Magic Mountain, VT: 02/28/2013

[billski]

Wildcat started out like that, but it didn't take long for people to break up the crust and it skied much better.

That's one of the downsides of low volume mountains. It's a two-edged sword. On good days, you have the place to yourself.

 

[Hado226]

Best days from this past storm Thursday and probably today/tomorrow, yesterday was work! The wet that froze overnight Thursday into Friday and wasn't groomed was very difficult snow. Cut up and frozen that way. By late day traffic was starting to break it up in places Goniff was really skiing nice at days end. Vertigo and everything ungroomed from that point down to the base was really nasty and will stay that way until it is warmed up again or groomed.

 

[bheemsoth]

Any updates from today?

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[gmcunni]

Any updates from today?

a friend PM'd me with

Magic was great today! Lots of snow finally!

 

[polski]

Best days from this past storm Thursday and probably today/tomorrow, yesterday was work! The wet that froze overnight Thursday into Friday and wasn't groomed was very difficult snow. Cut up and frozen that way. By late day traffic was starting to break it up in places Goniff was really skiing nice at days end.

Human groomin'!

Been too busy to post TRs but I'll throw this in here by comparison - skinned/skied the Gulf of Slides Trail on Mt Washington on Thursday and by the time I came down - late morning - it was sticky but turns still could be made. I was mildly kicking myself for not getting up in time for dawn patrol (I started up a little after 8:30) when the run would have been surfy pow but I only have so many 3 a.m. departures in me and I'd done one of them the week before. Yesterday I skied the Cog from Jacob's Ladder at the end of the day (I'm taking an avy course) on 4" of new snow and there was no crust nor other issues - plenty of tracks by then of course but plenty of patches of untracked too. Much fun. Today up into somewhere in Tuckerman Ravine, not too high up I suspect given avy risk.