Resort: Mount Snow
Date Skied 01/06/07 - 11:30 to 2:30pm
Conditions: Cloudy, spring like 60 degrees, no rain!!!!!!
Trip Report: I decided to go skiing on Saturday instead of going up to Pico on Sunday. The weather forecast called for the rain to stop late morning / early afternoon. I checked the Mount Snow trail report and they reported summit lifts delayed opening until ski patrol can check the conditions (or something like that). This was around 9am. I figured worse case scenario the Summit Express lifts will not run but the Canyon quad and possibly a North Face lift would be open by the time I arrive.
I parked at Sundance with about 100 other cars and I saw the Tumbleweed lift was operating. I booted up and wore my NF rain jacket and headed over to the lift. To my surprise there was a huge lift line, but why??? Was it that everybody decided to ski Sundance today?? As I got on the lift and talked to another rider, I was informed that this was the only mountain lift open. As the lift ascended I looked to my right and could see both summit lifts were not turning. I could not see anything on the main mountain turning.
Getting off of the lift was an adventure as I was told it was going to be. It seemed like a majority of boarders and skiers just stopped and blocked people from exiting the lift properly. There should have been a lift attendant up there telling people to move. The snow was heavy, with bare spots, as expected. There was only one way down from here. I think it may have consisted of three or four trails. I got to the connector where you could ski over to the main mountain and in the distance I did see a lift turn, so like the other people I skied towards it. As I got closer I realized it was not the Canyon Quad, but the double or triple lift over in the learning area. It was a fun trek back to the Sundance lift.
I now know why there was so many people skiing over at Sundance, this is the only lift and trail opened. I made the best of it, on the crowded trail. There was a nice jump on this trail, and that was about it.
Over in the old Mixing Bowl area they had some type of rail jam event going. I called it quits around 2:30 as it started to rain. I walked over to the deli in the Grand Summit and had an awesome and reasonably priced lunch. They were serving a beef brisket dinner, garlic mashed potatoes and green beans (not the cheap canned ones) for $7.95. I could not believe it was that cheap and that good!
I was happy to get out today and enjoy the spring skiing. I did take some pictures of Mount Snow as I was leaving. They are kind of depressing though.
From in front of the Grand Summit hotel, the Mixing bowl to the right and the open terrain towards the left.
Carinthia. The ½ pipe’s got snow:
Date Skied 01/06/07 - 11:30 to 2:30pm
Conditions: Cloudy, spring like 60 degrees, no rain!!!!!!
Trip Report: I decided to go skiing on Saturday instead of going up to Pico on Sunday. The weather forecast called for the rain to stop late morning / early afternoon. I checked the Mount Snow trail report and they reported summit lifts delayed opening until ski patrol can check the conditions (or something like that). This was around 9am. I figured worse case scenario the Summit Express lifts will not run but the Canyon quad and possibly a North Face lift would be open by the time I arrive.
I parked at Sundance with about 100 other cars and I saw the Tumbleweed lift was operating. I booted up and wore my NF rain jacket and headed over to the lift. To my surprise there was a huge lift line, but why??? Was it that everybody decided to ski Sundance today?? As I got on the lift and talked to another rider, I was informed that this was the only mountain lift open. As the lift ascended I looked to my right and could see both summit lifts were not turning. I could not see anything on the main mountain turning.
Getting off of the lift was an adventure as I was told it was going to be. It seemed like a majority of boarders and skiers just stopped and blocked people from exiting the lift properly. There should have been a lift attendant up there telling people to move. The snow was heavy, with bare spots, as expected. There was only one way down from here. I think it may have consisted of three or four trails. I got to the connector where you could ski over to the main mountain and in the distance I did see a lift turn, so like the other people I skied towards it. As I got closer I realized it was not the Canyon Quad, but the double or triple lift over in the learning area. It was a fun trek back to the Sundance lift.
I now know why there was so many people skiing over at Sundance, this is the only lift and trail opened. I made the best of it, on the crowded trail. There was a nice jump on this trail, and that was about it.
Over in the old Mixing Bowl area they had some type of rail jam event going. I called it quits around 2:30 as it started to rain. I walked over to the deli in the Grand Summit and had an awesome and reasonably priced lunch. They were serving a beef brisket dinner, garlic mashed potatoes and green beans (not the cheap canned ones) for $7.95. I could not believe it was that cheap and that good!
I was happy to get out today and enjoy the spring skiing. I did take some pictures of Mount Snow as I was leaving. They are kind of depressing though.
From in front of the Grand Summit hotel, the Mixing bowl to the right and the open terrain towards the left.
Carinthia. The ½ pipe’s got snow:
