billski
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Happiness is waking to the snowplow go by!
Sorry, nfoapd
ttfn!
Sorry, nfoapd
ttfn!
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Bush 2/3 2/4
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billski
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Unfreakincredible
fresh tracks until ten. Castlerock was orgasmictastic.
96under foot was perfect.
Friday was completly opposite.
first foray into woods was pretty good. Back at the race course I needed my 70s uf.
Opened r
the base lift and castlerock.
No pics on a powder day.
The skiing sux. Skip sunday and get home.
P
skip sunday And get home early. Beat the rush.
fresh tracks until ten. Castlerock was orgasmictastic.
96under foot was perfect.
Friday was completly opposite.
first foray into woods was pretty good. Back at the race course I needed my 70s uf.
Opened r
the base lift and castlerock.
No pics on a powder day.
The skiing sux. Skip sunday and get home.
P
skip sunday And get home early. Beat the rush.
Lol; good to see the skiing is holding up in that corner; strongly considering the Stowe or Smuggs daytrip on Saturday (probably $teaux as it would give me some extra time to get to the pickup) and will book in a couple days if nothing comes up. Still, we need a major storm to blanket New England though!
billski
Active member
Brutally Honest 3 day report
Sugarbush on Friday- frozen granular, all over. Groomed FGR OK till noon. This was with very light traffic. Indeed all the trails were open, but most of the challenging stuff , blue or black, had "experts only" marked at the entrance. Did lots of groomer stuff, used my 70 under foot, worked OK. Went to closing bell. Hitting any bumps was a challenge for even the best of sharp edges. While we had fun, it could have been a lot better. I ran several NASTAR runs to keep myself entertained when I bored of the trails. The course was in good shape, except for one large section of solid ice. It was ski on/off all lifts, to be expected. Bush chopped it up with the groomers, but it was pounded slick after about three hours. We did a couple of blacks, but they didn't get to be enjoyable until Saturday.
Sugarbush on Saturday - 2" fell over night. If this was last season, it would have been laughable. Knew it would be chewed solid in a couple hours. Hit the groomers at the opening bell. It was only windy from until about 8-9am. Hit the main trails at the opening bell. It was soo good, compared to the crap from the day before. Fresh tracks, maybe 2-4" felt good. I brought out the 96 under foot a good choice. Now, I started to hit some of the bump runs, which the day before had been frozen volkswagons. The snow between the moguls was nice, anywhere from about three inches to boot deep. I knew it would be short lived, so I just pounded them up.
I shot over to Castle rock for the opening chair. Egads, was that great. Man, I was blasting pow and first tracks all over the place. Even the ugly bumps skied well. Just stay off the mogul tips and you are fine.
About that time WWF met up with me and we went for a couple of cruises down some likely targets. Don't ask me names. I don't look and I don't remember. WWF then suggested we check out some woods. With the new snow, and the lack of tracks in there it was actually pretty good. Note to self, follow your buddy. I didn't and ended up dead-ended out of bounds in serious knarly. Had to book pack/post hole my way out. Good cardio. Snow had a nice fluff on top, some breakable crust and then about two feed of soft snow under it. I would go back and do it again, so decide for yourself.
By the afternoon, the complexion of the slopes changed entirely. I was back to 70mm under foot which made things edge-able. Back to the Nastar course. It was all scraped down from racers earlier that day. No ruts or anything for this weakling to dig into. That was very telling of how the main trails were.
Today, Mad River.
So exhausted from yesterday (blasted my brains out from opening to closing bell) That we opted to let the itchy skiers get there first. Truth is, that even with $25 tix on SB Sunday, the place was hauntingly empty. I was talking with some shareholders who were absolutely astonished that there was no line on any chair, including the single, except for little five minute bursts very infrequently. Birdland, where certain of our company chose to ski, was a bit dicey. No worse or better than Bush, since they had groomers to chew it up. It was wall to wall covered, as were all trails, save for a few rocks here and there and a little bit of ice circa 1970. The blues and greens skied about the same, with lots of scratch. Half of the blacks were opened. But as Eric said last night. "The groomers are skiing great, but the ungroomed is very "technical skiing." I like that term. I saw nobody on them. There were a few woods shots, but only a very few who were brave enough. For a place like MRG, that's an incredible comment.
Once the top opened after the Radonee race, the top blue trail was simply heaven. Lots of packed and loose powder. Just be careful after about 12 turns, there is one turn that was just one sheet of sheer ice, across the trail and about 20 feet in length. It had icebreaker moguls right after it. I lost it trying to get across the ice, and just slid, and slid and slid.
You can have a lot of fun at MRG. I would not advise anyone less than a strong intermediate to ski it. So why was I there?
By the time I got to MRG I was rather shot from the Saturday pounding things at Bush more than I have in a number of years.
Those are the facts.
Sugarbush on Friday- frozen granular, all over. Groomed FGR OK till noon. This was with very light traffic. Indeed all the trails were open, but most of the challenging stuff , blue or black, had "experts only" marked at the entrance. Did lots of groomer stuff, used my 70 under foot, worked OK. Went to closing bell. Hitting any bumps was a challenge for even the best of sharp edges. While we had fun, it could have been a lot better. I ran several NASTAR runs to keep myself entertained when I bored of the trails. The course was in good shape, except for one large section of solid ice. It was ski on/off all lifts, to be expected. Bush chopped it up with the groomers, but it was pounded slick after about three hours. We did a couple of blacks, but they didn't get to be enjoyable until Saturday.
Sugarbush on Saturday - 2" fell over night. If this was last season, it would have been laughable. Knew it would be chewed solid in a couple hours. Hit the groomers at the opening bell. It was only windy from until about 8-9am. Hit the main trails at the opening bell. It was soo good, compared to the crap from the day before. Fresh tracks, maybe 2-4" felt good. I brought out the 96 under foot a good choice. Now, I started to hit some of the bump runs, which the day before had been frozen volkswagons. The snow between the moguls was nice, anywhere from about three inches to boot deep. I knew it would be short lived, so I just pounded them up.
I shot over to Castle rock for the opening chair. Egads, was that great. Man, I was blasting pow and first tracks all over the place. Even the ugly bumps skied well. Just stay off the mogul tips and you are fine.
About that time WWF met up with me and we went for a couple of cruises down some likely targets. Don't ask me names. I don't look and I don't remember. WWF then suggested we check out some woods. With the new snow, and the lack of tracks in there it was actually pretty good. Note to self, follow your buddy. I didn't and ended up dead-ended out of bounds in serious knarly. Had to book pack/post hole my way out. Good cardio. Snow had a nice fluff on top, some breakable crust and then about two feed of soft snow under it. I would go back and do it again, so decide for yourself.
By the afternoon, the complexion of the slopes changed entirely. I was back to 70mm under foot which made things edge-able. Back to the Nastar course. It was all scraped down from racers earlier that day. No ruts or anything for this weakling to dig into. That was very telling of how the main trails were.
Today, Mad River.
So exhausted from yesterday (blasted my brains out from opening to closing bell) That we opted to let the itchy skiers get there first. Truth is, that even with $25 tix on SB Sunday, the place was hauntingly empty. I was talking with some shareholders who were absolutely astonished that there was no line on any chair, including the single, except for little five minute bursts very infrequently. Birdland, where certain of our company chose to ski, was a bit dicey. No worse or better than Bush, since they had groomers to chew it up. It was wall to wall covered, as were all trails, save for a few rocks here and there and a little bit of ice circa 1970. The blues and greens skied about the same, with lots of scratch. Half of the blacks were opened. But as Eric said last night. "The groomers are skiing great, but the ungroomed is very "technical skiing." I like that term. I saw nobody on them. There were a few woods shots, but only a very few who were brave enough. For a place like MRG, that's an incredible comment.
Once the top opened after the Radonee race, the top blue trail was simply heaven. Lots of packed and loose powder. Just be careful after about 12 turns, there is one turn that was just one sheet of sheer ice, across the trail and about 20 feet in length. It had icebreaker moguls right after it. I lost it trying to get across the ice, and just slid, and slid and slid.
You can have a lot of fun at MRG. I would not advise anyone less than a strong intermediate to ski it. So why was I there?
By the time I got to MRG I was rather shot from the Saturday pounding things at Bush more than I have in a number of years.
Those are the facts.
billski
Active member
One in our posse had skied $teaux on Saturday and said the conditions are comparable to Bush.
rocojerry
Member
Castlerock Saturday
castlerock sign
castlerock liftline
castlerock run
middle earth
Castlerock was the most fun part of the mountain on Sat for me -- great to be challenged again and slay some bumps. Very challenging day -- for the most part it was early 2" ontop of solid base... later in the day the sun warmed up the snow a little, but not much.. Mt Ellen by the afternoon was in pretty rough shape -- wish we went back to Castlerock after lunch -- instead Lynx and Ellen.
castlerock sign
castlerock liftline
castlerock run
middle earth
Castlerock was the most fun part of the mountain on Sat for me -- great to be challenged again and slay some bumps. Very challenging day -- for the most part it was early 2" ontop of solid base... later in the day the sun warmed up the snow a little, but not much.. Mt Ellen by the afternoon was in pretty rough shape -- wish we went back to Castlerock after lunch -- instead Lynx and Ellen.
billski
Active member
same day, same place, different time.
Hey GM,
WWF said you were there somewhere. I skied with him until I got a bit OOB in the woods.
Hey GM,
WWF said you were there somewhere. I skied with him until I got a bit OOB in the woods.
rocojerry
Member
Hey GM,
WWF said you were there somewhere. I skied with him until I got a bit OOB in the woods.
ran into him in the lodge -- I was melting and needed to get outside. Didn't see him in the liftline though -- maybe next time, sounds like he showed you some goods.. I mostly stayed out of the woods this time around, friend was on demo ski's and didn't want to ding them up.
I think my next day at Sugarbush will be a weekday after a dump!
WWF-VT
Well-known member
billski - glad that you enjoyed the sprint down Birch Run and made it out of the woods OK. My guess is that you went too far right and came out on the Castlerock Connection trail. My best run on Saturday was a few laps on Steins which had seen about 24 hours of snow making and skied great.
xwhaler
Active member
Nice reports guys and pics. Will be at the Bush on Friday making turns. Hoping for a little bit of snow Tues and Thurs nights in the meantime.
billski
Active member
Looking at the map, that makes sense. I would have continued down, but didn't have a trail map to figure out where it comes out. With all the tracks buried, I headed back your way. God it was gnarly. dense and steep in there. Hard not to kiss trees when there was no room to turn.
I made it over to Steins at the end of the day at your suggestion. It was good, but I think you had it better than I. A bit scratchy on mogul peaks, but still quite navigable.
I feel really bad we didn't get more runs in. We have to stop meeting just once a year!
Regardless, thanks for the explores!
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