Monday morning and Mali Noyes just gave the spring skiing narrative the protagonist it deserves. Her Chuting Gallery web series — 93 of the gnarliest lines in Utah's Wasatch, 47 days, one woman with an unreasonable amount of fitness and conviction — drops its latest episode today, and it's the kind of project that reminds you what this season is actually for. Not closing days. Not nostalgia. Forward movement through terrain that most people point at from the road. Speaking of forward movement: A-Basin extended through May 10 on the back of that 14-inch dump and has another 5 inches in the three-day forecast, so Colorado refuses to quit. Banff Sunshine is running a May the 4th celebration with lightsabers and costumes and legitimately good spring coverage, because apparently the Force is strong with late-season Alberta. Scandinavia picked up 27 centimeters in the last week with 5 more on the way under temps still below freezing. And the Alaska backcountry community is mourning Dylan Lenzie, a respected heli-ski guide and avalanche educator killed in an avalanche in the Chugach — a loss that cuts deep in a tight community. The season is narrowing. The people still in it are not messing around.