Zand
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Date(s) Skied: Saturday 11/24/07
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow, VT
Conditions: Worse than Veterans Day to put it blatantly
Trip Report:
Today was a bit of a waste of $52. Only skied 4 hours before I'd had enough of all the people and scraped off trails. I've never seen so many rude skiers on one mountain in my life.
Started off at Carinthia at 10:00 and took Nitro Express up to Deer Run to head back to the base. No more than half way down, a snowboarder cut off my step dad and took himself out (came flying off a jump right in front of him). Other than that, there are tons of people on the trail at once. The conditions were decent at that point though.
Hit the Summit Quad which had a 1-2 minute wait and took it up to Canyon. Canyon had the worse case of bottleneck on the first headwall with tons of people skidding all over the place but it was much better when it widened at the bottom of the steep. Hung a left and went down River Run which was receiving snowmaking.
Headed up the Challenger Triple and headed over to Chute (the little cut-across from the top of the left is almost completely bare... it's clear they haven't touched it with a snowgun since opening weekend) and to my dismay, IT WAS GROOMED. With tons of idiots skidding all over the steeps and skiing it off, it was not fun at all. Once in a great while there was some loose stuff off the lip to the left, but other than that it was horrid. 80% of the people on it shouldn't have been.
Headed back up and took Canyon to Standard. Canyon was less crowded at that point and holding the good conditions pretty well. Standard had some nice loose stuff to the right which had a couple small mogul patches and a couple small jumps. Tons of people though.
Next up were 3 runs on Standard as well as one on Snowdance. Snowdance probably shouldn't have been open... the top was decent but after that it was mostly rocks, grass, ice, and whatever was white was either scraped or bumped. Not to mention 500 people.
Headed back to the Summit Quad. As we were standing in line, the liftie waved for the 4 of us to go. The people in the line next to us kept coming out and wouldn't let us in even though it was our turn. One group got in front of us and then I'd had enough so I cut in front of the next group of 4 skiers and got into a small altercation.
Guy: Why don't you wait in line like the rest of us
Me: Maybe you should stop and let us go considering we were waved out about 3 chairs ago
Guy: Well you should pay better attention
Me: Why don't you tell yourself and the group in front of us that
At the top he had more words for me calling me all kinds of stuff and I basically concluded "You're the idiot, have a nice day" and skied off. Headed down Long John which was scraped off and had more people flying around out of control as well as ski patrol strapping someone into the dead sled. After we got onto Deer Run (which was completely skied off at that point) after the Carinthia intersection, some snowboarder came flying off the same jump on the left side as mentioned earlier, careened straight across the trail and sat right in front of some young girl making her way down the right side trying to stop himself from flying into the woods. She clipped the end of his board and flew head first into the woods and he also slid in head first. The 2 ski patrollers and the dead sled came down after us and one of the patrollers stopped, made sure everyone was OK, and then ripped off the boarder's pass since there were about 10 witnesses who stopped.
After we got through that mess I hit Vermontster which had some decent features, but it too was scraped off very bad as crowded parks usually are.
Took one more run down Deer Run to Season Pass which was getting snowmaking and decided to call it a day. It was probably my fault for even bothering going up the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but between all the idiots, GROOMED Chute, and scraped off trails, it was not a good day.
I'll have a Wachusett report this week sometime. As for Mount Snow, if theres a lot more terrain open for Christmas I'll be back, but if it's limited terrain, fuggedaboutit, I'm not dealing with masses of gapers on 5 trails.
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow, VT
Conditions: Worse than Veterans Day to put it blatantly
Trip Report:
Today was a bit of a waste of $52. Only skied 4 hours before I'd had enough of all the people and scraped off trails. I've never seen so many rude skiers on one mountain in my life.
Started off at Carinthia at 10:00 and took Nitro Express up to Deer Run to head back to the base. No more than half way down, a snowboarder cut off my step dad and took himself out (came flying off a jump right in front of him). Other than that, there are tons of people on the trail at once. The conditions were decent at that point though.
Hit the Summit Quad which had a 1-2 minute wait and took it up to Canyon. Canyon had the worse case of bottleneck on the first headwall with tons of people skidding all over the place but it was much better when it widened at the bottom of the steep. Hung a left and went down River Run which was receiving snowmaking.
Headed up the Challenger Triple and headed over to Chute (the little cut-across from the top of the left is almost completely bare... it's clear they haven't touched it with a snowgun since opening weekend) and to my dismay, IT WAS GROOMED. With tons of idiots skidding all over the steeps and skiing it off, it was not fun at all. Once in a great while there was some loose stuff off the lip to the left, but other than that it was horrid. 80% of the people on it shouldn't have been.
Headed back up and took Canyon to Standard. Canyon was less crowded at that point and holding the good conditions pretty well. Standard had some nice loose stuff to the right which had a couple small mogul patches and a couple small jumps. Tons of people though.
Next up were 3 runs on Standard as well as one on Snowdance. Snowdance probably shouldn't have been open... the top was decent but after that it was mostly rocks, grass, ice, and whatever was white was either scraped or bumped. Not to mention 500 people.
Headed back to the Summit Quad. As we were standing in line, the liftie waved for the 4 of us to go. The people in the line next to us kept coming out and wouldn't let us in even though it was our turn. One group got in front of us and then I'd had enough so I cut in front of the next group of 4 skiers and got into a small altercation.
Guy: Why don't you wait in line like the rest of us
Me: Maybe you should stop and let us go considering we were waved out about 3 chairs ago
Guy: Well you should pay better attention
Me: Why don't you tell yourself and the group in front of us that
At the top he had more words for me calling me all kinds of stuff and I basically concluded "You're the idiot, have a nice day" and skied off. Headed down Long John which was scraped off and had more people flying around out of control as well as ski patrol strapping someone into the dead sled. After we got onto Deer Run (which was completely skied off at that point) after the Carinthia intersection, some snowboarder came flying off the same jump on the left side as mentioned earlier, careened straight across the trail and sat right in front of some young girl making her way down the right side trying to stop himself from flying into the woods. She clipped the end of his board and flew head first into the woods and he also slid in head first. The 2 ski patrollers and the dead sled came down after us and one of the patrollers stopped, made sure everyone was OK, and then ripped off the boarder's pass since there were about 10 witnesses who stopped.
After we got through that mess I hit Vermontster which had some decent features, but it too was scraped off very bad as crowded parks usually are.
Took one more run down Deer Run to Season Pass which was getting snowmaking and decided to call it a day. It was probably my fault for even bothering going up the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but between all the idiots, GROOMED Chute, and scraped off trails, it was not a good day.
I'll have a Wachusett report this week sometime. As for Mount Snow, if theres a lot more terrain open for Christmas I'll be back, but if it's limited terrain, fuggedaboutit, I'm not dealing with masses of gapers on 5 trails.
