Date(s) Skied: 12/20
Resort or Ski Area: Loon
Conditions: Man-made
Trip Report Short Version: Surprisingly not bad
Trip Report Long Version: I had the day free, and really wanted to ski, but the horror of the month's weather was making me indecisive. Even when the alarm went off at 5am, I considered just staying in bed until the Patriots game kicked off at 1p. I was able to drag myself up to Loon and boarded the Gondola around 8:15a. They had received a dusting of snow overnight; I-93 was kinda dicey starting around Plymouth. The real snow overnight was all man made. I gotta hand it to Loon, they really put out a good "product" on Sunday. The guns were blowing all day, - Walking Boss, Picked Rock, Seven Brothers, and a couple others in the center of the mountain. I talked to a lot of pass holders who were there on Saturday, they all said it was night and day. I guess Saturday was really horrible. On Sunday, there were only a couple of routes open, but it was real top to bottom skiing on good snow without any bare spots. The only downside was constantly scraping frozen snow off my goggles. The gondola line got long between 10-11. I stayed on North Peak then and didn't wait more than a couple minutes all day. Unfortunately, it's all going to get washed away this week.
Blowing snow on Seven Brothers
The ugly truth on Flume
Resort or Ski Area: Loon
Conditions: Man-made
Trip Report Short Version: Surprisingly not bad
Trip Report Long Version: I had the day free, and really wanted to ski, but the horror of the month's weather was making me indecisive. Even when the alarm went off at 5am, I considered just staying in bed until the Patriots game kicked off at 1p. I was able to drag myself up to Loon and boarded the Gondola around 8:15a. They had received a dusting of snow overnight; I-93 was kinda dicey starting around Plymouth. The real snow overnight was all man made. I gotta hand it to Loon, they really put out a good "product" on Sunday. The guns were blowing all day, - Walking Boss, Picked Rock, Seven Brothers, and a couple others in the center of the mountain. I talked to a lot of pass holders who were there on Saturday, they all said it was night and day. I guess Saturday was really horrible. On Sunday, there were only a couple of routes open, but it was real top to bottom skiing on good snow without any bare spots. The only downside was constantly scraping frozen snow off my goggles. The gondola line got long between 10-11. I stayed on North Peak then and didn't wait more than a couple minutes all day. Unfortunately, it's all going to get washed away this week.
Blowing snow on Seven Brothers
The ugly truth on Flume
