andyzee
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Date(s) Skied: 1/27/07
Resort or Ski Area: Killington and Pico
Conditions: Packed Powder, groomed, powder, some scraped of and icy and more powder
Trip Report: As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, the face in this pic just about sums it all up, great day:
Me and the Mrs. started out in Killington where it was snowing and continued to snow throughout the day. We started by taking the Snowdon Quad and took Chute all the way down. The trail was groomed velvety soft snow, funny how much the term velvet is coming into my vocabulary the past two weekends of this crappy winter. Vee liked the trail so much we had to go back and do it a couple more times. We then cut across to the North Ridge area where we found similar conditions, did Down Draft, real nice. After which we headed over to KBL for the Zoner meeting. Here we hooked up with Roark and proceeded to get some runs in together. Our first was a run towards the South Ridge area, where I had my first yard sale of the day. Word of advise, if you ever fall, loose both of your skis, and continue sliding, don’t try to stop yourself with your pole, ouch, my shoulder and chest been hurting for the last few days. From there we headed over to Bear where we took a run down Wildfire, which had some nice soft bumps. At Bear we decided to head over to Pico, good freakin choice.
At Pico we did basically the same runs over and over. We started on UpperKA, nice winding trail, good cover. Later on we cut across to Upper Pike, ok so the we thought the rope meant the trail was for experts only. This trail was just to nice to leave alone, plenty of untouched powder on skiers right, to the point where I couldn’t see my skis most of the way down, felt like I was in Utah.
From Upper Pike we headed over to Birch woods, as seen in the pic above, there was a bit a vegetation popping through, but plenty of velvety (there we go again) smooth powder for most of the day. We did that a couple of times when Vee told me here legs were bothering her. At that point I told Roark, we had to take a break from the glades and to go on with out us.
From there we proceeded to Forty Niner, which was rather icy. Got to the lift and as we were riding back up I informed Vee that Birch Glades was just too sweet to leave alone. I told here we’d ride til she couldn’t ride anymore and then I would have to hit the glades one last time. Well, she informed me she was up for it again, so we hit the Glade a couple more time, each was sweet. At one point we ran into Token Boarder from Kzone and informed him of the nice pow on the Upper Pike and Birch Glades.
We decided to cut across from UpperKa to Upper Pike. However the cut over I took through the woods was the wrong one, a bit tight for Vee. Since I already started, I was commited. She informed me she would meet me furthere down the trail. Going down the Pike, had my second yard sale of the day, not used to all that powder :smile: . Had to get up wipe myself off, hike up the trail to get my skis. Put one ski on put the second one on, had a bit of trouble with it. As I'm trying to get the second ski on, the lift above me stops, who's in the chair above me, a patroller. He was nice enough to inform me that there's better snow on the side of the trail. I responded that I was having a bit of trouble getting my ski on. He said to wait and he'd come down and help me, I says OK. That's when he informs me that if he helps me, he'd have to take my pass, I said, thanks but no thanks and continued on. As I got close to the bottom, I look for Vee in her red jacket and found it kind of odd, how many people were standing at the bottom of the trail with red jackets on! :smile: Took me awhile to realize these were Killington employees :smile: Wasn't sure what to do, so as I got towards the trail, Easy Street, I went to the left of them and cut into the Birch Glades, not one said a word to me, pheww. One or two more runs and we called it a day, and a great day it was.
This was the first time I was at Pico in good conditions, for sure I'll be back there again this season.
Resort or Ski Area: Killington and Pico
Conditions: Packed Powder, groomed, powder, some scraped of and icy and more powder
Trip Report: As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, the face in this pic just about sums it all up, great day:
Me and the Mrs. started out in Killington where it was snowing and continued to snow throughout the day. We started by taking the Snowdon Quad and took Chute all the way down. The trail was groomed velvety soft snow, funny how much the term velvet is coming into my vocabulary the past two weekends of this crappy winter. Vee liked the trail so much we had to go back and do it a couple more times. We then cut across to the North Ridge area where we found similar conditions, did Down Draft, real nice. After which we headed over to KBL for the Zoner meeting. Here we hooked up with Roark and proceeded to get some runs in together. Our first was a run towards the South Ridge area, where I had my first yard sale of the day. Word of advise, if you ever fall, loose both of your skis, and continue sliding, don’t try to stop yourself with your pole, ouch, my shoulder and chest been hurting for the last few days. From there we headed over to Bear where we took a run down Wildfire, which had some nice soft bumps. At Bear we decided to head over to Pico, good freakin choice.
At Pico we did basically the same runs over and over. We started on UpperKA, nice winding trail, good cover. Later on we cut across to Upper Pike, ok so the we thought the rope meant the trail was for experts only. This trail was just to nice to leave alone, plenty of untouched powder on skiers right, to the point where I couldn’t see my skis most of the way down, felt like I was in Utah.
From Upper Pike we headed over to Birch woods, as seen in the pic above, there was a bit a vegetation popping through, but plenty of velvety (there we go again) smooth powder for most of the day. We did that a couple of times when Vee told me here legs were bothering her. At that point I told Roark, we had to take a break from the glades and to go on with out us.
From there we proceeded to Forty Niner, which was rather icy. Got to the lift and as we were riding back up I informed Vee that Birch Glades was just too sweet to leave alone. I told here we’d ride til she couldn’t ride anymore and then I would have to hit the glades one last time. Well, she informed me she was up for it again, so we hit the Glade a couple more time, each was sweet. At one point we ran into Token Boarder from Kzone and informed him of the nice pow on the Upper Pike and Birch Glades.
We decided to cut across from UpperKa to Upper Pike. However the cut over I took through the woods was the wrong one, a bit tight for Vee. Since I already started, I was commited. She informed me she would meet me furthere down the trail. Going down the Pike, had my second yard sale of the day, not used to all that powder :smile: . Had to get up wipe myself off, hike up the trail to get my skis. Put one ski on put the second one on, had a bit of trouble with it. As I'm trying to get the second ski on, the lift above me stops, who's in the chair above me, a patroller. He was nice enough to inform me that there's better snow on the side of the trail. I responded that I was having a bit of trouble getting my ski on. He said to wait and he'd come down and help me, I says OK. That's when he informs me that if he helps me, he'd have to take my pass, I said, thanks but no thanks and continued on. As I got close to the bottom, I look for Vee in her red jacket and found it kind of odd, how many people were standing at the bottom of the trail with red jackets on! :smile: Took me awhile to realize these were Killington employees :smile: Wasn't sure what to do, so as I got towards the trail, Easy Street, I went to the left of them and cut into the Birch Glades, not one said a word to me, pheww. One or two more runs and we called it a day, and a great day it was.
This was the first time I was at Pico in good conditions, for sure I'll be back there again this season.
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