loafer89
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Area skied: Bromley, Vermont
Date skied: January 4th, 2009 from 9:00am - 2:00pm
Surface conditions: Machine groomed, packed powder, hardpacked, icy patches
Weather: Sunny and windy, 12F base at 9:00am
Warren and I made it up to Bromley for our first day of skiing in 2009 and my son's first time at the mountain. I had a free voucher for skiing and yesterday was a Connecticut skier appreciation day at Bromley so Warren skied for $35.00.
We arrived at 8:30 am to a mountain with strong gusty winds at the base and the Sun Mountain Express HSQ on wind hold. The forecast was for diminishing winds, so we got our tickets and booted up.
Our first run was off the Sun Chair and down Pabst Peril which was groomed to perfection with noisy corduroy snow. We took the Blue Ribbon Quad up to the summit which had extremely brutal windchill's and was very cold and uncomfortable. Departing Ice Station Zebra, we skied down a groomed Upper Twister to Sunset Pass and then to Upper and Lower Thruway. Conditons where groomed with pockets of wind blown powder in spots. Lower Thruway was slick as the wind had blown off most of the snow to reveal some ice.
We skied off the now opened Sun Mountain Express and took two runs down Run Around #1/Upper Thruway/Run Around #2/Lower Boulevard which had great groomed packed powder, especially on Lower Boulevard which had freshly blown new snow.
A top to bottom run down Upper Twister/Route 100/Lower Twister was for the most part enjoyable if a bit firm and scratchy in spots.
We skied off the Alpine Chair and took Yodeler down to the Blue ribbon Quad. The trail was horrible at the top with wind blown exposed ice and poor visibility in blowing snow.
Havoc was next and the trail had insane amounts of manmade snow on it with huge/gigantic whales of snow and packed powder moguls peppered in between them, we got quite a workout on that trail, but had fun.
The ROTD was Avalanche, which had 100% natural snow and some nice packed powder moguls with only a few annoying icy spots. We liked it so much we skied it twice in a row.
Date skied: January 4th, 2009 from 9:00am - 2:00pm
Surface conditions: Machine groomed, packed powder, hardpacked, icy patches
Weather: Sunny and windy, 12F base at 9:00am
Warren and I made it up to Bromley for our first day of skiing in 2009 and my son's first time at the mountain. I had a free voucher for skiing and yesterday was a Connecticut skier appreciation day at Bromley so Warren skied for $35.00.
We arrived at 8:30 am to a mountain with strong gusty winds at the base and the Sun Mountain Express HSQ on wind hold. The forecast was for diminishing winds, so we got our tickets and booted up.
Our first run was off the Sun Chair and down Pabst Peril which was groomed to perfection with noisy corduroy snow. We took the Blue Ribbon Quad up to the summit which had extremely brutal windchill's and was very cold and uncomfortable. Departing Ice Station Zebra, we skied down a groomed Upper Twister to Sunset Pass and then to Upper and Lower Thruway. Conditons where groomed with pockets of wind blown powder in spots. Lower Thruway was slick as the wind had blown off most of the snow to reveal some ice.
We skied off the now opened Sun Mountain Express and took two runs down Run Around #1/Upper Thruway/Run Around #2/Lower Boulevard which had great groomed packed powder, especially on Lower Boulevard which had freshly blown new snow.
A top to bottom run down Upper Twister/Route 100/Lower Twister was for the most part enjoyable if a bit firm and scratchy in spots.
We skied off the Alpine Chair and took Yodeler down to the Blue ribbon Quad. The trail was horrible at the top with wind blown exposed ice and poor visibility in blowing snow.
Havoc was next and the trail had insane amounts of manmade snow on it with huge/gigantic whales of snow and packed powder moguls peppered in between them, we got quite a workout on that trail, but had fun.
The ROTD was Avalanche, which had 100% natural snow and some nice packed powder moguls with only a few annoying icy spots. We liked it so much we skied it twice in a row.
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