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Mad River Glen 4/5/2008

eatskisleep

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Date(s) Skied: April 5th, 2008

Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen

Conditions: Spring Conditions, icy in the morning, then corn by the aftenoon in spots, fairly soft snow all around.

Trip Report: This was my first time at Mad River Glen, I let Austin talk me into it for a day trip.I met up with Austin just after 7 (about 15 minutes late due to onle one lane being open in the tunnel trhough Boston) then we were on our way. We arrived before 10 and there was a slight drizzle. About an inch or two of snow had fallen previously but it was covered by a fairly hard crust. Fog, lots of fog, really low fog. We met up with Steve and skied the whole day with him. First run down Chute then over to Canyon, fun stuff!Skied mainly all bumps in the morning, then woods/bumps in the afternoon. Seems like a great mountain, constant pitch, excellent woods, great skiers, family atmosphere. The skiers here don't care what you are skiing on but instead how you are skiing. I'll be back.

BTW, I think Steve did a much better job with the detailed trip report which you can read here:
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6716

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Here is a shot Steve got of me that I really liked (Thanks! PS I hosted it on flickr so it would use some of your bandwith)
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As you can see, there were really long lift lines, probably the longest I have ever seen them:
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Steve:
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Three Cliffs Area
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I got this shot from the single chair looking down on a skier below me. I thought it came out pretty good, not bad timing guess:
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Midstation
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eatskisleep

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The sun came out for a few minutes:
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Cool base area:
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One of the things that blew me away about MRG is the ammount of cliff bands there are here, very sick:
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Steve ripping up the steeps:
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Austin catching some air (wipe out not shown in photo :) ):
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Random tele skier:
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awf170

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Austin catching some air (wipe out not shown in photo :) ):
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Nice... I am so rad. :wink: I can't remember, did that end in a complete wreck or just a sort of butt slide? :lol:

Anyway, nice pics!
 
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