Burke 2/17/11

[Zand]

Date(s) Skied: Thursday 2/17/11

Resort or Ski Area: Burke, VT

Conditions: Soft PP, "stopped in your tracks" sticky on untouched stuff, sunny, upper 40s

Trip Report:

Great spring preview at Burke today. Hit Dougs a couple times, Birches, Jungle, Bear Den, Fox's, and the park at the bottom a couple of times. Dougs had some nice bump lines popping up, both on the initial steep as well as quite a few lines down low. Bear Den had some bumps starting to form, hopefully they'll mature some more by springtime. Fox's was fun... a few bumps and everything's pretty well covered except the usual bigger boulders. Birches and Jungle are well covered, but the untouched stuff was incredibly sticky. You'd seriously come right to a halt if you got in any of it. Therefore, it was the opposite of a normal glade run as you were actually looking for the tracked areas rather than untracked. Park was in good shape if you're into that kind of stuff. Everything after the first jump was too big for me lol.

I'll likely be at Cannon for about an hour tomorrow afternoon as a pit stop on my way back to MA... hoping to find some soft stuff on the Front 5.

 

[thetrailboss]

Thanks for the report. Sounds like snow cover is great.

 

[Cannonball]

I'll likely be at Cannon for about an hour tomorrow afternoon as a pit stop on my way back to MA... hoping to find some soft stuff on the Front 5.

Nice report as usual.

EVERYTHING was soft at Cannon today and will likely be the same tomorrow. Although there will be less sun, so I'm not sure it will get quite as spring like. I was only there for a short time but covered a fair amount of ground (Vistaway, Banshee, Upper Cannon, Avalanche, Taft, Hardscrabble). From that sampling it's fair to say that it was wall-to-wall spring....but with full on coverage.

I hear you on the sticky untouched. I did a few miles of rolling XC tour with the dog this afternoon. There are sections that are dangerously steep for the XCs so I usually veer off into the pow for speed control. Today that threw me over the handlebars a few times. So I had to suck it up and luge it in the track! (helmet required next time)