Edd
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Conditions: About 12 degrees when I got there, warming to mid-20s as the day progressed. Cloudy but good visibility.
Wow! My first trip to Burke and I loved it! I got to the Sherburne Lodge about 20 minutes before the lifts started. They are on Liftopia so there are good deals to be had. Took 2 chairs to the summit and then used one chair for the rest of the day; a slow quad. I shared a lift chair one time all day.
I took a warm up run on Upper Willoughby. Smooth cord and no scratch at all. They have a pretty good snowpack; it's a winter wonderland up here. The first run was fine but nothing special. Then I hit Carriage Road, a narrow natural blue. Then I hit East Bowl, another narrow winding ungroomed trail. Then I start to realize the vast majority of the upper mountain is like this. Deer Run, Lews Leap, Wilderness, one kick-ass trail after another! I was pretty blown away and the place was dead!
I had a couple of beers for lunch at the Mid-Burke lodge; very cozy joint with a fireplace. All of the staff I dealt with were super-nice. Then I went back out and repeated some of my runs and found a couple of new ones. Sometimes I had trouble reconciling the trail map with where I was skiing. It didn't matter, though. The place is like a natural trail paradise. I didn't have one bad run. East Bowl is one of the funnest trails I've skied in the east.
I skied hard at Cannon the day before and skied even harder here. By 2:15 I was dead and skied back to the main lodge for the first time all day. The place was loaded with kids. I was glad because I want the place to do SOME business. If you had parked at the mid-lodge you would never have known there were a bunch of kids skiing there.
This mountain strikes me as a viable alternative to Jay. It's not as extreme but there are plenty of trees, gotta be less crowded and less scratched off, and it's like an hour closer.
Sorry, I have decent pics but I can't seem to upload them to my albums anymore. I guess they have to be resized now. Too computer stupid to deal with it.
Go to Burke!
Wow! My first trip to Burke and I loved it! I got to the Sherburne Lodge about 20 minutes before the lifts started. They are on Liftopia so there are good deals to be had. Took 2 chairs to the summit and then used one chair for the rest of the day; a slow quad. I shared a lift chair one time all day.
I took a warm up run on Upper Willoughby. Smooth cord and no scratch at all. They have a pretty good snowpack; it's a winter wonderland up here. The first run was fine but nothing special. Then I hit Carriage Road, a narrow natural blue. Then I hit East Bowl, another narrow winding ungroomed trail. Then I start to realize the vast majority of the upper mountain is like this. Deer Run, Lews Leap, Wilderness, one kick-ass trail after another! I was pretty blown away and the place was dead!
I had a couple of beers for lunch at the Mid-Burke lodge; very cozy joint with a fireplace. All of the staff I dealt with were super-nice. Then I went back out and repeated some of my runs and found a couple of new ones. Sometimes I had trouble reconciling the trail map with where I was skiing. It didn't matter, though. The place is like a natural trail paradise. I didn't have one bad run. East Bowl is one of the funnest trails I've skied in the east.
I skied hard at Cannon the day before and skied even harder here. By 2:15 I was dead and skied back to the main lodge for the first time all day. The place was loaded with kids. I was glad because I want the place to do SOME business. If you had parked at the mid-lodge you would never have known there were a bunch of kids skiing there.
This mountain strikes me as a viable alternative to Jay. It's not as extreme but there are plenty of trees, gotta be less crowded and less scratched off, and it's like an hour closer.
Sorry, I have decent pics but I can't seem to upload them to my albums anymore. I guess they have to be resized now. Too computer stupid to deal with it.
Go to Burke!
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