GrilledSteezeSandwich
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Hey All,
I'm back from a fun session of skiing at Hunter mountain. I left the A yesterday around Noon and the drive up was sunny until I hit the Catskills which were covered in dark clouds. Once I hit Tannersville there was some nice snow shower activity with the temperature in the upper teens. The motel I stayed at 3 years ago is out of business and I didn't see anything decent in Hunter so I drove to Windham and got a room at the Hotel Vienna. A pretty nice place about a mile from the town of Windham and 8 miles from Hunter mountain. I had some complimentary coffee and a freshly baked chocolate cookie. I went to the Brooklyn bridge for gin and tonics and chicken quesidillas then I had some wheat beer at the Cave mountain brewary.
This morning I slept until 8:30AM so no chance of getting first tracks in fresh cord. I had coffee, OJ, and a croissant at the hotel..packed up, checked out and drove to Hunter mountain. There was a skiff of new snow on my car and the temperature was around 20 degrees. I pulled into the Hunter lot around 9:20AM and there were a couple hundred cars..I booted up and bought my ticket for $39. Along with the ticket came a coupon for $10 off a future lift ticket before Christmas.
I boarded the Snowlite express and was impressed by the large amounts of snow blown in the past week. 17 runs were open including a terrain park. I first skied Hellgate to 7th avenue down to the base. The snow was hardpacked but carvable even on my dull edges with nice chalky snow on the sides. In the liftline was 03Jeff from AlpineZone..who must have recognized me from my couch jumping video. 03Jeff joined me and we skied Belt Parkway which was very nice with lots of whoop de doos. Then we skied a run down Minya Konka which must have just opened because it was about 30 whales top to bottom with tiny bumps starting to form..lots of fun and I love the feeling of unweighting on the backside of a whale..like a rollercoaster. We then took the F lift up and mainly skied the Hellgate 7th avenue combo to the base. It was wide open..so I was able to ski pretty fast and the section below the runout was getting alot of sun where we were able to get some good pictures.
03Jeff took a short break to take off his boot and I did a solo run down Minya Konka via the F-Lift. Wow what a fun run once again but it was more scrapped off from the traffic..Then I saw 03Jeff at the base and we took another run down the Belt Parkway. I jumped off of a little 4-5 foot rockoutcropping on the side of the trail and 03Jeff got a picture. Total flat landing but I didn't fall..The couch jumping had to help with that Epic Huck. We then skied Hellgate again and I cut left and poached Racers Edge. Wow that's a fun fall-line run and the guns were cranking out veltevy/chalky like manmade...nice slow and deliberate turns and I met 03Jeff at the base the liftline corral was full for the Snowlite quad. We both decided on one more run down Belt Parkway before hitting the road. I skied the last run non-stop..2 miles..1600 vert..of fun..woo hoo..woo hoo..What a fun ski day. In total I skied 12 runs for 18, 200 vert...I left around 12:45PM and it took me exactly 3 hours to drive the 195 miles home and 23 minutes to write this report..lol...pictures should be posted sometime soon...
I'm back from a fun session of skiing at Hunter mountain. I left the A yesterday around Noon and the drive up was sunny until I hit the Catskills which were covered in dark clouds. Once I hit Tannersville there was some nice snow shower activity with the temperature in the upper teens. The motel I stayed at 3 years ago is out of business and I didn't see anything decent in Hunter so I drove to Windham and got a room at the Hotel Vienna. A pretty nice place about a mile from the town of Windham and 8 miles from Hunter mountain. I had some complimentary coffee and a freshly baked chocolate cookie. I went to the Brooklyn bridge for gin and tonics and chicken quesidillas then I had some wheat beer at the Cave mountain brewary.
This morning I slept until 8:30AM so no chance of getting first tracks in fresh cord. I had coffee, OJ, and a croissant at the hotel..packed up, checked out and drove to Hunter mountain. There was a skiff of new snow on my car and the temperature was around 20 degrees. I pulled into the Hunter lot around 9:20AM and there were a couple hundred cars..I booted up and bought my ticket for $39. Along with the ticket came a coupon for $10 off a future lift ticket before Christmas.
I boarded the Snowlite express and was impressed by the large amounts of snow blown in the past week. 17 runs were open including a terrain park. I first skied Hellgate to 7th avenue down to the base. The snow was hardpacked but carvable even on my dull edges with nice chalky snow on the sides. In the liftline was 03Jeff from AlpineZone..who must have recognized me from my couch jumping video. 03Jeff joined me and we skied Belt Parkway which was very nice with lots of whoop de doos. Then we skied a run down Minya Konka which must have just opened because it was about 30 whales top to bottom with tiny bumps starting to form..lots of fun and I love the feeling of unweighting on the backside of a whale..like a rollercoaster. We then took the F lift up and mainly skied the Hellgate 7th avenue combo to the base. It was wide open..so I was able to ski pretty fast and the section below the runout was getting alot of sun where we were able to get some good pictures.
03Jeff took a short break to take off his boot and I did a solo run down Minya Konka via the F-Lift. Wow what a fun run once again but it was more scrapped off from the traffic..Then I saw 03Jeff at the base and we took another run down the Belt Parkway. I jumped off of a little 4-5 foot rockoutcropping on the side of the trail and 03Jeff got a picture. Total flat landing but I didn't fall..The couch jumping had to help with that Epic Huck. We then skied Hellgate again and I cut left and poached Racers Edge. Wow that's a fun fall-line run and the guns were cranking out veltevy/chalky like manmade...nice slow and deliberate turns and I met 03Jeff at the base the liftline corral was full for the Snowlite quad. We both decided on one more run down Belt Parkway before hitting the road. I skied the last run non-stop..2 miles..1600 vert..of fun..woo hoo..woo hoo..What a fun ski day. In total I skied 12 runs for 18, 200 vert...I left around 12:45PM and it took me exactly 3 hours to drive the 195 miles home and 23 minutes to write this report..lol...pictures should be posted sometime soon...
