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Magic Mountain, VT: 01/11/09 (FTW!!!!!)

riverc0il

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:grin::grin::grin:

Definitely the right decision on driving to Magic today. Words can not describe but I will do my best. After a harrowing 3+ hour drive, including two pairs of white knuckles from a virtually unplowed I-91 :angry: got to Magic at 8:45am and hooked up with roark. Love that Magic opens at 8am on the weekend. Just did not have it in me to wake up at 4:15 to make it happen.

Magic is "claiming" 6" but I call MAJOR bull shit. We were skiing boot deep untracked all day. 6" is just barely over my buckles. Someone go tell Magic's management that their snow reporter isn't playing with a full length ruler. Boot deep untracked was the rule from open until noon time. Untracked everywhere with no line and no traffic. Sah-weet! Everything but Master and Green Line were hammerable. Knee deep and deeper drifts were everywhere including on occasion down the entire side of some trails. Unreal. This is the best 6" of snow I have ever skied.

Base damage was minimal with no core shots. Probably would hardly have been any damage except for Green Line and an ill advised tree shot. Dropped Red Line next to last run which may have also scratched up the bases a bit. Lined up for the Ladies Tee on the big cliff but threw caution to the wind and went for the huck to successful results. Forgot how fun fun that trail is with an audience so close to the action. Lots of drops have not been filled in yet so I was taking air left and right. Mucho fun.

Hard to decide on a best run of the day. First tracks down Black Line to Lucifer was insanely good but it went by like a blur as I was charging hard. Completely forgot about hte big drop off halfway down Lucifer. Major air stuck, nice. Black Line to Heart was one of my better combos (roark... you missed that one late in the day) which was great including an untracked line down Black Line at 3pm to close my day. Gonif with some untracked shots at 10:30ish was sensational as well. And first tracks on Slide along with roark was sweet followed by much knee deep goodness on Wizard.

Pictures to follow. The nuts to say the least. Amazing how much work and improvement has been made in the past couple years since my last visit to Magic. Sweet. Left the mountain with TONS of tracked up powder still ready for the taking. Should ski great straight through the week and beyond with more snow coming.
 

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Stellar stellar day. Started off meeting some regulars (but new faces for me) for first chair and picked up riv along the way. Sounds like you made some good choices after I called it quits. Glad you got to hit Red Line as well. Looking forward to the pics, I'm sure you got some awesome gaperific shots of your truly drowning in the '6"'. Glad you could make it.
 

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Great day at SB as well. Nice recovery!!!!

Way to suck the life out of rad Magic report. :roll: When will we see your TR from today, Thursday or Friday? ;) :razz:
 

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Magic is "claiming" 6" but I call MAJOR bull shit. We were skiing boot deep untracked all day. 6" is just barely over my buckles. Someone go tell Magic's management that their snow reporter isn't playing with a full length ruler.

Well on one part of their site they do say now they got "close to a foot." Meanwhile, their snow report says "We did have an issue with our groomer last night and are working on getting it fixed this morning." I say I wish more ski areas had issues with their groomers ;-)

Anyway, congrats. Weird how for all the resources we now have to track weather forecasts and ski area snow reports and what not, the unexpected can still happen in a big way. At 4:30 a.m. today NWS was reporting the storm had taken a tad more southerly track and also hadn't deepened as much as expected so snow totals probably would end up a couple inches lower than forecast. So much for THAT ... MRG also reported their expected 1-3" turned into about a foot today.

For several reasons I ended up with my son and friends of his/their family at Sunapee. They honestly got 6" and it was a fun and very full day but not epic. Then again, our drive up was "only" two hours without tires touching pavement. And happily we passed Derry on 93 north long before the 59-vehicle pileup there ...
 

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Glad you made the drive and had a great time Steve. I didn't think you'd be disappointed. Sounds like Magic is getting good. I need to get up there after a storm soon!
 

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Glad you made the drive and had a great time Steve. I didn't think you'd be disappointed. Sounds like Magic is getting good. I need to get up there after a storm soon!
Two storms in the next week. This coming weekend would probably be a fine time. Everything except Master is good to go... especially after two more storms.
 

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I'm getting up there for the first time next week. I have Monday, Wednesday, and Friday off (Monday is reserved for Okemo) so I'll be there likely that Friday but if theres a good chance Wednesday looks better I'll go Wednesday instead. I'm starting to get sick of skiing groomers, definitely need this chance of pace from Magic.
 

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Friday is $15 day, if that makes a difference. The forecast is for bitter cold however. Regardless, it's well worth the trip. Great contrast to Okemo.
 

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Man... you guys might not want to look at these pictures..... :lol:

Roark Knee Deep on Slide of Hans
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Another of Roark on Slide of Hans
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Typical Last Run of the Day on a Powder Day: Black Line at Magic
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Photo Gallery or in a Slide Show
 

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Nice pics Steve. Looks like a typical busy day at Magic...

That pic of Blackline at 3pm looks about how it looked after last chair the last time we were there.
 
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