billski
Active member
Loon Mountain, NH Wed. March 2, 2005
Everyone seemed to get the word that Wed. was a powder day. Loon was really hoppin. Parking lot was full by about 10AM. The two base lodges were pretty full and camp 3 was slim pickins; You could always find a place to sit, but you had to share the table, unlike a normal weekday. Tons of families with young kids - this is of course NH school vacation week. Loon ticket sales at the Gondola base seemed a bit unprepared - one window open with quite a line..
It seemed that lots of people were either in lessons on on the limited quantity of green trails. No chair lift lines except at the gondola. I took gondola 2x in the AM and had about a 5 minute wait. Line looked like about 15 mins in the afternoon. Lots of people bailed out starting about 1:30pm. Either they are up for the week or they just got tired out.
Now to the snow. Powder, powder everywhere. Probably about 8-10" of the white fluffy variety. This would not have been enjoyable if it were not for the substantial frozen base below. It must have snowed all night, because the groomers had not touched the stuff anywhere. Lots of mini-moguls forming all over. All the trails were in pretty good shape. The black diamonds were actually in the best shape because they had the least traffic. Lots of woods skiers to be seen. By afternoon there were select scratchy places on the blues, probably from underconfident skiers who just scraped their ways down. But it was really nothing any level skier couldn't handle.
I suspect the groomers were out in full force last night packin the stuff down.
Adding to the delight, light to moderate snowshowers went on all day - was isolated to the mountain regions (on the commute home, when I got as far south as Plymouth, the sun came out.) The winds started to pickup in the afternoon.
Rented demo skis at Rodgers Ski Outlet in Lincoln. A very, very nice place with knowledgeable staff and an excellent selection. Always refreshing to deal with a local.
A memorable, but tiring day for someone who just spent the winter perfecting my carving technique on ice and FRGR.
I have photos, but I doubt I'll have time to post them.
Everyone seemed to get the word that Wed. was a powder day. Loon was really hoppin. Parking lot was full by about 10AM. The two base lodges were pretty full and camp 3 was slim pickins; You could always find a place to sit, but you had to share the table, unlike a normal weekday. Tons of families with young kids - this is of course NH school vacation week. Loon ticket sales at the Gondola base seemed a bit unprepared - one window open with quite a line..
It seemed that lots of people were either in lessons on on the limited quantity of green trails. No chair lift lines except at the gondola. I took gondola 2x in the AM and had about a 5 minute wait. Line looked like about 15 mins in the afternoon. Lots of people bailed out starting about 1:30pm. Either they are up for the week or they just got tired out.
Now to the snow. Powder, powder everywhere. Probably about 8-10" of the white fluffy variety. This would not have been enjoyable if it were not for the substantial frozen base below. It must have snowed all night, because the groomers had not touched the stuff anywhere. Lots of mini-moguls forming all over. All the trails were in pretty good shape. The black diamonds were actually in the best shape because they had the least traffic. Lots of woods skiers to be seen. By afternoon there were select scratchy places on the blues, probably from underconfident skiers who just scraped their ways down. But it was really nothing any level skier couldn't handle.
I suspect the groomers were out in full force last night packin the stuff down.
Adding to the delight, light to moderate snowshowers went on all day - was isolated to the mountain regions (on the commute home, when I got as far south as Plymouth, the sun came out.) The winds started to pickup in the afternoon.
Rented demo skis at Rodgers Ski Outlet in Lincoln. A very, very nice place with knowledgeable staff and an excellent selection. Always refreshing to deal with a local.
A memorable, but tiring day for someone who just spent the winter perfecting my carving technique on ice and FRGR.
I have photos, but I doubt I'll have time to post them.
