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Date(s) Skied: 2/13/05
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Washington - Cog Railway Ski Train
Conditions: Groomed Packed Powder
Trip Report: Skied Wildcat until 1:30 - Left begrudgingly and rushed over to catch the last run on the Cog. My Fiance' saw the Cog ad and really wanted to ski on Mount Washington. After years of hearing my stories about Tuckermans she wanted in too!
We got there and bought a one ride pass for $25 but they told us we could take 2 if we wanted.
DMC next to the track... Railslides???
The train ground jerkingly up the track to about the 1/3 of the way up; Well below treeline. it was filled with about 6 skiers and 6 tourists not skiing. After about 20 minutes we got to our stop. We got out and took pictures - all the non-skiers were anxious for us to start downhill so they could take some pictures. We hiked up a little to get some untracked and continued down. The surface was groomed really nicely.. Total packed powder... With tiny grains of coal mixed in. The sides of he trail were all powder about a foot deep.. really nice.. I kept looking for soot on the trees but other then the tiny black particles - there really weren't any..
Stopped half way down and waited for the train to catch up... Just to check it out... then rode to the bottom..
Took one more run after that but we just did a top to bottom.. Took a couple minutes to ski the whole thing..
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Washington - Cog Railway Ski Train
Conditions: Groomed Packed Powder
Trip Report: Skied Wildcat until 1:30 - Left begrudgingly and rushed over to catch the last run on the Cog. My Fiance' saw the Cog ad and really wanted to ski on Mount Washington. After years of hearing my stories about Tuckermans she wanted in too!
We got there and bought a one ride pass for $25 but they told us we could take 2 if we wanted.
DMC next to the track... Railslides???
The train ground jerkingly up the track to about the 1/3 of the way up; Well below treeline. it was filled with about 6 skiers and 6 tourists not skiing. After about 20 minutes we got to our stop. We got out and took pictures - all the non-skiers were anxious for us to start downhill so they could take some pictures. We hiked up a little to get some untracked and continued down. The surface was groomed really nicely.. Total packed powder... With tiny grains of coal mixed in. The sides of he trail were all powder about a foot deep.. really nice.. I kept looking for soot on the trees but other then the tiny black particles - there really weren't any..
Stopped half way down and waited for the train to catch up... Just to check it out... then rode to the bottom..
Took one more run after that but we just did a top to bottom.. Took a couple minutes to ski the whole thing..