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Warpigsinfin: March 26, 2010 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 4,200 ft.

Windy, overcast, intermittent blizzard.

Depending on aspect, between 4 inches and a good foot of fresh. Amazing turns in spots, dust on crust elsewhere.

We kicked off a 6 inch soft slab in Chicken Scratch.

If it keeps snowing, it's going to get good... and a little dangerous. With all the wind we're having there'll definitely be some dangeruosly deep pockets out there. Dooking hard at 8000 feet as we skinned south to these shots. Found it windloaded and over a foot deep for the first few hundred feet... first facials in over a month... fun sluff too.

Once we got out of the steeps, the crust found its way closer to the top pretty quickly... still fun though.

Lots of wind up there and the snow is off and on. Occasional sucker holes make me worry the sun will come out and nuke our little bit of fresh.

Pray for snow in the hills and rain in town... it's Snowmobile Hill Climb weekend and they could use a good pissing upon.

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