drjeff
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Date: 2-23-09
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions Tough to tell what the final snowfall total was due to the wind, but I'd estimate at ATLEAST 10" to maybe 14", of fairly light + dry powder
Winds started around 8PM Sunday night and kept blowing which resulted in some DEEP drifts is places as well as some wind slab and even a few very exposed places where it was blown off to the underlying hardpack. Generally though LOTS of powder, temps in the teens, a mix of sun and clouds and some decent wind.
Report: Woke upto to about a 4 foot deep drift by my front door, now granted my place drifts in pretty good, but there are some SERIOUS snowbanks outside my place right now (for reference sake, my wife is 5'6"
Got on the hill just after 9 and got a few quick runs in off Canyon Quad as my wife was dealing with her uncooperative feet. I went the upper 1/3rd of Snowdance (recent groom/windblown ) and then cut over the Lower Canyon to Illusion which had a solid 10" or so of nice fluff! Followed up with a run down Overbrook which was sweet from the powder bumps on the headwall down through the rollers and gully below.
My wife finally had her feet feeling cooperative(read as warm) and we went back up Canyon Quad for a lap through Choke to Lower Exhibition (more sweetness) and then up top. With the wind blowing quite briskly, I wasn't sure how much wind slab I'd find. I went down Hop
which had between maybe 3" to close to 18" of fresh depending on what the wind had done with it and a variable amount of wind slab on top which made scoring untracked lines highly variable. My wife took Ridge which as she put it "wasn't worth a 2nd run" due to wind scour. We then altered our plans and decided to focus on narrow trails and trees for the rest of the time.
Uncles - very sweet Cut Off - sweet too. A quick trip back over to Canyon quad to watch the kids for a few minutes lead to a SWEET run down a well drifted skiers left of One More Time and into The Boonies which was deep and sweet!
Then, I hit for me what was paydirt! Back uptop and started lapping Upper Exhibtion (GREAT along the ropeline next to the Summit Local) to Upper ledge (HUGE sweet drifts along skiers left!)
Then I'd cut over to Upper lodge just above the headwall and was getting face shots down skiers left of the headwall run after run. Then I'd take my favorite part of the day, the trail that is a trail but isn't on the trail map, the lift line under the middle portion of The Summit Local. From basically the bottom of the Lodge headwall down to the top of Pat's Pitch, the whole thing was deep and the left side was REALLY deep, and thanks to the wind, refills were prevalent and sweet! This was the ROTD for me!
Then to the base it was sweet pow bumps on Pat's Pitch over to skiers's right of Standard and down through Charlie's Chase to the Grand Summit Express. Then repeat until a serious case of jello legs hit me around 12:30 and it was time to get the kids and head home.
Great, great day!
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions Tough to tell what the final snowfall total was due to the wind, but I'd estimate at ATLEAST 10" to maybe 14", of fairly light + dry powder
Winds started around 8PM Sunday night and kept blowing which resulted in some DEEP drifts is places as well as some wind slab and even a few very exposed places where it was blown off to the underlying hardpack. Generally though LOTS of powder, temps in the teens, a mix of sun and clouds and some decent wind.Report: Woke upto to about a 4 foot deep drift by my front door, now granted my place drifts in pretty good, but there are some SERIOUS snowbanks outside my place right now (for reference sake, my wife is 5'6"
Got on the hill just after 9 and got a few quick runs in off Canyon Quad as my wife was dealing with her uncooperative feet. I went the upper 1/3rd of Snowdance (recent groom/windblown
) and then cut over the Lower Canyon to Illusion which had a solid 10" or so of nice fluff! Followed up with a run down Overbrook which was sweet from the powder bumps on the headwall down through the rollers and gully below. My wife finally had her feet feeling cooperative(read as warm) and we went back up Canyon Quad for a lap through Choke to Lower Exhibition (more sweetness) and then up top. With the wind blowing quite briskly, I wasn't sure how much wind slab I'd find. I went down Hop
which had between maybe 3" to close to 18" of fresh depending on what the wind had done with it and a variable amount of wind slab on top which made scoring untracked lines highly variable. My wife took Ridge which as she put it "wasn't worth a 2nd run" due to wind scour. We then altered our plans and decided to focus on narrow trails and trees for the rest of the time.
Uncles - very sweet
Cut Off - sweet too. A quick trip back over to Canyon quad to watch the kids for a few minutes lead to a SWEET run down a well drifted skiers left of One More Time and into The Boonies which was deep and sweet!Then, I hit for me what was paydirt! Back uptop and started lapping Upper Exhibtion (GREAT along the ropeline next to the Summit Local) to Upper ledge (HUGE sweet drifts along skiers left!)
Then I'd cut over to Upper lodge just above the headwall and was getting face shots down skiers left of the headwall run after run. Then I'd take my favorite part of the day, the trail that is a trail but isn't on the trail map, the lift line under the middle portion of The Summit Local. From basically the bottom of the Lodge headwall down to the top of Pat's Pitch, the whole thing was deep and the left side was REALLY deep, and thanks to the wind, refills were prevalent and sweet! This was the ROTD for me!
Then to the base it was sweet pow bumps on Pat's Pitch over to skiers's right of Standard and down through Charlie's Chase to the Grand Summit Express. Then repeat until a serious case of jello legs hit me around 12:30 and it was time to get the kids and head home.
Great, great day!
