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Date(s) Skied: Wednesday, 12/27/2006: 6:55 pm - 10:10 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Hard pack, loose granular, SPARKS! :-o Flurries early, clear late. Temps near 30, calm.
Trip Report: This was the first official Wednesday meet-up for me. It's been tough looking up at the mountain the past two days while my daughter is in the Puffins program and not be able to ski. This evening was my chance. As I headed onto the lift, I noticed someone that matched loafer89's and his son's description, but they were heading for the lodge. I rode up and got to the sun deck shortly after 7 pm. Knowing bvibert would be later and being pretty sure it was loafer89 at the base, I only waited a few minutes as I was sure we'd all hook up later.
I took a few runs and it was tough to find a rhythm in the variable hard pack/LGR snow. On my third ride up I noticed Brian load a few chairs ahead of me and got a call from him on the ride up. We met at the top and soon loafer89, his son Warren (cool little kid) and loafer's newphew joined us. Turns out they were waiting on the deck at the base lodge. We should clarify for future meet-ups that the meeting spot is the sundeck on Nor'easter. Brian and I took a few runs together and later in the evening we got a chance to take several runs with loafer89.
Tricky skiing this evening, but I actually started having blast after my 4th or 5th run. There were some fun lines scattered around the mountain especially skier's left of Temptor and Nor'easter. I can tell Brian is starting to get into such terrain as well as he has been mentioning lately that he likes when they don't do an evening groom...
Anyway, lots of thin spots with dirt and rock mixed it. Interesting to see all the sparks generated by the edges of everyone's skis as they hit little pebbles and pieces of dirt (and sometimes legit rock) mixed in with the hard pack. There were still some areas of snow several feet deep that Brian and I pointed out to loafer. The mountain certainly has done good job with the limited snowmaking windows they've had. We saw some mountain ops activity around the snowguns and it's now cold enough so I'd imagine they are resurfacing as we speak.
A great Wednesday meet-up! :beer:
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
Conditions: Hard pack, loose granular, SPARKS! :-o Flurries early, clear late. Temps near 30, calm.
Trip Report: This was the first official Wednesday meet-up for me. It's been tough looking up at the mountain the past two days while my daughter is in the Puffins program and not be able to ski. This evening was my chance. As I headed onto the lift, I noticed someone that matched loafer89's and his son's description, but they were heading for the lodge. I rode up and got to the sun deck shortly after 7 pm. Knowing bvibert would be later and being pretty sure it was loafer89 at the base, I only waited a few minutes as I was sure we'd all hook up later.
I took a few runs and it was tough to find a rhythm in the variable hard pack/LGR snow. On my third ride up I noticed Brian load a few chairs ahead of me and got a call from him on the ride up. We met at the top and soon loafer89, his son Warren (cool little kid) and loafer's newphew joined us. Turns out they were waiting on the deck at the base lodge. We should clarify for future meet-ups that the meeting spot is the sundeck on Nor'easter. Brian and I took a few runs together and later in the evening we got a chance to take several runs with loafer89.
Tricky skiing this evening, but I actually started having blast after my 4th or 5th run. There were some fun lines scattered around the mountain especially skier's left of Temptor and Nor'easter. I can tell Brian is starting to get into such terrain as well as he has been mentioning lately that he likes when they don't do an evening groom...
Anyway, lots of thin spots with dirt and rock mixed it. Interesting to see all the sparks generated by the edges of everyone's skis as they hit little pebbles and pieces of dirt (and sometimes legit rock) mixed in with the hard pack. There were still some areas of snow several feet deep that Brian and I pointed out to loafer. The mountain certainly has done good job with the limited snowmaking windows they've had. We saw some mountain ops activity around the snowguns and it's now cold enough so I'd imagine they are resurfacing as we speak.A great Wednesday meet-up! :beer:
