from_the_NEK
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Hit Burke for the last afternoon of the season. Got to the parking lot at 1:00 to find 15 cars. Met up with a friend and headed over to the lift. Unfortunately, Burke has not benefited from the late season snow squals the other nothern Green Mtns have been getting. There was only an inch of new snow above 2000 feet. Meanwhile Jay, Stowe, and Sugarbush were all reporting 6+ inches. Oh-well, I have seen closing days with both way more and way less coverage at Burke.
The trail report was not very inspiring as a lot of the natural cover trails had been closed down and only one glade remained. The man-made trails were still very well covered. No thin spots on any of them except for Darling Point on Willoughby (and that only consisted of twigs poking up through the snowpack). The surface was decent corn that was getting pushed into deeper piles on the trails making high speed turns a bit interesting. It is hard to say if they had groomed the night before. but judging by the utter lack of skiers on the mtn and the condition of the surface I would say they decided not to spend the money. That is fine with me
East Bowl has held up extremely well despite no snow making. There were only a few holes in the trail on the very last pitch.
We stuck mostly to the man made trails. However, Wilderness skied quite well as the bumps had finally started to return to form.
Sasquatch was an icy luge run through the spruces. That was the only tree run we did.
Dippers skied fanatastic despite the lack of overnight grooming. Second to last run we ducked the rope onto Doug's Drop. I had been eying it from the bottom and it definitel looked skiable. There was some mandatory route finding over the band of rocks at teh bottom as we merged into Lower Dougs. Lower Dougs was great even though the last pitch had a lot of holes in it. It was fun to catch air off the bumps over the non-snow sections. The route finding added a fun element to the day.
Waited for a couple of extra minutes at the bottom to catch the last chair (I had to hold up TrailBoss's tradition). Three of us on the last ride. Me, Rik, and the same kid that rode with TrailBoss and I last year. LAst run was down Warren's Rik brought two beers and we parked ourselves at the top of Warren's with the view of the NEK spread out before us (note: the view was mostly obscured by snow showers and clouds) and cracked open the beers :beer:. We were about 1/2 way through the beers when patrol rolled up doing sweep. We had to go down. I headed down pounding the beer as I went. Drinking beer out of a bottle while sking 30mph on uneven corn snow is NOT good for teeth:dunce: I only had a few sips left at the bottom. Had a good year. I really could have used one more powder day but who knew March was going to be such a let down. I'll be back next year
Hit Burke for the last afternoon of the season. Got to the parking lot at 1:00 to find 15 cars. Met up with a friend and headed over to the lift. Unfortunately, Burke has not benefited from the late season snow squals the other nothern Green Mtns have been getting. There was only an inch of new snow above 2000 feet. Meanwhile Jay, Stowe, and Sugarbush were all reporting 6+ inches. Oh-well, I have seen closing days with both way more and way less coverage at Burke.
The trail report was not very inspiring as a lot of the natural cover trails had been closed down and only one glade remained. The man-made trails were still very well covered. No thin spots on any of them except for Darling Point on Willoughby (and that only consisted of twigs poking up through the snowpack). The surface was decent corn that was getting pushed into deeper piles on the trails making high speed turns a bit interesting. It is hard to say if they had groomed the night before. but judging by the utter lack of skiers on the mtn and the condition of the surface I would say they decided not to spend the money. That is fine with me
East Bowl has held up extremely well despite no snow making. There were only a few holes in the trail on the very last pitch.
We stuck mostly to the man made trails. However, Wilderness skied quite well as the bumps had finally started to return to form.
Sasquatch was an icy luge run through the spruces. That was the only tree run we did.
Dippers skied fanatastic despite the lack of overnight grooming. Second to last run we ducked the rope onto Doug's Drop. I had been eying it from the bottom and it definitel looked skiable. There was some mandatory route finding over the band of rocks at teh bottom as we merged into Lower Dougs. Lower Dougs was great even though the last pitch had a lot of holes in it. It was fun to catch air off the bumps over the non-snow sections. The route finding added a fun element to the day.
Waited for a couple of extra minutes at the bottom to catch the last chair (I had to hold up TrailBoss's tradition). Three of us on the last ride. Me, Rik, and the same kid that rode with TrailBoss and I last year. LAst run was down Warren's Rik brought two beers and we parked ourselves at the top of Warren's with the view of the NEK spread out before us (note: the view was mostly obscured by snow showers and clouds) and cracked open the beers :beer:. We were about 1/2 way through the beers when patrol rolled up doing sweep. We had to go down. I headed down pounding the beer as I went. Drinking beer out of a bottle while sking 30mph on uneven corn snow is NOT good for teeth:dunce: I only had a few sips left at the bottom. Had a good year. I really could have used one more powder day but who knew March was going to be such a let down. I'll be back next year
