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Mount Snow 1/24/2010

Euler

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Skied Mt. Snow yesterday from about 11-3:30 and had a great time enjoying the primo conditions before the rain came. We split the day so my son (9) could lead us to his choice trails before lunch, and then my daughter got to take the lead after lunch. Son is a wannabe park rat so he kept us at Carinthia where he took us down Mineshaft (I stayed out of the minipipe – kids loved it!) to Prospector – Nitro. My kids hit the little lips next to the rails and what not, but don’t yet get up on any of the jibs.



Second run was through the trees formerly known as Claimjumper, then his shift finished with a run all the way down Nitro. Conditions were uniformly good…I was shocked how good the trees were…just doesn’t seem like we’ve gotten enough natural to have the trees skiing this good.

Going back to Sundance lodge for lunch we skied the new section of seeded bumps on whatever the rail is just above the Sundance lodge…another great section of bumps to learn on at Mt. Snow…I guess the mgmt there is reading this board a lot this year because they are letting bumps grow all over the mountain!

After lunch, my daughter (12)wanted to lead us on a tour of the four “faces” of mount snow. We began with the trees formerly known as The Boonies…also great conditions in there. It was amazing to be skiing on lovely soft snow through the trees, and seeing the trail One More Time that parallels these trees scraped down to grass, rock and ice in many places. I guess the best snow is where others don’t go…

Next up was Plummet! ROTD for sure, the trail saw a few days of snowmaking about a week or so ago and hasn’t been groomed so it’s set up as moguls on top of snowmaking whales…It was just great and I was super proud of the three of us being able to navigate it with a reasonable amount of aplomb.

Clouds and freezing mist rolled in at about this time. We headed down into the Sunbrook area and hit up the trees formerly known as Dark Side of the Moon. These trees are much tighter than the other two areas we’d been in. Also, I need to figure out how to keep my line more to the right I think to stay in them all the way down. I always pop out early from that glade.

We then went up te Beartrap lift and saw that the disastrous “seeded moguls” had been mown down. That trail just simply needs some natural snow to grow good bumps I guess.
Did another run down Mineshaft-Prospector-Nitro then headed back to the Sundance lodge and called it a day…an amazing day!
I’ll be back Weds to see how the recovery from today’s rain disaster is coming along.
 
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vcunning

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Cool video and a great way to explore the mountain. Every once and a while, I let my 10-year old pick the trails. He usually gets me into places I'd rather not be.

I do miss the rollers that were on Mineshaft though.

Did you really not do that half pipe? I can't imagine why. ;)

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Euler

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Did you really not do that half pipe? I can't imagine why. ;)

VC

My son wanted to ski the superpipe...I was glad it was closed! He did manage to pop all the way out of the mini-pipe up on to the upper deck...he was so proud. It made my shoulder ache just watching:eek:
 

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No mini pipe? I'm shocked! ;-)

That sounds like a solid day. I had to look at my trail map to figure out where those seeded bumps were just off to the side of Tumbleweed; "Cooper's Junction". We ski that trail every weekend and I never knew the name. Although, that's par for the course for me...I can navigate via sight...just don't ask me trail or lift names. :lol:

I'll check that vid out at home. Sound like you guys did an awesome tour of the mountain. It's really fun to just explore sometimes and see where you'll end up. I love finding those surprise good runs of the day; the unexpected ones because you took a random trail for the heck of it.

Here's to hoping things are OK after yesterday's weather disaster. Did a lot of snow vanish in Putney?
 

drjeff

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No mini pipe? I'm shocked! ;-)

I was totally rocking the mini pipe on Sunday! Pulling back to back to back switch 9's in that thing (and then I woke up and realized that I'm a late 30's guy that would likely just pull most of the muscles in my body if I tried to pull a 9! (and that would likely just be a 9 degree spin, not a 900 degree spin) ;) :lol: :lol:
 

Euler

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No mini pipe? I'm shocked! ;-)
Here's to hoping things are OK after yesterday's weather disaster. Did a lot of snow vanish in Putney?

Yeah...the shaded areas in the woods are still pretty well covered, not skiable, but covered with a solid base that will give a good foundation for the next storm. Any open fields got pretty well washed out. Lots of grass and mud showing through. I'll post some pix tomorrow to let you see how Mt. Snow's holding up.
 

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Yeah...the shaded areas in the woods are still pretty well covered, not skiable, but covered with a solid base that will give a good foundation for the next storm. Any open fields got pretty well washed out. Lots of grass and mud showing through. I'll post some pix tomorrow to let you see how Mt. Snow's holding up.

Cool! Keep us posted! At least the temps will be good for snow making. But one of the things I like about going up to VT is all the snow in our yard. It's a nice change from the brown grass CT winter.
 
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