Loon Mountain 1/24-25

[davidhowland14]

As K-Mart says, the woods were the goods. Trails were great packed powder/edgeable crust and everything was open.

Loon's marked woods were heavily tracked out and sucked. Ripsaw was ok, a little scrapy (ok, extremely scrapy) on Saturday, a lot better on sunday. Damn, that thing is steep though. Great run with some fun rollers on the runout. Sunday I followed some tracks into the off-trail woods. And I found heaven. Most of the woods were untracked, with about 15" (skiing boot to knee deep) left over from last week's storm. Almost everyone who went in followed the traverse and went into a lovely mogul field. I stayed to the side and wallowed in pow.

Lift lines were pretty much nonexistent all weekend.

This guy was cool.

Gondola was about 15 minutes in the singles line. Bluebird both days.

Freakin' cold on sunday (-5 in the car on the way up, 15 below sunday night). I skied both days with the helmet cam and will have footage as soon as I figure out how to work with AVI on a mac. The cam was a great conversation starter though. Everyone on every lift asked about it.

I poached this section of lift line on the last two runs of the day. Knee deep fluff.

Find the skier...

Snow snake.

Never had a bad day at Loon.

 

[davidhowland14]

couldn't get the mac to work with the AVI (not yet anyway). Quick upload to youtube.

 

[Johnskiismore]

Good stuff! It is still amazing to me how much POW is to be had in the trees! 9+ days since the last significant snowfall and you'll still find great lines in there!

 

[AMAC2233]

I skiied Ripsaw on Sunday - great trail. Must have lapped it 10 times and didn't get bored. That Lincoln Express is really fast so it's do-able. The snow was really good I thought. Got to get on it early though. Don't think the trail would be as good if it were icy because it's so steep. The view of town is great from the top too!!

 

[Johnskiismore]

On Sunday I hit Ripsaw early afternoon and skier's left was ice, even with a good edge it was hard to hold. So, I just went down skier's right where it wasn't groomed or plowed.