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Women of Winter Backcountry Clinic

By Christina on Posted in Events and Activities, News

Crystal Mountain and Evo have teamed up yet again to bring you a trip into the backcountry with an emphasis on avalanche education.  This is an opportunities for women to get out of the ski resort, learn about snowpack, and meet up with other ladies who are looking to push the boundaries. We don’t ask that you… Continue Reading

February 18th Tour of Crystal

By Christina on Posted in Avalanche Hazard, Closures, Conditions, Employment, Events and Activities, Place Names, Safety Patrol/Speed Control

I’m really excited about all the feedback from the last blog post about skiing with a patroller and learning the ins-and-outs of Crystal.  Kim and I will go through all the input and come up with a way to go over all your questions on Saturday February 18th.  We’ll meet by the Easy Searcher on the South side… Continue Reading

Tour of Crystal through Patrol Eyes

By Christina on Posted in Avalanche Hazard, Closures, Conditions, Employment, News, Place Names, Safety Patrol/Speed Control

Who here would be interested in taking under an hour to ski with a patroller and go through some of the ins-and-outs of Crystal?  We would like to offer a chance to ski with a patroller to our locals (you), in hopes to answer any questions you may have, share avalanche conditions, and ski some secrete… Continue Reading

We’re so lucky

By Christina on Posted in Events and Activities, Personal

Patrollers might be seen as a “clique” who consume a large table at the Elk on payday Friday but the truth is we’re just a very tight group.  We work together, spend our days off skiing together, count on each other in risky situations, rely on one another for safety during avalanche routes, and some patrollers even end up engaged and married to… Continue Reading

New Clutch

By Christina on Posted in Events and Activities, News, Personal

When my old Subaru stopped accelerating because it would take a mile for the clutch to engage I would wait to enter any main road til I couldn’t see any oncoming cars before easing my way out and waiting for engagement for a few minutes.  When I got a new clutch I felt like I was driving a sport’s car… Continue Reading

New Summit House Art Work

By Christina on Posted in News, Personal

A little tooting of our own horn here; one of our outstanding patrollers is also an artist.  You may have seen his work on the Crystal Mountain Facebook page, or hanging in the Summit House, or adorning the walls of Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River but you should defiantly check it out here;  chrismorinphotography.com All… Continue Reading

Northwest Snow and Avalanche Summit Workshop

By Christina on Posted in Avalanche Hazard, Events and Activities, News, Uncategorized

Yesterday I attended the NSAS (Northwest Snow and Avalanche Summit) workshop in Seattle with 6 other Crystal Mountain Ski Patrollers and about 200 other interested people.  There were some amazing speakers who gave informative lectures on their specific fields in avalanche research with incredible amounts of data an field work to back up their findings…. Continue Reading

Get Your Jib Park On

By Christina on Posted in Closures, Terrain Park & 1/2-Pipe

 A dear sweet goodbye to the old Mr. Magoo run, and welcome to a younger more active model- the Jib Park.  For all of you that loved skiing the rolling run of Magoo things have changed; skis are fatter, clothes are brighter (almost back to 80′s neon’s), and there are features all over Magoo.  On snowy days… Continue Reading

First Tracks

By Christina on Posted in Safety Patrol/Speed Control

The First Tracks breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings at the Summit House is breathtaking. My favorite part- other than the Gouda quiche and peppered bacon, is how quiet everything is on the mountain in the morning. Even if you are not a skier it is one of the best breakfasts around and you can… Continue Reading

Jack’s Place

By Christina on Posted in Safety Patrol/Speed Control

One day the current Summit house may be a beautiful hotel overlooking Mount Rainier where you can wake up to the sunrising over the Cascades.  But until then, just one patroller a night gets the amazing view from Mountain Top with their morning coffee.  Every night of the season (yes I was up there on… Continue Reading

Hullo. I’m a Crystal Mountain Traverser

By Christina on Posted in Avalanche Hazard

My name is Christina and sometimes I like to traverse.  I start cursing when I’m skiing a waist deep line off the Throne in flat light and double eject onto a traverse track put in by people just skiing the lower field.  But on the other hand, I thank our traversers, when I’m jonesing to… Continue Reading

Chair 6

By Christina on Posted in Place Names

High Campbell is my favorite chair- really that I’ve ever ridden.  I mean, how many other lifts take you to so much terrain?  From 6 you can, hike to controlled areas and enter a door-way to endless touring.  Powder Bowl, the Throne, and Double Oughts are some of the best lift service steeps around.  The… Continue Reading

Early Season

By Christina on Posted in Conditions

 I make a lot of runs every year; actually, I make a lot of runs every day.  So, when one particular run stands out in my mind for months to follow sometimes even years it is worth something.  It is that run you tell your friends about, that run you can go back to and feels the joy from… Continue Reading