Mount Snow 1/2/2010

[Euler]

Made it out with my family today from 8 to about 1. Parked at Sundance, front row. I used to use Carinthia as my home base but have switched to Sundance since the whole "all terrain" thing at Carinthia started last year. We headed to the Summit Express to enjoy it before the crowds swelled. It had snowed a couple inches overnight and was still snowing lightly while we skied.

Our first run was down Lodge - just fabulous, soft snow, some cuf deep powder to be found on the edges. Next, back up the Summit Express to Uncles...my ROTD, Uncles is SO FUN to ski with a pack of kids, makes me feel like a kid again! After this we scooted over to Sunbrook and sampled Thanks Walt, which was lovely soft snow like Lodge...had been groomed overnight, but the few inches of fresh on it made it ski great. Next was Big Dipper...a natural trail so some thin cover, bumps forming with scraped of ice in some of the steeper sections.

I indulged my son next with an hour on Grommet where he practiced his 180s and worked on his jibbing technique.

Finished the day after lunch with one more run from the Summit via Uncles.

I didn't get over to the North Face so I can't report on the bumps there, but based on Uncles and some parts of Big Dipper, I'd guess trails like Jaws and Fallen Timbers are bumped up nicely. The trail I saw WITHOUT bumps was Beartrap...its just some steep boilerplate right now.

All in all, a fun day...I'll probably head back tomorrow from 8 to 11 with just my 9 yr old for a little father-son skiing.

 

[MikeW]

Good Skiing

Real nice day at Mt Sneaux-Light snow all day, sun peeking through just enough so the light wasn't too flat, temp in the 20s. Got to the North Face about 8:30 for semi first tracks on Free Fall and Chute. Still some untracked. Back around to the front to meet my daughter-down Uncles, saw the bottom of Cutoff on the right, back up and down cutoff-almost completely untracked, over to Carinthia, down Rusty nail, also powder. Mine Shaft-Inferno skiing nice, Inferno with lots of terrain, no hits built yet. Lift lines not too bad, mid mountain lifts-Ego and Sundance-no lines at all. Skiid off Ego Lift-Lodge over to Roller Coaster-ex Un Blanco Gulch-a regular trail now-real nice run. Overbrook, One More Time also pretty well covered-good runs. Snow Guns on South Bowl all the way down Sundance-skiid down thru the guns in almost zero visibility. Mountain is almost completely open, I think only Ripcord remains closed. Supposed to be super windy and cold tomorrow-but looks very good for next week.

 

[SteveInCT]

I was also there on 1/2/10 and don't have much to add. It was fairly crowded on certain trails and then others were empty. It is odd how so many people follow the pack like sheep. The conditions we good and the powder was getting pushed into some decent bumps by the end of the day in certain areas. It started to snow pretty hard after lunch so the visibility of contour was rather difficult since I was skiing in full sun goggles.

All in all, it was a great time and I figured out a few things while I was there. Namely, I was skiing with my knees and quads too tight. I didn't notice it on my days at Sundown because there wasn't any fresh powder. Once I started hitting the powder on the edges yesterday, my balance was WAY off. Then, I softened up the knees and let my quads "bounce the load" and boom, I felt that familiar burn in the quads and I was bouncing over the powder bumps in control. It is always nice when something clicks like that.