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Date(s) Skied: Friday, 4/6/2007, 9:30 am - 5:10 pm
Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen, Vermont
Conditions: POWDER! (14-18") Scrape underneath, mostly cloudy, no wind, snow showers late.
Trip Report: Joe and I amazingly ended up on 89 about a mile apart and checked into the Golden Lion shortly before 8 pm Thursday night. We met reefer and Chris who in the room next door and they told us of their awesome day at Sugarbush. I told them MRG was opening and they still seemed to lean towards Sugarbush for today. Joe and I were sleeping by 10:15.
Got up early and leisurely got the day started. Headed to the office for breakfast around 8 am. Awesome blueberry pancakes (thanks Melinda!). Keith and Chris informed us they decided on MRG. I then got a call from bvibert who said he just got on 89! Way to go Brian making the drive up in the morning. We headed to the mountain and got in line for the Single around 9:20. It started loading at 9:30. Tons of new snow since Wednesday that nobody has skied yet. A legit 14" most places with more up top.
We "warmed up" on Chute to Glades. Got some words of encouragement from Keith on the Single overhead. At the bottom Joe and I met up with madskier6. Chris and Keith soon arrived and within a few minutes Brian marched out of the Basebox. We all met at the summit and teared it up off the Single all day. The double never spun so it should be sweet over there tomorrow.
Hit some runs off the Single chair including Chute/Glades, Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver, Fall Line, and we finished before lunch on Lower Antelope. Took an hour lunch at 1 pm and then headed back out for another on Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver. Then it was time for Paradise. Awesome trail. Chris hucked the waterfall; the rest of us except for Brian hucked the rock on the left. Brian attempted to skirt around it on the "lady's tee" and ended up skiing all of Paradise in the tight and steep woods on skier's left! :blink: We waited at the bottom for over 10 minutes and were getting a bit concerned. Finally, Brian emerged up the trail towards Sunnyside. He skis down to us and exclaims, "that was not the lady's tee..." :lol:
We then did a Chute/Liftline run and finished up again on Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver which may very well be my favorite combination at Mad River. A truly awesome, awesome day. Certainly somewhere in the top 1 or 2 for me this season. I hope to make it out once more, but if this is how it ends, it was certainly a great way to end what turned out to be an awesome season. Very strange having mid-winter conditions on April 6. It took me about 4 hours to get home. Not bad, but I'm shot. Runs at MRG take about 45 minutes each and we skied almost seven hours, not including lunch.
Incredible day. Thanks Joe, Brian, Jeff Keith and Chris! Pics and vid to come....
Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen, Vermont
Conditions: POWDER! (14-18") Scrape underneath, mostly cloudy, no wind, snow showers late.
Trip Report: Joe and I amazingly ended up on 89 about a mile apart and checked into the Golden Lion shortly before 8 pm Thursday night. We met reefer and Chris who in the room next door and they told us of their awesome day at Sugarbush. I told them MRG was opening and they still seemed to lean towards Sugarbush for today. Joe and I were sleeping by 10:15.
Got up early and leisurely got the day started. Headed to the office for breakfast around 8 am. Awesome blueberry pancakes (thanks Melinda!). Keith and Chris informed us they decided on MRG. I then got a call from bvibert who said he just got on 89! Way to go Brian making the drive up in the morning. We headed to the mountain and got in line for the Single around 9:20. It started loading at 9:30. Tons of new snow since Wednesday that nobody has skied yet. A legit 14" most places with more up top.
We "warmed up" on Chute to Glades. Got some words of encouragement from Keith on the Single overhead. At the bottom Joe and I met up with madskier6. Chris and Keith soon arrived and within a few minutes Brian marched out of the Basebox. We all met at the summit and teared it up off the Single all day. The double never spun so it should be sweet over there tomorrow.
Hit some runs off the Single chair including Chute/Glades, Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver, Fall Line, and we finished before lunch on Lower Antelope. Took an hour lunch at 1 pm and then headed back out for another on Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver. Then it was time for Paradise. Awesome trail. Chris hucked the waterfall; the rest of us except for Brian hucked the rock on the left. Brian attempted to skirt around it on the "lady's tee" and ended up skiing all of Paradise in the tight and steep woods on skier's left! :blink: We waited at the bottom for over 10 minutes and were getting a bit concerned. Finally, Brian emerged up the trail towards Sunnyside. He skis down to us and exclaims, "that was not the lady's tee..." :lol:
We then did a Chute/Liftline run and finished up again on Cat Bowel/Linx/Beaver which may very well be my favorite combination at Mad River. A truly awesome, awesome day. Certainly somewhere in the top 1 or 2 for me this season. I hope to make it out once more, but if this is how it ends, it was certainly a great way to end what turned out to be an awesome season. Very strange having mid-winter conditions on April 6. It took me about 4 hours to get home. Not bad, but I'm shot. Runs at MRG take about 45 minutes each and we skied almost seven hours, not including lunch.
Incredible day. Thanks Joe, Brian, Jeff Keith and Chris! Pics and vid to come....
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