Mount Snow 4/19/08

[Zand]

Date(s) Skied: Saturday 4/19/08

Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow, VT

Conditions: Spring, Temps in the 70s, Bluebird

Trip Report:

Amazing spring day at Mount Snow. Not too often you can ski the trees in shorts and a t-shirt in April in southern VT.

Arrived at the mountain at 10:15 and skied to 4. Mid day, I had a burger and mountain dew at the grill on the deck for $9.75 which is about half of what they normally charge. Good crowd yesterday too.

On the main face, I hit Ledge, Exhibition, Ego Alley, Un Blanco Gulch, Uncles, Tramline, and South Bowl. Ledge is very narrow at this point and is probably finished off by now. Uncles has plenty of bare spots and grass skiing in some spots. Tramline is extremely narrow and also probably about done. South Bowl is in good shape. Upper Ex has a lot of bare spots too but I didn't hit the bumps halfway down. Ego still has amazing bumps in that middle section worth repeating plenty of times. Gulch's park was a little too mushy to really do much.

On the north face, I hit Chute, Freefall, Challenger, PDF, Epiphany, Plummet, and Ripcord. Chute was groomed and had nice snow and an amazing base. Challenger was ungroomed but nothing worth writing home about as far as bumps go. Still fun though and in good shape. Freefall had some great snow with small bumps every so often from all the traffic it got. PDF was a lot like Challenger. Epiphany was covered in debris and had plenty of bare spots and rocks. If you hate your skis it's a lot of fun and cool being able to ski trees this time of the year there. Committed had great bumps and the bumps on upper Ripcord before the headwall are just amazing. Ripcord is in awesome shape. The middle of the headwall is down to the ice but is edgeable enough to make controlled turns. Jaws and Olympic are closed.

That's about all... I'll be at AZ day next Sunday for their final day and my final day.

Photo 1: Ripcord from the bottom. Doesn't do the trail justice, but a good shot of the coverage.
Photo 2: Ripcord from above the headwall... you can tell how big the drop is from the 3 ants at the bottom.
Photo 3: "Some Walking Required" at the top of Uncles.
Photo 4: Shows the very narrow ribbon of snow on Tramline.

[reefer]

Was there Saturday also. Was looking for you, I guess not hard enough. We started at 9:30 and covered the whole hill several times til' about 3:30. Very accurate report except Jaws was open off of Plummet. Was in great shape. We did that 3-4 times!
That may have been it for me. Had such a great time I could easily make it my last day of the year. I'm sure a lot of those trails will be closed up next week based on the weather report of real warmth all week.
Wasn’t a lot of coverage on many as Zand stated. There will be plenty to ski on next week, just not the classics.
Very good point about the deckburgers. Only $5.25! Not bad either! Kudos to Mt. Snow. They lowered their food and alcohol prices considerably this year right from the start. Last year that burger was $10.00!
We packed a cooler, bought food there and did some fun tailgating out in the lot with several others!
Another tip if you go is to park in VIP lot. You can walk your stuff right around the Timber House to the Summit Lift. Easy walk for lunch back to the vehicle.
Great year at Mt. Snow!
Here's a few pics:
Ripcord, Ledges (melting away), Challenger, Jaws, bottom of "booter" (powbumps got last jump obviously, landing is mostly brown and there was a snow fence at the launch point).

[Zand]

Reefer... I was wearing a Bruins shirt (Lucic to be exact) and hat. I didn't get there in tie to find you at 10 AM and don't know what you look like.

And damn... never even noticed Jaws was open from there. I wish I looked harder, I love that run.

[Newpylong]

GO BRUINS TONIGHT, ha.

[reefer]

Think I definitely saw you from TNF lift. Took note of anyone in a Bruins jersey. Definitely saw #17 Lucic and smiled (the new Cam Neely). Never would have known it was you. Should be a great game tonight! Can't wait!
I was in Hard Rock Las Vegas T-shirt and black Magic Mountain hat. Was wearing my black LL Bean pants.

[powhunter]

nice........looks like there still is plenty of goods for us next sunday!!!

steve

[skijay]

Saturday was an awesome day. North Face was the best part of Saturday.

On the main mountain, I was going to take Uncle's but did not want to walk. I took Hop down and had to hop a section where the snow was just about gone. I like the fact that Mount Snow leaves trails open like this and lets the skier / rider have a choice to do it or not. I am amazed at how much snow is left on the mountain. Here are some pix:
From North Face:

Part of the Hop trail:

Looking at the Sundance lift

[kingslug]

Hope there is some left for you guys at the end of the month..it's going fast. Ripcord looks like it will last though.