jaywbigred
Active member
There are already posts for 2/11 and 2/13 so I will throw one in for 2/12.
Mountain skied well on Saturday, though there is definitely some scratch coming through later in the day. We were out for AM Express a touch after 7:30 and got 5 runs in before meeting the rest of our crew at 8:30. Crowds were fairly heavy after 10, and the Grand Summit singles line continues to grow as it was 6 lanes and took 12 minutes to load (longest I have ever waited). I believe it was starting to become a wash vs. waiting in the regular line at peak times. We skied the main face cruisers before 8:30, then hit the North Face. Took my first 2 runs of the season down Ripcord. In spots the snow was great, and in others it was real scratchy. There were some funky moguls in their early stages with visible glaze on the back side, so you had to pick your spots to turn. A nice challenge though, and I still underestimate how steep parts of that trail are.
We hit Fallen Timbers and Olympic repeatedly, but my venture onto Chute left me without desire to ski more bumps, as they were pretty scratchy and lacking in many good lines. I have been spoiled by too many good spring bump days at Mt. Snow the last few years, so I get dismayed at icy, poorly spaced February bumps. I know, weak sauce.
As stated in other threads, the Dippers in Sunbrook skied fantastic, but the lines over there were fairly long, probably bc of the USSA kids in the mogul comp on Bear Trap. Speaking of which, we made the mistake of venturing into the open-to-the-public skier's right bumps, and they were complete glaze still mostly. I was actually surprised they were open. Called it a day around 1 in order to get home in time to watch the Buckeye basketball game (a tough loss, but a necessary one I think), then home for naps-->happy hour-->dinner--> Hot Dog and Better Off Dead viewing before an early-for-us midnight bedtime.
Mountain skied well on Saturday, though there is definitely some scratch coming through later in the day. We were out for AM Express a touch after 7:30 and got 5 runs in before meeting the rest of our crew at 8:30. Crowds were fairly heavy after 10, and the Grand Summit singles line continues to grow as it was 6 lanes and took 12 minutes to load (longest I have ever waited). I believe it was starting to become a wash vs. waiting in the regular line at peak times. We skied the main face cruisers before 8:30, then hit the North Face. Took my first 2 runs of the season down Ripcord. In spots the snow was great, and in others it was real scratchy. There were some funky moguls in their early stages with visible glaze on the back side, so you had to pick your spots to turn. A nice challenge though, and I still underestimate how steep parts of that trail are.
We hit Fallen Timbers and Olympic repeatedly, but my venture onto Chute left me without desire to ski more bumps, as they were pretty scratchy and lacking in many good lines. I have been spoiled by too many good spring bump days at Mt. Snow the last few years, so I get dismayed at icy, poorly spaced February bumps. I know, weak sauce.
As stated in other threads, the Dippers in Sunbrook skied fantastic, but the lines over there were fairly long, probably bc of the USSA kids in the mogul comp on Bear Trap. Speaking of which, we made the mistake of venturing into the open-to-the-public skier's right bumps, and they were complete glaze still mostly. I was actually surprised they were open. Called it a day around 1 in order to get home in time to watch the Buckeye basketball game (a tough loss, but a necessary one I think), then home for naps-->happy hour-->dinner--> Hot Dog and Better Off Dead viewing before an early-for-us midnight bedtime.
