am i the only one counting the hours till tomarro morning?

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[Vortex]

1 hour 10 min till I leave. I know have the anticipation everyone else had yesterday. Patience is not a word that applies to me.... tic toc is right

 

[cyrk007]

welp... went to mount snow..got first tracks at carrinthia.. was like the 5th person down..then when they opened the summit and later northface i was the one of the first people down.. so tired.. popping a beer :beer:

 

[Jay Levitt]

Well, I made it to Sunapee by, er, 2pm. (I actually woke up early but then frittered the morning away doing icky stuff like work...) That turned out to be OK, because my new hour-a-day cardio training regimen has left my legs useless today.

Turns out that over the course of the morning, nearly all the front-side lifts were put on wind hold, so the only way to the summit was taking a short lift to the top of Eggbeater, then waiting 15 minutes for a snowcat with a people-trailer so we could get a hayride over to the Sun Bowl. The place was empty; surprisingly, most of the folks I talked to were locals. Oddly, the big half-pipe was also closed; I can't imagine there's much wind there, and this led one skier to complain that Sunapee was merely saving all the good snow for the weekend.

I only had time for two runs. First, I went down Wing Ding. This was my first time ever skiing with any powder, and it was interesting. People keep telling me that powder skiing is far easier than typical East Coast skiing, but I can only imagine they're talking about a mountain where the whole surface is powder. Rapidly shifting from a foot of loose powder to tightly packed, mid-turn, certainly made the day interesting... is it my imagination, or perhaps my poor technique, or does powder require even stronger quads?

To get back to the base, I went up again and took Ridge. This face of the mountain was seriously blustery, and much of the powder at the top was blown clean, so I quickly had to remember how to ski on crust. Zipped down better than I've ever skied, lost total use of my thighs about halfway down, and somehow managed to stay upright to the parking lot.

 

[hammer]

Thanks for the mini-report, Jay. I'll be at Sunapee on Sunday and hopefully they'll groom things up between now and then.

I know that you weren't there long, but did you have any chances to see how the gladed trails looked? The snow report says that all trails are open, but I'll definitely stay away from the trees if the cover is thin.

 

[Jay Levitt]

The one glade I saw from the lift, which I presume was Sunrise Glade or Hawes's Hideout, looked fine to my novice eyes - people were leaving maybe 6" tracks in the powder. Sunapee does seem to mark "thin cover" trails at the top, not just on the #$(* whiteboards like Sugarloaf; I saw Elliott marked off with orange "expert only" sticks for thin cover.

 

[ALLSKIING]

welp... went to mount snow..got first tracks at carrinthia.. was like the 5th person down..then when they opened the summit and later northface i was the one of the first people down.. so tired.. popping a beer :beer:

I was there on Fri...No more fresh lines, but lots of snow