Mount Snow 11/30/2008

[Euler]

Date(s) Skied: 11/30/2008

Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow

Conditions: Packed Powder, Loose Manmade, Hardpack Manmade

Trip Report: The family and I spent a few hours at Mount Snow today. We waited 'till noon Sunday so as to miss the crowds from Thanksgiving weekend.

Our plan worked, our afternoon was pretty much ski-on as far as lifts were concerned. We skied a couple runs down Snowdance, a couple down Ridge, did the upper portion of Long John to access Ridge, Upper Canyon to get to Snowdance from the Summit, and while the kids were enjoying a Cup-O-Noodles in the Lodge w/ Ms. Euler, I ventured over to check out Chute.

The trail of the day was Ridge. Nice soft, dry manmade that was getting pushed around into tiny bumps and crud. Snowdance was quite similar, just a bit more crowded. Chute and Upper Canyon were pretty scraped off. I wouldn't say they were icy but I was glad I had freshly sharpened edges on these trails. Long John, as usual, had the worst snow and the most traffic on the entire mountain. What irony that the beginners are relegated to the worst conditions...it's a wonder any make it past the green circle stage when the green circle trails at a busy mountain can be so awful.

It started to snow pretty hard just as we began our last run of the day down Snowdance. Unfortunately, it's going to turn to rain tonight...but t least it should be a cold, short lived rain. At least it will fill up the snowmaking ponds.

Here's a video of the kids on Ridge enjoying the new fan gun goods:

 

[Chris I]

your kids are going to love that vid in 30 years. good for you dad!

Chute was scrapy today, nothing bad with decent edges though. I think I may have seen 'Gabe' take a spill today, might have chuckled to myself.

 

[reefer]

Thanks for the report. Nice video. Daughter is smooth, son is crazy.......................too funny!

 

[Glenn]

Sweet vid! Nice TR!

Funny, my wife and I thought Long John was pretty good today. Although, we were pretty beat after lunch, so not having to push around too much snow was a good thing. I liked Ridge today as well. My poor wife was a bit tired, so she kinda had to muscle her way down that one.

 

[Euler]

Sweet vid! Nice TR!

Funny, my wife and I thought Long John was pretty good today. Although, we were pretty beat after lunch, so not having to push around too much snow was a good thing. I liked Ridge today as well. My poor wife was a bit tired, so she kinda had to muscle her way down that one.

Yeah...I'm just not a fan of Long John. I think you're probably right, it wasn't as crowded as other days I've been on it, and I only skiied it as far as the entrance to Ridge. I do have some bad memories associated with that trail though.

Glad to see you guys made it up 2X this weekend. Now you know what my kids look like. If you see us around give a shout. I should have an AZ sticker on my helmet soon too!

 

[Glenn]

The first part was a bit scratchy...and the wind in the afternoon was pretty strong. I thought I was going to come to a dead stop at a few points! After turning the sharp left near Carinthia, things smoothed out a bit. There was still a decent amount of soft snow on the sides of the trails. But the mix of skiers and riders is a bit interesting; now that you have people using that trail to get to one of the terrain parks.

Cool! I need to get a few stickers myself! It'll make identifying people from this board much easier.

 

[RISkier]

Long John was just plain dangerous on Saturday. Very crowded with that ugly mix of true beginners and folks who think straight lining makes them look cool. We ended up on it once thinking there were other trails that were open.