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Date(s) Skied: Friday, 2/9/2007 - 9:05 pm - 3:15 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Hunter Mountain, New York
Conditions: Manmade packed powder, hard pack, some bumps. Temps in the high teens, Partly cloudy, windy at the summit
Trip Report: Brian and I got to the mountain shortly before 9 am, booted up and headed out. Chilly today. We took four runs before the 10:30 meet-up - Hellgate/Broadway/Ike, Minya/Lower Xover, East Side Drive, Cliff. We then decided to try and squeeze in one more on Huega. On the lift ride up we bumped into trtaylor. Unfortunately, we didn't get to the summit until 10:39 and missed Hawkshot99 - my bad. We did Hellgate and then all three of us jumped in Upper Crossover. I was psyched to see Brian and Tim try that. We then did another run on East Side and I tried Lower K27.
Tim then broke off to check out the NASTAR course so Brian and I headed over to the West Side via Wayout. Towards the Claire's merge we bumped into Hawkshot! Hawkshot and I decided to try Claire's. Both of us went down briefly towards the top, but were able to recover. Hawkshot then went down again, slid for a good stretch, and then released out of his skis and slid out of site. I was pretty concerned, but someone from the lift confirmed he was okay. I picked my way down and grabbed his skis. I brought them down to him and was relieved to see he was okay. Claire's was not fun today - mostly slick windblown hardpack and some ice. Not a good time.
Glutton for punishment, I headed over to Anna Purna next for a solo run. Purna was waaaaaaaay better. Still slick hardpack, but bumpy enough and with some areas of loose snow to make it much more enjoyable. Sweet run. It must be absolutely fantastic in the spring with some nice soft bumps.
We then bid Hawkshot farewell as he had to work so we skied Hellgate down to the seeded line on Broadway. Really fun low angle bumps. So much so that we hit it again before lunch. Ate lunch around 1 pm and headed back out around 1:30. Hit East Side and Minya again, as well as Cliff. At the top of the Broadway bumps we saw Tim again!
I hit the bumps and then at the bottom noticed this little kids thrashing down them. He stopped near me and I said, "nice job!" and asked his age. "I'm seven." I then noticed a guy ripping down the bumps. Hmmm. 180 mentioned he'd be skiing with his 7-year-old. It was! We then took two runs down Upper Crossover and skirted over to the Broadway bumps, and finished up on Ike and then Racer's. Nice to meet a new AZer, 180. Your boy rips!
Conditions were great today. The groomed stuff was very smooth and edgeable. The ungroomed stuff on the front was big hardpack bumps. I didn't ski Upper Xover or Lower K particularly well, but they were fun nonetheless. The single black were all fun with some lines on skier's left. East Side skied particularly well with the fresh manmade on there, as did Upper Hellgate. The West Side was rough and only worth two runs. Cool to get on Purna though. Great run!
Overall a great day. I was happy that we were able to meet everyone we planned to. The mountain is in great shape with a ton of manmade snow. Go get some!
Resort or Ski Area: Hunter Mountain, New York
Conditions: Manmade packed powder, hard pack, some bumps. Temps in the high teens, Partly cloudy, windy at the summit
Trip Report: Brian and I got to the mountain shortly before 9 am, booted up and headed out. Chilly today. We took four runs before the 10:30 meet-up - Hellgate/Broadway/Ike, Minya/Lower Xover, East Side Drive, Cliff. We then decided to try and squeeze in one more on Huega. On the lift ride up we bumped into trtaylor. Unfortunately, we didn't get to the summit until 10:39 and missed Hawkshot99 - my bad. We did Hellgate and then all three of us jumped in Upper Crossover. I was psyched to see Brian and Tim try that. We then did another run on East Side and I tried Lower K27.
Tim then broke off to check out the NASTAR course so Brian and I headed over to the West Side via Wayout. Towards the Claire's merge we bumped into Hawkshot! Hawkshot and I decided to try Claire's. Both of us went down briefly towards the top, but were able to recover. Hawkshot then went down again, slid for a good stretch, and then released out of his skis and slid out of site. I was pretty concerned, but someone from the lift confirmed he was okay. I picked my way down and grabbed his skis. I brought them down to him and was relieved to see he was okay. Claire's was not fun today - mostly slick windblown hardpack and some ice. Not a good time.
Glutton for punishment, I headed over to Anna Purna next for a solo run. Purna was waaaaaaaay better. Still slick hardpack, but bumpy enough and with some areas of loose snow to make it much more enjoyable. Sweet run. It must be absolutely fantastic in the spring with some nice soft bumps.
We then bid Hawkshot farewell as he had to work so we skied Hellgate down to the seeded line on Broadway. Really fun low angle bumps. So much so that we hit it again before lunch. Ate lunch around 1 pm and headed back out around 1:30. Hit East Side and Minya again, as well as Cliff. At the top of the Broadway bumps we saw Tim again!
I hit the bumps and then at the bottom noticed this little kids thrashing down them. He stopped near me and I said, "nice job!" and asked his age. "I'm seven." I then noticed a guy ripping down the bumps. Hmmm. 180 mentioned he'd be skiing with his 7-year-old. It was! We then took two runs down Upper Crossover and skirted over to the Broadway bumps, and finished up on Ike and then Racer's. Nice to meet a new AZer, 180. Your boy rips!
Conditions were great today. The groomed stuff was very smooth and edgeable. The ungroomed stuff on the front was big hardpack bumps. I didn't ski Upper Xover or Lower K particularly well, but they were fun nonetheless. The single black were all fun with some lines on skier's left. East Side skied particularly well with the fresh manmade on there, as did Upper Hellgate. The West Side was rough and only worth two runs. Cool to get on Purna though. Great run!
Overall a great day. I was happy that we were able to meet everyone we planned to. The mountain is in great shape with a ton of manmade snow. Go get some!
Looks like I should have tried it out.
