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Date(s) Skied: Tuesday, 1/3/2006, 7:15 pm - 10:05 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Packed powder, powder, crud. Clear and cool. No wind. Beautiful night.
Trip Report: Just got back from a night session at Ski Sundown. Our area picked up about a foot of snow today so the conditions were awesome. Lots of buttery smooth packed powder with plenty of powder and crud on the trail sides to play on.
There was a race going on Gunbarrel on the lower portion of the hill, but it didn't effect great the skiing on skier's right of the upper portion of the mountain's steepest run. There were some nice lines and some small bumps forming which helped me work on some technique. Tonight the "extension" aspect of bump skiing finally clicked. The great smooth surface allowed me to really concentrate on driving my skis down the backside (or is it front side?
) of the small moguls (crud piles really...).
The rest of the mountain skied well. Stinger was somewhat a nightmare with a HUGE terrain park and tons of park rats flying all over. Temptor was groomed in the evening and didn't ski well until the skier traffic broke it up. There was a ton of powder and fun lines on skier's left of Noreaster. I stuck to Gunbarrel for most of my runs though.
Saw Brian working the A lift and I tried not to make him feel too bad about him working the lift as I was skiing, but you could tell he'd rather be out there. Funny story about the A Triple. As I approached the summit, the lift stopped and I noticed a young girl on her way down. She missed the stop gate and went right around the bullwheel. The summit liftie must have been asleep as she was about three chair down the descent before the lift was stopped. Ski patrol struggled to decide how to get her down. She wasn't able to get the bar back down so they were going to try to extract her. :blink: Finally, with a makeshift pole made of a terrain marker pole and a ski pole they were able to help her get the bar down. A few redcoats jumped into the chairs behind her to help her feel comfortable on the way down. She was obviously scared and I felt for her. Of course numerous jackasses on the lift called for them to just start it the whole time. When it finally did, the cheers heard up and down the mountain were amusing.
All in all a really great night skiing session and likely my last outing for a while. My wife is due in 2 1/2 weeks with our second child so it's time to stay home and wait for the happy day. I can't compain. Tonight was Day 8 and the great pre-Christmas conditions of December were very satisfying. A number of highlights from "part one" of my ski season:
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Packed powder, powder, crud. Clear and cool. No wind. Beautiful night.
Trip Report: Just got back from a night session at Ski Sundown. Our area picked up about a foot of snow today so the conditions were awesome. Lots of buttery smooth packed powder with plenty of powder and crud on the trail sides to play on.
There was a race going on Gunbarrel on the lower portion of the hill, but it didn't effect great the skiing on skier's right of the upper portion of the mountain's steepest run. There were some nice lines and some small bumps forming which helped me work on some technique. Tonight the "extension" aspect of bump skiing finally clicked. The great smooth surface allowed me to really concentrate on driving my skis down the backside (or is it front side?
) of the small moguls (crud piles really...).The rest of the mountain skied well. Stinger was somewhat a nightmare with a HUGE terrain park and tons of park rats flying all over. Temptor was groomed in the evening and didn't ski well until the skier traffic broke it up. There was a ton of powder and fun lines on skier's left of Noreaster. I stuck to Gunbarrel for most of my runs though.
Saw Brian working the A lift and I tried not to make him feel too bad about him working the lift as I was skiing, but you could tell he'd rather be out there. Funny story about the A Triple. As I approached the summit, the lift stopped and I noticed a young girl on her way down. She missed the stop gate and went right around the bullwheel. The summit liftie must have been asleep as she was about three chair down the descent before the lift was stopped. Ski patrol struggled to decide how to get her down. She wasn't able to get the bar back down so they were going to try to extract her. :blink: Finally, with a makeshift pole made of a terrain marker pole and a ski pole they were able to help her get the bar down. A few redcoats jumped into the chairs behind her to help her feel comfortable on the way down. She was obviously scared and I felt for her. Of course numerous jackasses on the lift called for them to just start it the whole time. When it finally did, the cheers heard up and down the mountain were amusing.
All in all a really great night skiing session and likely my last outing for a while. My wife is due in 2 1/2 weeks with our second child so it's time to stay home and wait for the happy day. I can't compain. Tonight was Day 8 and the great pre-Christmas conditions of December were very satisfying. A number of highlights from "part one" of my ski season:
- Met a few new AZers in highpeaksdrifter, Son of Drifter and BeanoNYC
- Got to ski with three other mods this season - ALLSKIING, bvibert and thetrailboss
- Two powder days at Ski Suindown, of all places.
- A brief visit to a new mountain - Sunapee
- A revisit to a mountain in Mohawk after a 9 year hiatus
- An excellent full day at Jiminy with unexpected perfect packed powder conditions.
