Great stuff out there today on Mansfield.
The upslope machine brought 6" to the mountain throughout the day and while cold powder, it had some density to it. A lot of small flakes and even graupel at times.
Patrol was dropping ropes throughout the day. The base from the November snow set-up perfectly and despite nothing exciting for snow depths, it skied really good.
Someone else caught a rare photo of myself heading down to set-up for a photo from below. The natural snow pitch of the Upper National Headwall is one long sustained ramp and it was so fun to just crush it in huge GS turns on an all-natural snow base.
We completely missed the big storm but man was this some good skiing. Upslope "bread and butter" snow came through.