Magic 3/12 - 3/13

[jrmagic]

What an unexpected awesome weekend this turned out to be! Early on I was expecting to find somewhat firm conditions but it never really got cold enough on Friday night for things to setup which left the mountain buttery soft on the bottom and only a tad firmer on top. As the day progressed both Saturday and Sunday the upper mountain softened up nicely and basically the whole mountain was a playground. Best skiing for me was Sorceror on Saurday and Witch to Black Line on Sunday. The highlight for me though was watching my 9 year old do his first descent down Red Line. That really made his season. Big thumbs up to the Ops crew for clearing debris off the trails. It was amazing to see how many trees and limbs were down because of the ice storm on Monday. They really had had their work cut out for them this week. Even on Saturday Broomstick was a mess but the ops crew got in there for a couple of hours in the morning and cleared the trees and debris so we could get our turns in. I didn't venture in but it looked like Slide of Hans got hit hard with lots of trees down on the trail.

 

[billski]

Ice storm? I had no idea!

 

[Euler]

Ice storm? I had no idea!

Check out the photos on Magic's facebook page. OUCH!

 

[RustyGroomer]

Seriously one of my favorite weekends of the year. I had bad expectations & as usual Magic delivered again. Even got 1st tracks down Magician on my last run about 3:30.

What I thought would be an adventure was creamy corn the whole way down.

 

[skierbum]

What an unexpected awesome weekend this turned out to be! Early on I was expecting to find somewhat firm conditions but it never really got cold enough on Friday night for things to setup which left the mountain buttery soft on the bottom and only a tad firmer on top. As the day progressed both Saturday and Sunday the upper mountain softened up nicely and basically the whole mountain was a playground. Best skiing for me was Sorceror on Saurday and Witch to Black Line on Sunday. The highlight for me though was watching my 9 year old do his first descent down Red Line. That really made his season. Big thumbs up to the Ops crew for clearing debris off the trails. It was amazing to see how many trees and limbs were down because of the ice storm on Monday. They really had had their work cut out for them this week. Even on Saturday Broomstick was a mess but the ops crew got in there for a couple of hours in the morning and cleared the trees and debris so we could get our turns in. I didn't venture in but it looked like Slide of Hans got hit hard with lots of trees down on the trail.

I have heard great things about Magic! Might even head up this weekend. I just looked at the report and it indicated that Witch, Red Line, Magician were all closed. So my question is did you duck a rope, or was the trail open that day?

Thanks

 

[farlep99]

Witch & RedLine were closed because there was a lot of fallen trees on Witch from the ice storm earlier in the week. They were certainly both skiable snow-wise, but there was a lot of downed trees, branches, etc. The crew did a great job getting the rest of the trails all cleared up. From what I saw Witch was the worst debris-wise. RedLine was fine, but because it's accessed from Witch it was closed. Magician as well as Slide of Hans were not roped off. My guess is that by this weekend they'll have all of the debris cleared & here's hoping the snow conditions hold because they were great last weekend!

 

[RustyGroomer]

The ice storm was significant but did NOT harm the skiing in any way. While it gave mountain ops a headache early in the morning the crew had everything cleared by the time the lift spun.

Great day! Skierbum, I have one $40 ticket left if interested. Shoot me a PM.