees which was a good workout.

Came in around 3pm, had a mocha in the cafe and watched the sun set over the mountains.

In the hotel now and about to head out again for dinner... really missing home cooked meals but unfortunately we won't have a kitchen until we get to Mammoth in January.

-J