Rowsdower
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If you wanted the goods in the Catskills then last weekend was the time to get em'.
Started out Saturday at Belleayre to get a hike in to Cathedral Brook which rode amazingly well. Soft bumped packed pow on the upper half and thigh deep powder on the lower half. Only looked like half a dozen or so people skied all the way down, so there was a lot of powder to be had. Rode all the way down and hiked back up to Super Chief. Checked out the glades around Tongora and the Belleayre Glades which were more fun and in better shape than the high pitch trees. Really most of the steeps seemed to be getting skied off and by then it was snowing pretty heavily, so we packed up and grabbed pizza in Woodstock. The other half spent the day on the lower mountain and is probably good enough to tackle things top to bottom, we just got to get her on the lift
Sunday we woke up to sun and six inches of fresh snow on the way up to Platty. Lines were uncharacteristically long and they were parking cars all the way down the access road. Nuts. People really were getting after it. The conditions were about all you could ask for during a roller coaster year like this: deep enough base to fill in just about anything and some powder on top to soften everything up. Run of the day was Cliffs and Bridge Drop. Blockbuster was nice and soft as well. After noon it started to warm up. Turned in for a beer in the lodge to cap off a perfect day.
Started out Saturday at Belleayre to get a hike in to Cathedral Brook which rode amazingly well. Soft bumped packed pow on the upper half and thigh deep powder on the lower half. Only looked like half a dozen or so people skied all the way down, so there was a lot of powder to be had. Rode all the way down and hiked back up to Super Chief. Checked out the glades around Tongora and the Belleayre Glades which were more fun and in better shape than the high pitch trees. Really most of the steeps seemed to be getting skied off and by then it was snowing pretty heavily, so we packed up and grabbed pizza in Woodstock. The other half spent the day on the lower mountain and is probably good enough to tackle things top to bottom, we just got to get her on the lift
Sunday we woke up to sun and six inches of fresh snow on the way up to Platty. Lines were uncharacteristically long and they were parking cars all the way down the access road. Nuts. People really were getting after it. The conditions were about all you could ask for during a roller coaster year like this: deep enough base to fill in just about anything and some powder on top to soften everything up. Run of the day was Cliffs and Bridge Drop. Blockbuster was nice and soft as well. After noon it started to warm up. Turned in for a beer in the lodge to cap off a perfect day.
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