Date(s) Skied: Monday, 3/19/2007, 10:05 am - 4:00 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Hunter Mountain, NY
Conditions: Cruddy powder, dense powder bumps, packed powder, some scratchy troughs. Sunny am, cloudy pm, Snow squalls late in the day, temps in the 20's, Calm winds.
Trip Report: I had a severe case of ski-itis today. I couldn't get out this weekend so I just had to try and get in a day on quite possibly the last few days of mid-winter conditions in this area. Clicked in a bit after 10 am and took a few runs. It was nice and sunny this morning and it was a pleasure skiing the Hunter front side. The bumps on Cliff and Broadway were nice. Kind of like skiing dense chalk dust on styrofoam. My form was pretty rough early on and my feet were aching for whatever reason. Ike was pretty funky. On the next run I found a neat little lower mountain tree shot.
Met up with 2knees shortly after 11 am at the summit and we took a few runs on the front hitting the bumps on Cliff, Broadway, Ike, Crossover and Lower K. We didn't find too many lines that wowed us so we headed over to the West sides via Colonel's to Claires. Claire's was okay, but there's a lot of ice showing up between the bumps. The line skier's left directly under the lift was the best.
We then made our way to Annapurna. Purna was where it's at today, especially once we found some great snow skier's left on the steep section. Not great bumps up there, but nice snow allowing for easy skiing. Great bumps lines could be found once the pitch mellowed a bit. This really is a great run - relentless top to bottom moguls. We hit Purna several times and then took a quick 20 minute lunch after hitting Upper K (awesome) and lower (okay).
After lunch we huffed it back to Annapurna and just lapped it this afternoon. Pat had to split around 3 pm so I skied down with him to take a break and get a drink. My plan was then to head back to Purna for one more. I hit Wayout (groomed but very nice) and hopped on Z lift. At the top I noticed Claire's and Purna were both roped so I hit K27 again. Had a great run on Lower; so much so that I rode the quad up and hit it again.
Great day. I feel much better.
The mountain has a ton of snow and is really set up well for some nice spring bumps. Got a bunch of video so I'll try to put something together later.