loafer89
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Area skied: Magic mountain, Vermont.
Date skied: April 6th from 9:15am - 4:20pm
Surface conditions: machine groomed, frozen granular (early ungroomed) spring corn
Weather: cloudy, fog near the summit, 35F at 9:00am, 37F at 4:20pm
Today was not a planned ski day, but we thought we would get in some spring snow and weather today at Magic Mountain, what we actually got was something altogether different, but still fun.
We arrived to a cloudy and sullen looking Magic Mountain, with the top 1/3 of the mountain socked in the clouds, and quite alot of bare spots showing on Black Magic and Black Line, Red Line and Sorcerer. Some people actually pulled into the parking lot, looked up at the mountain and then drove away:blink:.
Magic:
We started out skiing down a groomed Upper Magic Carpet to Wand and then down Hocus Pocus. Dipping into the ungroomed snow on the edges was a teeth rattling experience and I started to question the logic of skiing today.
Next up was a run down Betwixt which had just been groomed and we followed the groomers track down Trick and Kinderspiel which had nice soft corn snow that made for easy turns.
We took a test run down an ungoomed Upper and Lower Wizard which was starting to soften up even with the cloud cover due to the high April sun angle with high solar radiation coming through the clouds. Some parts of the run where very thin with a few mud/bare spots and underlying ice.
We did Wizard to Broomstick to Heart Of Magician, which had bare areas of grass, but lovely corn snow as well, but there was a water bar to side step over at the bottom of the run, no big deal.
Heart Of Magician:
By 11am, corn snow was to be found nearly everywhere and it was time to explore the mountain with my son. We skied Twilight Zone which has very deep cover and fairly large hard moguls:
Warren had this suicidal wish to ski Red Line which was more rocks and moss than snow, but we did it anyway:
We did runs down Talisman which had very deep cover and was fun to ski with plentiful corn snow. Sorcerer was much thinner and with narrowing areas of snowcover in spots:
Me at high speed:
:lol:
Today is closing day at Magic and despite some bare areas on the steep and extreme stuff, the mountain does have alot of snow on it's major snowmaking runs and Magic Carpet has edge to edge cover that will probably be skiable for a few more weeks:
We did 14 top to bottom runs including three down Boomstick/Heart Of Magician/Lower Magician and a run down Black Magic/Black Line. We both like the mountain and will be back next season.
Date skied: April 6th from 9:15am - 4:20pm
Surface conditions: machine groomed, frozen granular (early ungroomed) spring corn
Weather: cloudy, fog near the summit, 35F at 9:00am, 37F at 4:20pm
Today was not a planned ski day, but we thought we would get in some spring snow and weather today at Magic Mountain, what we actually got was something altogether different, but still fun.
We arrived to a cloudy and sullen looking Magic Mountain, with the top 1/3 of the mountain socked in the clouds, and quite alot of bare spots showing on Black Magic and Black Line, Red Line and Sorcerer. Some people actually pulled into the parking lot, looked up at the mountain and then drove away:blink:.
Magic:
We started out skiing down a groomed Upper Magic Carpet to Wand and then down Hocus Pocus. Dipping into the ungroomed snow on the edges was a teeth rattling experience and I started to question the logic of skiing today.
Next up was a run down Betwixt which had just been groomed and we followed the groomers track down Trick and Kinderspiel which had nice soft corn snow that made for easy turns.
We took a test run down an ungoomed Upper and Lower Wizard which was starting to soften up even with the cloud cover due to the high April sun angle with high solar radiation coming through the clouds. Some parts of the run where very thin with a few mud/bare spots and underlying ice.
We did Wizard to Broomstick to Heart Of Magician, which had bare areas of grass, but lovely corn snow as well, but there was a water bar to side step over at the bottom of the run, no big deal.
Heart Of Magician:
By 11am, corn snow was to be found nearly everywhere and it was time to explore the mountain with my son. We skied Twilight Zone which has very deep cover and fairly large hard moguls:
Warren had this suicidal wish to ski Red Line which was more rocks and moss than snow, but we did it anyway:
We did runs down Talisman which had very deep cover and was fun to ski with plentiful corn snow. Sorcerer was much thinner and with narrowing areas of snowcover in spots:
Me at high speed:
:lol:
Today is closing day at Magic and despite some bare areas on the steep and extreme stuff, the mountain does have alot of snow on it's major snowmaking runs and Magic Carpet has edge to edge cover that will probably be skiable for a few more weeks:
We did 14 top to bottom runs including three down Boomstick/Heart Of Magician/Lower Magician and a run down Black Magic/Black Line. We both like the mountain and will be back next season.
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