Pico Sunday 3/18/07

andyzee · Mar 19, 2007, 2:50 PM

Date(s) Skied:3/18/2007

Resort or Ski Area: Pico

Conditions: Powder

Weather: Snow all day long

Trip Report: Skied Killington on 3/17 and had 18” of powder covered by an icy crust. For Sunday, I expected Pico to have a chance to groom the trails, and figured a few inches of snow would fall to give us a pleasant ski day. On Sunday morning I put on RSN to get the latest Killington update, they stated that 2-4” fell overnight. Hmm…. Figured they were right on track for my expectations. We get to the mountain by about 8 and first thing we see is snow and people sliding down in nice boot deep powder, sure looked like more than 2-4”. Well it is snowing so figured they must have gotten a couple more inches. Overall, Killington reports that they received 15” on top of the previous days 18”, this was sweet. Unlike Saturday’s snowfall, this was nice fluffy almost Utah type of powder. This I did not expect and what a pleasant surprise it was! We started out by heading up the Summit Quad and headed over to Upper KA. Sweet stuff, nothing but fresh powder all the way down. When we hit Middle KA, I planned on cutting across to Lower Pike because it looked so sweet going up. Couldn’t do it, KA was nothing but big mounds of fresh powder. Went back up the Summit Quad and this time took Upper Pike to Lower Pike, once again, sweet powder all the way down. We actually had a Beginner with us and Pike was just a bit too tough for her, had her do four blacks that day and she did pretty good, guess falling in soft powder helps

After that we went back up and did Upper KA cut across to Birch Glades. The Glades as expected were sweet; the only issue was that they did have some hard bumps underneath the soft stuff in some areas, but nothing too bad.

After this I talked the Beginner into trying the Outpost lift, I had never taken this before. All I knew is that there were some nice black coming off of it and if they looked too difficult, I told the Beginner that we can always take the green down to the blue

We started with Bronco, nicely bumped up trail. Went back up and tried Sidewinder, this was a mistake for the Beginner, it was just too much. Up at the top the trail was a bit steep with ice and rocks and branches sticking through. Beginner was a bit scared and had to be coaxed down. Once she got off the top it wasn’t too bad. I coached her all the way down with shouts of “turn, turn, fall”

and we made it the rest of the way. Next I tried to talk Beginner into doing Wrangler by telling her that since this would be her last run, double diamond would be like doing two diamonds at once

, didn’t work. So it was one more run down Bronco and that was our day. Conditions were great all day and just got better as the day went on. Haven’t seen anything this good since Utah, oh wait, that was only two weeks ago. Alright, other that that, haven’t seen anything this good since Burke, oh, that was only a month ago. Well you get the idea, I’ll take a crappy season such as this one any time. May not be too clear since there was so much snow, but here’s some pics:

Vee still going strong on her new Phat Luvs:

Jeff enjoying Birch Glades:

Beginner (Milagross) loving the black:

snowmonster · Mar 19, 2007, 6:03 PM

Glad to see pictures of the crew. Regards to Vee, Milagros and Jeff. Utah-like pow on Sunday? Darn! Kicking myself on the side of the head for not staying in VT for the weekend!!!

andyzee · Mar 19, 2007, 6:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowmonster

Glad to see pictures of the crew. Regards to Vee, Milagros and Jeff. Utah-like pow on Sunday? Darn! Kicking myself on the side of the head for not staying in VT for the weekend!!!

Soft fluffy mounds of snow all day long.

I'm kicking myself for not calling in sick today

**thetrailboss** · Mar 19, 2007, 8:18 PM

I think I know who "beginner" is. She enjoyed some of the stuff at Burke IIRC

Newpylong · Mar 19, 2007, 10:12 PM

Shweettttt

andyzee · Mar 19, 2007, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thetrailboss

I think I know who "beginner" is. She enjoyed some of the stuff at Burke IIRC

No secret, beginner is Milagros, Jeff's girlfriend, yes she was at Burke She's been progessing real nice. Sunday was her first day doing blacks. I first took her down Upper KA, she didn't realize it was a black, about 8/10s of the way down, we stopped and had the following conversation:

me: guess what?
Milie: what?
Me: congratulations on doing your first black diamond
Milie: No
Me: yes
Milie - just flipped and started screaming and yelling

And no, I'm not a mean monster. I saw she was doing real good and would have flipped if she saw it was a diamond before hand. She did real good on that one, did three more black runs and did fairly good on those. Today, she is very proud of herself.

SkiDork · Mar 20, 2007, 6:18 AM

here are some more pics taken that same day by MtnMan and Spanky over on KZone. The first link is the rest of MtnMans pics in webshots. The little guy in the green jacket and orange helmet is Iceman, my son.

(edited - no hotlinking from KZone. I posted a link to the thread below)

SkiDork · Mar 20, 2007, 6:19 AM

more:

edited - no hotlinking from KZone, link posted below...

Grom Iceman showing off:

andyzee · Mar 20, 2007, 6:21 AM

I cannot see!!

SkiDork · Mar 20, 2007, 6:39 AM

ahhh - not hotlinking. I'll just post a link to the KZone thread instead...

http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums...ic.php?t=16270

Mar 19, 2007, 2:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
andyzee Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Home Posts: 7,357	Pico Sunday 3/18/07 Date(s) Skied:3/18/2007 Resort or Ski Area: Pico Conditions: Powder Weather: Snow all day long Trip Report: Skied Killington on 3/17 and had 18” of powder covered by an icy crust. For Sunday, I expected Pico to have a chance to groom the trails, and figured a few inches of snow would fall to give us a pleasant ski day. On Sunday morning I put on RSN to get the latest Killington update, they stated that 2-4” fell overnight. Hmm…. Figured they were right on track for my expectations. We get to the mountain by about 8 and first thing we see is snow and people sliding down in nice boot deep powder, sure looked like more than 2-4”. Well it is snowing so figured they must have gotten a couple more inches. Overall, Killington reports that they received 15” on top of the previous days 18”, this was sweet. Unlike Saturday’s snowfall, this was nice fluffy almost Utah type of powder. This I did not expect and what a pleasant surprise it was! We started out by heading up the Summit Quad and headed over to Upper KA. Sweet stuff, nothing but fresh powder all the way down. When we hit Middle KA, I planned on cutting across to Lower Pike because it looked so sweet going up. Couldn’t do it, KA was nothing but big mounds of fresh powder. Went back up the Summit Quad and this time took Upper Pike to Lower Pike, once again, sweet powder all the way down. We actually had a Beginner with us and Pike was just a bit too tough for her, had her do four blacks that day and she did pretty good, guess falling in soft powder helps After that we went back up and did Upper KA cut across to Birch Glades. The Glades as expected were sweet; the only issue was that they did have some hard bumps underneath the soft stuff in some areas, but nothing too bad. After this I talked the Beginner into trying the Outpost lift, I had never taken this before. All I knew is that there were some nice black coming off of it and if they looked too difficult, I told the Beginner that we can always take the green down to the blue We started with Bronco, nicely bumped up trail. Went back up and tried Sidewinder, this was a mistake for the Beginner, it was just too much. Up at the top the trail was a bit steep with ice and rocks and branches sticking through. Beginner was a bit scared and had to be coaxed down. Once she got off the top it wasn’t too bad. I coached her all the way down with shouts of “turn, turn, fall” and we made it the rest of the way. Next I tried to talk Beginner into doing Wrangler by telling her that since this would be her last run, double diamond would be like doing two diamonds at once , didn’t work. So it was one more run down Bronco and that was our day. Conditions were great all day and just got better as the day went on. Haven’t seen anything this good since Utah, oh wait, that was only two weeks ago. Alright, other that that, haven’t seen anything this good since Burke, oh, that was only a month ago. Well you get the idea, I’ll take a crappy season such as this one any time. May not be too clear since there was so much snow, but here’s some pics: Vee still going strong on her new Phat Luvs: Jeff enjoying Birch Glades: Beginner (Milagross) loving the black: __________________ Hardware is out Stitches are out

Mar 19, 2007, 6:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
snowmonster Stowe - December 31, 2007 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my mind, northern New England Posts: 728	Glad to see pictures of the crew. Regards to Vee, Milagros and Jeff. Utah-like pow on Sunday? Darn! Kicking myself on the side of the head for not staying in VT for the weekend!!! __________________ To you from failing hands we throw the torch. Be yours to hold it high.

Mar 19, 2007, 8:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
thetrailboss Paddling...... Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Now Playing at Sugarbush and Burke. Posts: 10,399	I think I know who "beginner" is. She enjoyed some of the stuff at Burke IIRC __________________ Live, Ski, or Die! Trailboss' Ski Videos now on YouTube! Trailboss' Photo Albums. 66 days for the 2007-2008 ski season!!!! 39 of the 48 New Hampshire 4,000 Footers Completed and Counting!

Mar 20, 2007, 6:18 AM	#7 (permalink)
SkiDork Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Merrick, NY Posts: 1,246	here are some more pics taken that same day by MtnMan and Spanky over on KZone. The first link is the rest of MtnMans pics in webshots. The little guy in the green jacket and orange helmet is Iceman, my son. (edited - no hotlinking from KZone. I posted a link to the thread below) Last edited by SkiDork; Mar 20, 2007 at 6:40 AM.

Mar 20, 2007, 6:19 AM	#8 (permalink)
SkiDork Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Merrick, NY Posts: 1,246	more: edited - no hotlinking from KZone, link posted below... Grom Iceman showing off: Last edited by SkiDork; Mar 20, 2007 at 6:50 AM. Reason: more pics

Mar 19, 2007, 10:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
Newpylong Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 866	Shweettttt

Mar 20, 2007, 6:21 AM	#9 (permalink)
andyzee Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Home Posts: 7,357	I cannot see!! __________________ Hardware is out Stitches are out

Mar 20, 2007, 6:39 AM	#10 (permalink)
SkiDork Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Merrick, NY Posts: 1,246	ahhh - not hotlinking. I'll just post a link to the KZone thread instead... http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums...ic.php?t=16270

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