BeanoNYC
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My friends and I got up to Killington Friday night. I was quite pleased with the amount of snow they had apparently received during the day. I met up with ALLSKIING and his cousin Tom for a quick cocktail at the lookout at 11 and we were back at the motel, ready for an early rise by midnight.
We were out of the motel by a quarter to 7 for a quick breakfast and in the lot by 7:30. While I was booting up, I grabbed my radio to contact Dave, but the battery was dead. :???: As I was grabbing third chair on the Snowdon quad I saw Dave getting on line. A quick yell to Dave to meet us at the top of the lift got the 5 of us together! It turns out that Dave and Tom snuck onto the Gondola for first tracks warmup run. Being that the report was 20 inches the day before we immediately swung over to Vagabond to catch some ungroomed powder. The trail was in good condition with heavy powder over bumps. Second run was down mouse to mousetrap to chute. (Upper bunny buster was closed for races) Mousetrap had some small fluffy bumps and chute was groomed and fast. On my way down chute, a skiier on Great Northern crossover decided to stop right in front of me without looking uphill to make sure noone was coming down, leaving me with no time to turn. I was going at a good clip and was able to avoid full contact, kind of, bailing out and brushing him. YARDSALE... I was ok, but I rang by bell pretty hard, thank goodness I had my helmet.
We took the Snowdon quad again and skied over to the North Ridge Triple. We went down powerline which was incredible with huge soft bumps and drifts. Back up the lift, we decided to see if the south ridge triple was open. Sure enough it was. We went down the jug which had some good powder but was thin at some points. At the junction of Jug and Jug Handle I hit a huge rock, slid the wrong way and came out of my ski. After numerous attempts in the soft snow, I finally got my ski back on and slowly picked my way down Jug Handle with the crew waiting at the bottom for my arrival.
Back up the South Ridge Triple, we then took Pipe dream all the way down. The powder was nice, but very heavy with a spring liked mashed potato feel to it. We took the SRT back up and the oddest thing happened to me while exiting the chairlift...I WAS STUCK!!! A strap from my backpack had made it's way around the back of the chair and I swung around starting to download! The liftie stopped the lift and helped untangle me while my "friends" heckled me and took pictures. As it turned out, Dave had lost his camera (He found this out while looking for it as I flailed on the lift.) Sorry to hear that, Dave...I hope it turned up in lost and found.
My friends wanted to hit Cascade, so we planned on meeting at the lodge. Dave and I went down East Fall while Tom headed down some other way. The black portion of East Fall was great! Some nice, soft bumps...not too skied off. Went into the lodge for a quick break. We had plans to meet up with some friends for lunch over at Ramshead so I bid Dave and Tom adieu and we hit Superstar (wonderful soft bumps) then down Great Eastern to snowshed crossover down snowshed, through the tunnel to Ramshead.
We had about 45 minutes to kill before our meet up time so we took a few runs on Ramshead popping into some unmarked trees the first run on our way down header and second run down squeeze play. All the glades on Ramshead were real nice with fluffy deep powder.
After lunch we headed over to Bear Mountain. Mashed potato bumps all around...after three or four runs we called it quits and got back on the road to NY by 4:30.
Great day, although luck didn't seem to be on my side in the beginning. Great seeing you and Tom again, Dave. We'll do it again real soon!
We were out of the motel by a quarter to 7 for a quick breakfast and in the lot by 7:30. While I was booting up, I grabbed my radio to contact Dave, but the battery was dead. :???: As I was grabbing third chair on the Snowdon quad I saw Dave getting on line. A quick yell to Dave to meet us at the top of the lift got the 5 of us together! It turns out that Dave and Tom snuck onto the Gondola for first tracks warmup run. Being that the report was 20 inches the day before we immediately swung over to Vagabond to catch some ungroomed powder. The trail was in good condition with heavy powder over bumps. Second run was down mouse to mousetrap to chute. (Upper bunny buster was closed for races) Mousetrap had some small fluffy bumps and chute was groomed and fast. On my way down chute, a skiier on Great Northern crossover decided to stop right in front of me without looking uphill to make sure noone was coming down, leaving me with no time to turn. I was going at a good clip and was able to avoid full contact, kind of, bailing out and brushing him. YARDSALE... I was ok, but I rang by bell pretty hard, thank goodness I had my helmet.
We took the Snowdon quad again and skied over to the North Ridge Triple. We went down powerline which was incredible with huge soft bumps and drifts. Back up the lift, we decided to see if the south ridge triple was open. Sure enough it was. We went down the jug which had some good powder but was thin at some points. At the junction of Jug and Jug Handle I hit a huge rock, slid the wrong way and came out of my ski. After numerous attempts in the soft snow, I finally got my ski back on and slowly picked my way down Jug Handle with the crew waiting at the bottom for my arrival.
Back up the South Ridge Triple, we then took Pipe dream all the way down. The powder was nice, but very heavy with a spring liked mashed potato feel to it. We took the SRT back up and the oddest thing happened to me while exiting the chairlift...I WAS STUCK!!! A strap from my backpack had made it's way around the back of the chair and I swung around starting to download! The liftie stopped the lift and helped untangle me while my "friends" heckled me and took pictures. As it turned out, Dave had lost his camera (He found this out while looking for it as I flailed on the lift.) Sorry to hear that, Dave...I hope it turned up in lost and found.
My friends wanted to hit Cascade, so we planned on meeting at the lodge. Dave and I went down East Fall while Tom headed down some other way. The black portion of East Fall was great! Some nice, soft bumps...not too skied off. Went into the lodge for a quick break. We had plans to meet up with some friends for lunch over at Ramshead so I bid Dave and Tom adieu and we hit Superstar (wonderful soft bumps) then down Great Eastern to snowshed crossover down snowshed, through the tunnel to Ramshead.
We had about 45 minutes to kill before our meet up time so we took a few runs on Ramshead popping into some unmarked trees the first run on our way down header and second run down squeeze play. All the glades on Ramshead were real nice with fluffy deep powder.
After lunch we headed over to Bear Mountain. Mashed potato bumps all around...after three or four runs we called it quits and got back on the road to NY by 4:30.
Great day, although luck didn't seem to be on my side in the beginning. Great seeing you and Tom again, Dave. We'll do it again real soon!
(where's the pics?)
