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Date(s) Skied: Friday, March 4, 2005; 9:15 AM - 2:15 PM
Resort or Ski Area: Magic Mountain, Londonderry, Vermont
Conditions: Dense tracked out powder on the blacks, groomed powder on the cruisers, some powder stashes on the lower mountain. Bluebird AM, Snow squalls PM. Light winds. Temps near twenty.
Trip Report: Today I visited my third new ski area of the season, Magic Mountain (along with MRG and Sugarbush). I started rolling at 6:15 and got to the mountain about 8:50. The place was basically empty when I arrived. I boarded the red chair around 9:15.
They were still in the process of grooming much of the intermediate terrain and the blacks were all left ungroomed. First run included Trick which is a black at the top. The powder from the Tuesday/Wednesday storm has set up into a firm dense powder that would soften up a bit later in the day. Some of the best blacks included Heart of Magician and Sorcerer. Plenty of coverage on both, but again very dense powder. Slide of Hans was a little thin but fun as well.
I was also pretty impressed by some of the challenging looking terrain that I didn't try. Upper Redline, Upper Lucifer and Master Magician were all gnarley looking and way beyond my comfort level. Master Magician is especialy forboding with jagged rock poking throughout as well as frozen waterfalls and a gladed section at the bottom.
Goniff Glade was pretty good, but the run of the day, by far, was Twlight Zone. I really liked both runs as they're relatively spaced out gladed trails, but Twilight had better coverage and was starting to bump up a bit which made it easier for me to ski. I did better on bumps on TZ than I did on the heavy dense powder on Goniff. Twilight has a bit mellower pitch as well. I only wish I tried it earlier as I didn't get on it until 1 PM. MY final three runs include TZ.
Great views from Magic. I was able to pick out five other ski areas; Stratton and Bromley are obvious. Also visible are the backsides of Okemo and Killington. Ascutney Mountain is also visible, although you can only make out a bit of the ski trails (probably where the chairs unload). The weather today was strange. It started out clear and sunny. By noon, Stratton was becoming obscured by snow showers. The squalls reached Magic around 1 PM. Most of the powder from this week's storm has been tracked out, but there were still a few stashes along the sides, especially lower mountain, skier's right. Groomed terrain was as smooth as silk.
Magic is a cool hill, somewhat resembling a large Berkshire East. There's a bit of a boring runout on the lower mountain, but the steep terrain is no joke. The mountain is in pretty decent shape, but considering the length of the drive I would only visit when snow conditions are good. I could really see that some of the best terrain would suffer in bad snow years.
I wanted to get home at a decent time and finished up at about 2:15 PM. All in all a great day. I'm psyched to have tried a new mountain in Magic.
Click HERE for pics.
Resort or Ski Area: Magic Mountain, Londonderry, Vermont
Conditions: Dense tracked out powder on the blacks, groomed powder on the cruisers, some powder stashes on the lower mountain. Bluebird AM, Snow squalls PM. Light winds. Temps near twenty.
Trip Report: Today I visited my third new ski area of the season, Magic Mountain (along with MRG and Sugarbush). I started rolling at 6:15 and got to the mountain about 8:50. The place was basically empty when I arrived. I boarded the red chair around 9:15.
They were still in the process of grooming much of the intermediate terrain and the blacks were all left ungroomed. First run included Trick which is a black at the top. The powder from the Tuesday/Wednesday storm has set up into a firm dense powder that would soften up a bit later in the day. Some of the best blacks included Heart of Magician and Sorcerer. Plenty of coverage on both, but again very dense powder. Slide of Hans was a little thin but fun as well.
I was also pretty impressed by some of the challenging looking terrain that I didn't try. Upper Redline, Upper Lucifer and Master Magician were all gnarley looking and way beyond my comfort level. Master Magician is especialy forboding with jagged rock poking throughout as well as frozen waterfalls and a gladed section at the bottom.
Goniff Glade was pretty good, but the run of the day, by far, was Twlight Zone. I really liked both runs as they're relatively spaced out gladed trails, but Twilight had better coverage and was starting to bump up a bit which made it easier for me to ski. I did better on bumps on TZ than I did on the heavy dense powder on Goniff. Twilight has a bit mellower pitch as well. I only wish I tried it earlier as I didn't get on it until 1 PM. MY final three runs include TZ.
Great views from Magic. I was able to pick out five other ski areas; Stratton and Bromley are obvious. Also visible are the backsides of Okemo and Killington. Ascutney Mountain is also visible, although you can only make out a bit of the ski trails (probably where the chairs unload). The weather today was strange. It started out clear and sunny. By noon, Stratton was becoming obscured by snow showers. The squalls reached Magic around 1 PM. Most of the powder from this week's storm has been tracked out, but there were still a few stashes along the sides, especially lower mountain, skier's right. Groomed terrain was as smooth as silk.
Magic is a cool hill, somewhat resembling a large Berkshire East. There's a bit of a boring runout on the lower mountain, but the steep terrain is no joke. The mountain is in pretty decent shape, but considering the length of the drive I would only visit when snow conditions are good. I could really see that some of the best terrain would suffer in bad snow years.
I wanted to get home at a decent time and finished up at about 2:15 PM. All in all a great day. I'm psyched to have tried a new mountain in Magic.
Click HERE for pics.
Next weekend though Whiteface. 
