Magic 1/4/2010

[polski]

Planned to make my first visit ever to Burke but called an audible at 5 a.m. and went to Magic instead after NWS warned of possible freezing drizzle in N VT. Great day with an inch of new on top of about a foot the two previous days. Lots of fresh tracks including some boot-deep+ in the woods and first tracks on Green Line for my last run of the day, about 20 minutes ago. Leaving now, more later.

[marcski]

Nice. I bet my day at work was better than yours skiing at Magic

[SKIQUATTRO]

Magic is on the MUST HIT list for this season

[bvibert]

Sounds like they're pretty well covered. Is everything open?

[wa-loaf]

Originally Posted by bvibert

Sounds like they're pretty well covered. Is everything open?

If they have a good base down everywhere now, it might be a good call for the next powder day.

[bvibert]

Originally Posted by wa-loaf

If they have a good base down everywhere now, it might be a good call for the next powder day.

I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad call.

[2knees]

trail report says everything except black magic, which based on my experience of one run down it last year, takes a whole lot more then 14" to open.

[powbmps]

Originally Posted by 2knees

trail report says everything except black magic, which based on my experience of one run down it last year, takes a whole lot more then 14" to open.

I would agree with that.

[polski]

Originally Posted by 2knees

trail report says everything except black magic, which based on my experience of one run down it last year, takes a whole lot more then 14" to open.

The trail report didn't precisely reflect reality on the ground. The only trail with a rope across it was Twilight Zone, though I wound up skiing the bottom half of the top part anyway after cutting through a too-tight-for-me glade from Witch. In other news of hitting terrain that was over my head, I did ski Black Magic, and admittedly the toughest parts of that were survival skiing. Magician (headwall) also was open from the top -- that's the one that really surprised me this early in the season - but I did not try navigating that one.

Anyway, they have a lot more than 14" on the steeps -- they got a decent natural base that got rained on and then froze after Christmas. Very little exposed rock.

The west side was skiing really well though often fairly technical, going back and forth between powder (sometimes somewhat wind-loaded) and wind scour. Slide of Hans was a bit scratchy and the bottom half of Broomstick was pretty scraped but those were trivial issues. Sorcerer had some of the best snow outside of the woods. Heart of Magician and Black Line were big powdery playgrounds.

The Hallows were deep, 15-16" a pretty typical measurement, knee deep in spots. At times there I bottomed out on older rain crust but there was enough fresh on top that that wasn't a problem. Goniff Glade also was outstanding.

[pepperdawg]

Also hit up Magic yesterday - 1/4/10

Not much else to add, but lots of nice, light, light powder over on the east side on the lower incline slopes not wind packed at all....for example Mystery had lots o nice snow - especailly on the sides boot-to-almost-knee deep.....good stuff.

Magic was the usual for weekday - pull up at 9:30 and there are 10 cars in the lot.....didnt stand in line once....sad for the struggling area, but one of the reasons that keep me coming back...a self defeat theory

Yah - some of the exposed faces were yellow ice, but for the most part coverage was good/excellent - Slide of Hans was nice, as mentioned the Hallows had LOTS of untracked..all week should be money in there.....have pics, but the 100-1 card USB card reader I grabbed this morning doesnt do SD card??? WTF...will post some later...