WJenness
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Date(s) Skied: 2/27/10
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Powder / Packed Powder / Mank
Trip Report: Had a great day skiing SR today.
Drove up last night, back and forth rain / sleet / snow from MA all the way up. Was getting nervous at all the bare ground I was seeing while driving up on 95.
Right around the bowling alley on rt. 26 it changed over to Snow and didn't go back.
The closer we got to the mountain, the deeper and deeper the snowbanks got.
Parked at Brookside and went to bed.
Out the door right around 8:00AM today (buddy overslept for first tracks... oh well, still had a great day).
Pulled the skis out of the car and had to clear about 5"-6" of wet newfallen snow off the trunk of the car... The density kind of worried me...
Started out with a run down Cascades to Barker. Cascades had been groomed the night before, was pretty wet and packed underneath with a nice coating of lighter (6-8" it seemed) stuff on top. Took the Barker quad up and hit an incredible run down Top Gun. Nice and deep and ungroomed... Got a little manky towards the bottom.
Because of that we decided to head west.
Jordan was amazing, but had pretty long lift lines. We skied one run each on an ungroomed rouge angel, ungroomed excalibur and a somewhat groomed lollapalooza. People were saying that Blind Ambition was spectacular, but I couldn't convince my buddy to duck in there with me, and I didn't want to hit trees alone as I don't have much tree experience.
We escaped the lines at Jordan and went over to aurora. After getting stuck on the chair for about ten minutes two chairs from unloading, we had an amazing run down Airglow. The best that trail has ever skied for me. Thanks to the delay on the chair, lines were pretty long at the aurora quad when we got back down, so we headed up the QL chair.
We took a run down escapade -> Absolutely to the North peak chair. Escapade, a victim of twice a day grooming thanks to night skiing, skied, predictably, like a groomer... yawn compared to everything else we were skiing. Jumped down Absolutely which is the bottom half of the lift line for the North Peak chair. Some nice technical bumpy skiing there, had never hit that trail before, so that was fun.
We loaded the NP chair at 11:58AM and Were almost immediately in one of the most intense snow squalls I've ever experienced. It absolutely puked for 15-20 mins, and dropped a nice half inch or so that made everything silky smooth for a few more runs.
We retreated back to the Spruce chair and had a very nice run down Amex just after the squall stopped... Bottom of amex was nicely bumped and technical. Headed back over to Barker and took a run on Right Stuff (nice, but not overly remarkable compared to everything else), then a break for Chicken Cordon Bleu Crepes (lunch) in the barker lodge, then back at it again.
T2 was pretty fun, but my Bim's Whim was outstanding.
Finished the day with a couple Obsession laps (very nice top 2/3, bottom 1/3 a bit manky).
Finished out the day with Obsession -> Heat's Off -> Wildfire -> Road Runner.
Wildfire was interesting as it went from powdery to manky, to downright springy at the bottom. Fun trail today!
Called it a day a little after 2PM with completely spent legs.
What.A.Day.
-w
p.s. I have a few pics on the cell phone, I'll post them when I can. Didn't get better pics as my gf somehow acquired my camera...
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Powder / Packed Powder / Mank
Trip Report: Had a great day skiing SR today.
Drove up last night, back and forth rain / sleet / snow from MA all the way up. Was getting nervous at all the bare ground I was seeing while driving up on 95.
Right around the bowling alley on rt. 26 it changed over to Snow and didn't go back.
The closer we got to the mountain, the deeper and deeper the snowbanks got.
Parked at Brookside and went to bed.
Out the door right around 8:00AM today (buddy overslept for first tracks... oh well, still had a great day).
Pulled the skis out of the car and had to clear about 5"-6" of wet newfallen snow off the trunk of the car... The density kind of worried me...
Started out with a run down Cascades to Barker. Cascades had been groomed the night before, was pretty wet and packed underneath with a nice coating of lighter (6-8" it seemed) stuff on top. Took the Barker quad up and hit an incredible run down Top Gun. Nice and deep and ungroomed... Got a little manky towards the bottom.
Because of that we decided to head west.
Jordan was amazing, but had pretty long lift lines. We skied one run each on an ungroomed rouge angel, ungroomed excalibur and a somewhat groomed lollapalooza. People were saying that Blind Ambition was spectacular, but I couldn't convince my buddy to duck in there with me, and I didn't want to hit trees alone as I don't have much tree experience.
We escaped the lines at Jordan and went over to aurora. After getting stuck on the chair for about ten minutes two chairs from unloading, we had an amazing run down Airglow. The best that trail has ever skied for me. Thanks to the delay on the chair, lines were pretty long at the aurora quad when we got back down, so we headed up the QL chair.
We took a run down escapade -> Absolutely to the North peak chair. Escapade, a victim of twice a day grooming thanks to night skiing, skied, predictably, like a groomer... yawn compared to everything else we were skiing. Jumped down Absolutely which is the bottom half of the lift line for the North Peak chair. Some nice technical bumpy skiing there, had never hit that trail before, so that was fun.
We loaded the NP chair at 11:58AM and Were almost immediately in one of the most intense snow squalls I've ever experienced. It absolutely puked for 15-20 mins, and dropped a nice half inch or so that made everything silky smooth for a few more runs.
We retreated back to the Spruce chair and had a very nice run down Amex just after the squall stopped... Bottom of amex was nicely bumped and technical. Headed back over to Barker and took a run on Right Stuff (nice, but not overly remarkable compared to everything else), then a break for Chicken Cordon Bleu Crepes (lunch) in the barker lodge, then back at it again.
T2 was pretty fun, but my Bim's Whim was outstanding.
Finished the day with a couple Obsession laps (very nice top 2/3, bottom 1/3 a bit manky).
Finished out the day with Obsession -> Heat's Off -> Wildfire -> Road Runner.
Wildfire was interesting as it went from powdery to manky, to downright springy at the bottom. Fun trail today!
Called it a day a little after 2PM with completely spent legs.
What.A.Day.
-w
p.s. I have a few pics on the cell phone, I'll post them when I can. Didn't get better pics as my gf somehow acquired my camera...
