Cornhead
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Date(s) Skied: 12/13/13
Resort or Ski Area: Snow Ridge
Conditions: Powder, tons o powder
Trip Report:
After watching radar all week of copious amounts of snow dumping on tiny little Snow Ridge in Central NY, I couldn't resist driving up to see, and ski, for myself. I got there fifteen minutes before the scheduled opening, ten O'clock. They delayed this until about 10:30, since they had to clear the additional twenty inches of snow that fell overnight from the chairs. This is twenty inches on top of the 47 that fell in the previous two days, FIVE AND A HALF FEET OF SNOW! I picked up my lift ticket, $15 with my Greek Peak discount, they were only charging $22 to the general public, and took my place in the line forming at the lift. As I rode the chair I witnessed people stuck dead in their tracks as they tried to ski a good four feet of settled snow on the moderately pitched slope. Funny as hell, until it's you who are stuck in the middle of the trail, as I'd discover on my second run. They had two groomer length swaths groomed on North and South Slope trails. My first run, North Slope, I ventured off the groomed path, then just skied the path to the base. My second run I decided to ski South Slope, I followed a swath to what is usually the terrain park. The swath came to an end, I continued, for about a hundred yards. At this point I was stuck, a good fifty yards from the groomed section on the edge of the trail. It took me fifteen minutes to work my way there. I was grateful a heart attack was not induced by my struggle.
As things got cut up a bit, they skied much better. There were some nice steep trees skiers left from the top that had enough pitch to actually ski too. One trail, Headwall? had a nice cliff drop. I was up hill of a guy who popped it, spun, hit an overhanging branch of a tree on the edge of the cliff with the bases of his skis, and disappeared. He must have been twenty feet off the ground. He didn't stick his landing, and couldn't find one of his skis. He may have to wait till Spring! Throughout the day there were ski patrol all over the hill helping people look for their submerged skis.
It was a surreal experience, one of the most memorable ski days of my life. I could only imagine what it would have been like if this much snow were to fall on a place like Whiteface, of course they'd be on wind hold.:wink:
My 125cm, 4ft ski pole,just below the grip.
Headwall, the guy in the left is the one who hucked the cliff and lost his ski, the drop is just in front of them.
Resort or Ski Area: Snow Ridge
Conditions: Powder, tons o powder
Trip Report:
After watching radar all week of copious amounts of snow dumping on tiny little Snow Ridge in Central NY, I couldn't resist driving up to see, and ski, for myself. I got there fifteen minutes before the scheduled opening, ten O'clock. They delayed this until about 10:30, since they had to clear the additional twenty inches of snow that fell overnight from the chairs. This is twenty inches on top of the 47 that fell in the previous two days, FIVE AND A HALF FEET OF SNOW! I picked up my lift ticket, $15 with my Greek Peak discount, they were only charging $22 to the general public, and took my place in the line forming at the lift. As I rode the chair I witnessed people stuck dead in their tracks as they tried to ski a good four feet of settled snow on the moderately pitched slope. Funny as hell, until it's you who are stuck in the middle of the trail, as I'd discover on my second run. They had two groomer length swaths groomed on North and South Slope trails. My first run, North Slope, I ventured off the groomed path, then just skied the path to the base. My second run I decided to ski South Slope, I followed a swath to what is usually the terrain park. The swath came to an end, I continued, for about a hundred yards. At this point I was stuck, a good fifty yards from the groomed section on the edge of the trail. It took me fifteen minutes to work my way there. I was grateful a heart attack was not induced by my struggle.
As things got cut up a bit, they skied much better. There were some nice steep trees skiers left from the top that had enough pitch to actually ski too. One trail, Headwall? had a nice cliff drop. I was up hill of a guy who popped it, spun, hit an overhanging branch of a tree on the edge of the cliff with the bases of his skis, and disappeared. He must have been twenty feet off the ground. He didn't stick his landing, and couldn't find one of his skis. He may have to wait till Spring! Throughout the day there were ski patrol all over the hill helping people look for their submerged skis.
It was a surreal experience, one of the most memorable ski days of my life. I could only imagine what it would have been like if this much snow were to fall on a place like Whiteface, of course they'd be on wind hold.:wink:
My 125cm, 4ft ski pole,just below the grip.
Headwall, the guy in the left is the one who hucked the cliff and lost his ski, the drop is just in front of them.
