Okemo 2/11

ckofer · Feb 11, 2007

Got my butt on the road from Strafford, NH at 530 to get there about 8.

This is my second visit and have confirmed what I observed the first time: this is a great big intermediate mountain.

I will give them credit, however, for good grooming. They seem to have most trails open and the corduroy in the morning was great. Not surprisingly, it was pretty scratchy on many trails by 2 pm.

Now I suppose you could have a blast hammering some of these runs with hardpack but there are quite a few human obstacles on every trail.

Next time I'll bring my snowboard.

SKIQUATTRO · Feb 12, 2007

my wife and i were there yesterday....do they have to groom ALL the trails?? we love skiing ungroomed trails, we only found ONE: Lower Tomahawk...nice ungroomed snow, but othere than that all 100 trails felt the same, all groomed, scracted off....we were bored by lunch....We were at PICO on Sat and most of it was ungroomed...shoulda stayed there...you can keep Okemo...looks like we'll be driving further and further north to get our fix of ungroomed steeps and trees

Newpylong · Feb 12, 2007

Personally I love getting yelled at to slow down when I am in a wedge doing just that. If I go any slower I might as well have X-country skis on. Happens everytime to me there.....ugh. lol

jaywbigred · Feb 12, 2007

Any bump trails set-up?

Newpylong · Feb 12, 2007

Strangly not this year, no seeded bumps. Just regular ones...and small ones at that.

SKIQUATTRO · Feb 12, 2007

very poor showing by Okemo if i must say so....

jack97 · Feb 12, 2007

Newpylong said:
Strangly not this year, no seeded bumps. Just regular ones...and small ones at that.

Kind of surpised. Their snow report showed three mogul trails and they are usaully seeded. I know, sel choice and blackout are near the terrain parks, riders usually do an intial charge at them and bail after the first two or three rows. So it might have made them look smaller going in.

BTW, I'm not againts rider going the trails, I saw one rider on the mogul trail w/ the milder pitch at sunapee, he almost got it.

Newpylong · Feb 12, 2007

Last year the Plunge had some sweet bumps...thats really one of the only runs I like there..

ckofer · Feb 13, 2007

SKIQUATTRO said:
my wife and i were there yesterday....do they have to groom ALL the trails?? we love skiing ungroomed trails, we only found ONE: Lower Tomahawk...nice ungroomed snow, but othere than that all 100 trails felt the same, all groomed, scracted off....we were bored by lunch....We were at PICO on Sat and most of it was ungroomed...shoulda stayed there...you can keep Okemo...looks like we'll be driving further and further north to get our fix of ungroomed steeps and trees

The friend with whom I ski and I have chosen to rename Okemo: Big Blue :razz:

BeanoNYC · Feb 13, 2007

ckofer said:
The friend with whom I ski and I have chosen to rename Okemo: Big Blue :razz:

That's great!

Morewood · Feb 13, 2007

jaywbigred said:
Any bump trails set-up?

I was up at Okemo Fri-Mon. Sel's Choice had sweet seeded bumps and they blew fresh snow on them Friday night. Saturday they were sweet!

maplevalleymaster · Feb 14, 2007

As for the bumps, they now have Sel's Choice, Backout, Big Bang and Eclipse with moguls. they got Double Diamond open today and are expected to be 100% open by tomorrow.

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