riverc0il
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AZ users riverc0il, bob r, and bvibert met up in the lodge at Magic Mountain for the Gathering, meeting up with MrMagic on the slopes later in the day.
The morning began with beautiful weather and conditions though it was cloudy most of the day with clouds burning off to allow for decent views towards the afternoon. Magic Mountain had 100% of it's terrain open with about somewhere between a quarter to a third left ungroomed.
We begin with a warm up run down Medium to Vertigo with nice packed powder opening up to some big arcs down low. Next up was Trick to Wand to Showoff; getting in Trick before it scraped up to much. Over on Talisman, a thin groomed track was run down the center with natural and bumps on either side. I liked skier's right up top and skier's left down low while Bob R and bvibert tended to stick to the groomed patch that was definitely anything but courdoroy! I wanted to show the guys Broomstick which is a great narrow trail off the top of the mountain. However, Bob's knee was recovering and needed a stress free day of skiing. Despite Broomstick looking flat, I feared Heart of Magician and Lucifer were likely bumped. I volunteered to inspect any ways by way of Master Magician (a guy's gotta have his fun :lol: ). I took Master skier's right and I think I overheard a fellow AZ buddy mention the words sick and nuts in the same sentance :beer: but I wasn't sure. Skier's left was fantastic! I only hit three rocks but I scored nearly untouched snow which was by far the best on the mountain. Later I hit Master again skier's through the trees which was dust on crust and dust on ice, not so good. I found out Broomstick was unfortuantely not doable without hitting very user unfriendly bumps on Heart or Lucifer. Before heading in for lunch, I noticed Red Line that began with lots of untouched snow from last week's storm was starting to get ugly. A lot of base melted since last week and more sticks and rock were showing forth than I had expected. Pre-lunch was definitely go time for Red Line. I executed a really ugly set of jumps of the rock cliff, one of which had me spun around backwards with my arm around a tree :blink: but no harm no foul. I followed that masterpiece up by bairly sticking the next five foot drop. It wasn't my day on Red Line, that was for sure. Below the cliffs the bumps were sweet but conditions were thin. I wasn't tempted to repeat and was glad to get that outta my system before too much more traffic took all the snow off the trail.
Before going in for some food and suds :beer: we found MrMagic at the top of the double. Great to meet you man! We made some more sweet carves re-covering all the trails we hit in the morning and adding a few cruisers we missed. Conditions stayed great on most trails with exception of Trick and Talisman which saw some deteroration. While skiing Wizard, I took the Slide of Hans option which produced okay bumps but nothing to write home about on one of my normally favorite bump lines.
bvibert made the observation around 3pm that you could still see groomer tracks on the edges of some trails. Yup! Magic is one incredibly uncrowded mountain for sure! I finished off on Goniff Glade but probably should have hit Twilight Zone instead. Decent bumps with a touch of roughness but overall a phenomenal showing on Goniff for this late in the game.
Thanks guys! It was great skiing with you and feel free to add some more details to the report on what ever I missed. I will have a few pictures up in a few moments. My camera died halfway through the day, so I didn't get too many shots.
The morning began with beautiful weather and conditions though it was cloudy most of the day with clouds burning off to allow for decent views towards the afternoon. Magic Mountain had 100% of it's terrain open with about somewhere between a quarter to a third left ungroomed.
We begin with a warm up run down Medium to Vertigo with nice packed powder opening up to some big arcs down low. Next up was Trick to Wand to Showoff; getting in Trick before it scraped up to much. Over on Talisman, a thin groomed track was run down the center with natural and bumps on either side. I liked skier's right up top and skier's left down low while Bob R and bvibert tended to stick to the groomed patch that was definitely anything but courdoroy! I wanted to show the guys Broomstick which is a great narrow trail off the top of the mountain. However, Bob's knee was recovering and needed a stress free day of skiing. Despite Broomstick looking flat, I feared Heart of Magician and Lucifer were likely bumped. I volunteered to inspect any ways by way of Master Magician (a guy's gotta have his fun :lol: ). I took Master skier's right and I think I overheard a fellow AZ buddy mention the words sick and nuts in the same sentance :beer: but I wasn't sure. Skier's left was fantastic! I only hit three rocks but I scored nearly untouched snow which was by far the best on the mountain. Later I hit Master again skier's through the trees which was dust on crust and dust on ice, not so good. I found out Broomstick was unfortuantely not doable without hitting very user unfriendly bumps on Heart or Lucifer. Before heading in for lunch, I noticed Red Line that began with lots of untouched snow from last week's storm was starting to get ugly. A lot of base melted since last week and more sticks and rock were showing forth than I had expected. Pre-lunch was definitely go time for Red Line. I executed a really ugly set of jumps of the rock cliff, one of which had me spun around backwards with my arm around a tree :blink: but no harm no foul. I followed that masterpiece up by bairly sticking the next five foot drop. It wasn't my day on Red Line, that was for sure. Below the cliffs the bumps were sweet but conditions were thin. I wasn't tempted to repeat and was glad to get that outta my system before too much more traffic took all the snow off the trail.
Before going in for some food and suds :beer: we found MrMagic at the top of the double. Great to meet you man! We made some more sweet carves re-covering all the trails we hit in the morning and adding a few cruisers we missed. Conditions stayed great on most trails with exception of Trick and Talisman which saw some deteroration. While skiing Wizard, I took the Slide of Hans option which produced okay bumps but nothing to write home about on one of my normally favorite bump lines.
bvibert made the observation around 3pm that you could still see groomer tracks on the edges of some trails. Yup! Magic is one incredibly uncrowded mountain for sure! I finished off on Goniff Glade but probably should have hit Twilight Zone instead. Decent bumps with a touch of roughness but overall a phenomenal showing on Goniff for this late in the game.
Thanks guys! It was great skiing with you and feel free to add some more details to the report on what ever I missed. I will have a few pictures up in a few moments. My camera died halfway through the day, so I didn't get too many shots.
Thanks for showing us around and humoring us on the groomers for most of the day. I was amazed how few people were there and how nice the conditions stayed all day.
