adamti91
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Belleayre Mountain, February 18, 2007:
Introduction: President's day Sunday... PACKED at Belleayre but no ride to Plattekill (headed up there tomorrow, and Windham and Hunter would obviously be more crowded than Belleayre, especially the latter). Got up pretty early at around 9:15, the ticket line was at least 45 people long but the season passholders line was only two people, lucky me...
Weapon of Choice: Option Sansalone 135 [Supercap 149 is getting tuned at Potter Brothers, had to whip out the old board from a few years back, boy was this thing fun to mess around with today. Sort of wish I had the Supercap for carving, but whatever it's not going to be done getting tuned up until midweek, PB was probably swamped for the holiday].
Conditions: Most of the snow from Valentine's Day was still up there, and tons of powder could be found on sides of most trails and non marked tree runs. First run was down Tongora, cutting across to Belleayre Glades (this has become a favorite run of mine...), which surprisingly were not that tracked out, especially on the sides. The odd stick or stone was poking through though. Took a run down Wannatuska then headed over to the park and met up with some friends for some runs in there. Headed over to Tomahawk with them for a run through the Deer Run trees, nice pow and open turns if you could fine the right line, tons of covered roots though and we all fell a few times. The woods run we took throws you out on Cayuga, whitch leads to the bottom of Dot Nebel. Hit the same woods again, this time took some better lines with a better result. Took a run down the glades under Tomahawk, which had some bumps, almost like moguls for most of it. Hit Seneca, which had real big moguls, not much fun on a snowboard. We headed back to the park to find the landings real icy and the gapers all in full force. I get sort of tired of the park so after a few runs my friends were wanting to hike the first jump, front flipping and what not so I took off down to get some lunch (around 12 now?). The place was PACKED, but met up with another friend, took some runs down Tongora > Belleayre Glades, then headed over to Tomahawk with him. Hit the Deer Run woods again, followed the old lines until it met the hiking trail, then we split up to race to the bottom. We came out on top of the cliffs where Deer Run opens up and meets Cayuga at about the same time... One run down Seneca and we headed in for some curly fries. Went over to Superchief to find almost no lift line, so we hit up the trees between Belleayre Run and Wannatuska from the top (in those pine trees, really cool in there). Some big rocks but it was my backup board anyway, no big deal. Went straight down through Belleayre Glades, then did the whole thing again for the last run of the day, we left around 4.
Weather: Pretty cold and windy. Snow showers early on and then cleared up again. Visibility got really low and the snow was really coming down hard on my second trip over to Tomahawk, maybe around 2? Apparantly they got 2" of powder today which kept the trails in good shape.
Lifts: Superchief was PACKED by 10:00, 25-30+ minute wait. Lift 7 wasn't as bad, but still around 5 or 10 minutes. They were racing over near Tomahawk (on Peekamoose of all places, not Dot Nebel which is the racing trail), so there was a good 10 or 15 minute wait there, but that died down to 2-3 chairs by afternoon. Lift 7 also died down, and even Superchief had only a 2 minute wait by my last run, despite Belleayre being open until 4:30 today.
Notes: Apparantley the most crowded day at Belleayre ever? I think that's what the announcement said, it was definatley the most crowded of the year and I guess ever... $10 off next lift ticket if you show today's (I have a pass so it doesn't really matter but any of you up there today who didn't know, they announced it a bunch). They kept the mountain open until 4:30 because of the crowds I guess, don't know why they don't do it everyday if it's obviously not for a safety reason, but I got a ride home from my friend at 4 anyway.
Rating: 9/10
Conclusion: Good conditions most of the day, fun tree runs, but completely packed...
Introduction: President's day Sunday... PACKED at Belleayre but no ride to Plattekill (headed up there tomorrow, and Windham and Hunter would obviously be more crowded than Belleayre, especially the latter). Got up pretty early at around 9:15, the ticket line was at least 45 people long but the season passholders line was only two people, lucky me...
Weapon of Choice: Option Sansalone 135 [Supercap 149 is getting tuned at Potter Brothers, had to whip out the old board from a few years back, boy was this thing fun to mess around with today. Sort of wish I had the Supercap for carving, but whatever it's not going to be done getting tuned up until midweek, PB was probably swamped for the holiday].
Conditions: Most of the snow from Valentine's Day was still up there, and tons of powder could be found on sides of most trails and non marked tree runs. First run was down Tongora, cutting across to Belleayre Glades (this has become a favorite run of mine...), which surprisingly were not that tracked out, especially on the sides. The odd stick or stone was poking through though. Took a run down Wannatuska then headed over to the park and met up with some friends for some runs in there. Headed over to Tomahawk with them for a run through the Deer Run trees, nice pow and open turns if you could fine the right line, tons of covered roots though and we all fell a few times. The woods run we took throws you out on Cayuga, whitch leads to the bottom of Dot Nebel. Hit the same woods again, this time took some better lines with a better result. Took a run down the glades under Tomahawk, which had some bumps, almost like moguls for most of it. Hit Seneca, which had real big moguls, not much fun on a snowboard. We headed back to the park to find the landings real icy and the gapers all in full force. I get sort of tired of the park so after a few runs my friends were wanting to hike the first jump, front flipping and what not so I took off down to get some lunch (around 12 now?). The place was PACKED, but met up with another friend, took some runs down Tongora > Belleayre Glades, then headed over to Tomahawk with him. Hit the Deer Run woods again, followed the old lines until it met the hiking trail, then we split up to race to the bottom. We came out on top of the cliffs where Deer Run opens up and meets Cayuga at about the same time... One run down Seneca and we headed in for some curly fries. Went over to Superchief to find almost no lift line, so we hit up the trees between Belleayre Run and Wannatuska from the top (in those pine trees, really cool in there). Some big rocks but it was my backup board anyway, no big deal. Went straight down through Belleayre Glades, then did the whole thing again for the last run of the day, we left around 4.
Weather: Pretty cold and windy. Snow showers early on and then cleared up again. Visibility got really low and the snow was really coming down hard on my second trip over to Tomahawk, maybe around 2? Apparantly they got 2" of powder today which kept the trails in good shape.
Lifts: Superchief was PACKED by 10:00, 25-30+ minute wait. Lift 7 wasn't as bad, but still around 5 or 10 minutes. They were racing over near Tomahawk (on Peekamoose of all places, not Dot Nebel which is the racing trail), so there was a good 10 or 15 minute wait there, but that died down to 2-3 chairs by afternoon. Lift 7 also died down, and even Superchief had only a 2 minute wait by my last run, despite Belleayre being open until 4:30 today.
Notes: Apparantley the most crowded day at Belleayre ever? I think that's what the announcement said, it was definatley the most crowded of the year and I guess ever... $10 off next lift ticket if you show today's (I have a pass so it doesn't really matter but any of you up there today who didn't know, they announced it a bunch). They kept the mountain open until 4:30 because of the crowds I guess, don't know why they don't do it everyday if it's obviously not for a safety reason, but I got a ride home from my friend at 4 anyway.
Rating: 9/10
Conclusion: Good conditions most of the day, fun tree runs, but completely packed...
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