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Date(s) Skied: 3/11/2015
Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen
Conditions: soft to mushy
Trip Report:
I haven't been to MRG a lot of times and it had been over a decade, so my ski buddy John and I decided to fix that. Place always kicks my ass good and solid and this day was no exception; my lack of exercise this winter didn't help. They'd groomed the greens and most of the blues, but everything else was big soft bumps. Some of them too soft; twice I dropped into a gully and my ski went right into the bump and got stuck, causing me to eject. One of those times I managed to fall on my pole and bend it, so now I have one straight pole and one racing pole. Paradise was fun, though a lot more open than I remembered (hurricane damage, right?); I said "Wait, is this the right place? Oh look, here's the cliff, it's Paradise!" Snow was kind of sticky in places; John had brought some paste wax which he put on our skis and it helped a lot.
I have a bad habit of pushing myself onto harder trails even when I really need to take a break on some cruisers. Suppose that's better for my skiing than only skiing the cruisers, as I used to do. My knees and feet went on strike around 3 and I decided to hit the pub while John did a couple last runs.
We had stopped at the Warren Store on the way up looking for Heady Topper and failed, so we went home via Waterbury and hit the stores there, with great success. I had originally found that stuff at the Warren Store when I'd been looking for Lawson's Liquids (which they get once a week and it sells out instantly), and now it's become nearly as much of an unfindable cult beer. But, we discovered that General Stark's Pub has Lawson's on tap. Yum!
Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen
Conditions: soft to mushy
Trip Report:
I haven't been to MRG a lot of times and it had been over a decade, so my ski buddy John and I decided to fix that. Place always kicks my ass good and solid and this day was no exception; my lack of exercise this winter didn't help. They'd groomed the greens and most of the blues, but everything else was big soft bumps. Some of them too soft; twice I dropped into a gully and my ski went right into the bump and got stuck, causing me to eject. One of those times I managed to fall on my pole and bend it, so now I have one straight pole and one racing pole. Paradise was fun, though a lot more open than I remembered (hurricane damage, right?); I said "Wait, is this the right place? Oh look, here's the cliff, it's Paradise!" Snow was kind of sticky in places; John had brought some paste wax which he put on our skis and it helped a lot.
I have a bad habit of pushing myself onto harder trails even when I really need to take a break on some cruisers. Suppose that's better for my skiing than only skiing the cruisers, as I used to do. My knees and feet went on strike around 3 and I decided to hit the pub while John did a couple last runs.
We had stopped at the Warren Store on the way up looking for Heady Topper and failed, so we went home via Waterbury and hit the stores there, with great success. I had originally found that stuff at the Warren Store when I'd been looking for Lawson's Liquids (which they get once a week and it sells out instantly), and now it's become nearly as much of an unfindable cult beer. But, we discovered that General Stark's Pub has Lawson's on tap. Yum!