rocks860
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Conditions: powder, crusty, bulletproof, corn
Drove up to sugarbush for the day for one last day at the bush for this year. All in all spent about 8 days there this year ranging from the saturday after Christmas until now. Got up there around 930 and headed for a quick run down sleeper before heading over to bravo and heaven's gate. The snow on sleeper was quite firm and chunky so it was super fast but a very bumpy ride. Took paradise off of heaven's gate as ripcord was completely packed with people and sounded like it was already very scratchy. Ended up in the woods of paradise and holy crap was there a lot of snow. They really weren't kidding about the 6 inches they got on Thursday. After making my way down through there very slowly and ending up on the runout from castlerock onto ripcord i went over to slide brook and took a trip over to mount ellen. Unfortunately the summit lift went down just as I was arriving and never came back up. First run took a trip down lower fis and wasn't really expecting much so I wasn't too disappointed. There was a decent amount of snow by that trails standards but it was very very firm. After that headed up north ridge which was amazingly running and took exterminator/lower exterminator. This was apparently where they were hiding all the snow as it was powdery bumps and chopped up powder all the way down. Definitely one of the runs off the day. After a few more runs at mount ellen I headed back to Lincoln peak for a late lunch. After lunch headed back up to heaven's gate and decided to give organ grinder a try. Similar to exterminator there was a TON of snow on this trail and it skied great. Took another run up and went jester down to snowball. The snow here wasn't terrible but definitely very firm. Decided to take one last run down lower organ grinder and it was super icy and my legs were toast so I decided to call it a day. Overall it was a fantastic day for the end of March.
Runs of the day- exterminator/lower exterminator/organ grinder. Pictures to follow
Drove up to sugarbush for the day for one last day at the bush for this year. All in all spent about 8 days there this year ranging from the saturday after Christmas until now. Got up there around 930 and headed for a quick run down sleeper before heading over to bravo and heaven's gate. The snow on sleeper was quite firm and chunky so it was super fast but a very bumpy ride. Took paradise off of heaven's gate as ripcord was completely packed with people and sounded like it was already very scratchy. Ended up in the woods of paradise and holy crap was there a lot of snow. They really weren't kidding about the 6 inches they got on Thursday. After making my way down through there very slowly and ending up on the runout from castlerock onto ripcord i went over to slide brook and took a trip over to mount ellen. Unfortunately the summit lift went down just as I was arriving and never came back up. First run took a trip down lower fis and wasn't really expecting much so I wasn't too disappointed. There was a decent amount of snow by that trails standards but it was very very firm. After that headed up north ridge which was amazingly running and took exterminator/lower exterminator. This was apparently where they were hiding all the snow as it was powdery bumps and chopped up powder all the way down. Definitely one of the runs off the day. After a few more runs at mount ellen I headed back to Lincoln peak for a late lunch. After lunch headed back up to heaven's gate and decided to give organ grinder a try. Similar to exterminator there was a TON of snow on this trail and it skied great. Took another run up and went jester down to snowball. The snow here wasn't terrible but definitely very firm. Decided to take one last run down lower organ grinder and it was super icy and my legs were toast so I decided to call it a day. Overall it was a fantastic day for the end of March.
Runs of the day- exterminator/lower exterminator/organ grinder. Pictures to follow
