Euler
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Date(s) Skied: 2/23
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow
Conditions: Packed Powder, loose tracked fresh, man made. About 3-5 inches fell Friday.
Trip Report:
Skied from 8:30-1:30 with my family and my daughter's friend. A really great day.
Parked at Carinthia and began with a run down Nitro. Beautiful groomed cruiser with a great snow surface. Then the kids and I took a trip into the trees in an area called Claim Jumper, just to the side of Nitro. These skied great. The bumps are getting big in there, but the snow was good. I worried that there would be an icy crust lurking beneath the fresh snow, but I didn't notice it.
We wanted to ski some main face trails, but didn't want to go near the main lifts over there so we headed over to the Sundance lift. This is a mid-mountain lift, and as expected there was no line at it mid morning on a Saturday! From this lift we skied Uncles which had been groomed, but is always a fun trail - a sepentine trail that winds through the woods. Next up was Hop - this trail is more of a cruiser and was ungroomed. Hop is a non-snowmaking trail with a decent pitch and it was lots of fun with loose powder bumps starting to form over a very hardpack/ice/boilerplate base.
Kids needed bathroom/snack breaks at this point so we headed back to the Carinthia lodge for refueling.
Did a quick trip up the Heavy Metal double and down Stuggers Chute. Another cruiser with a perfect surface.
Next headed over to Sunbrook. This was a great call, the sun came out and there was no liftline to speak of over there either. We skied Big Dipper 3X before calling it a day. Big Dipper is a natural snow trail that I rarely get to ski and I really enjoyed it. It's pretty flat for most of it, but it's long, winding way out in the back area of Mount Snow, the sun shines on it, and it's usually pretty deserted.
On the way back to the lodge I did a quick run down Beartrap and again found great snow. The snowmakers had blasted this trail this week and it was set up with nice moguls, varying from (to me) scary big on skiers right to pretty tame on skiers left. I went more or less down the middle and loved it. Other than the top 20 feet, there was nothing on the entire pitch that could even remotely be described as icy.
Resort or Ski Area: Mount Snow
Conditions: Packed Powder, loose tracked fresh, man made. About 3-5 inches fell Friday.
Trip Report:
Skied from 8:30-1:30 with my family and my daughter's friend. A really great day.
Parked at Carinthia and began with a run down Nitro. Beautiful groomed cruiser with a great snow surface. Then the kids and I took a trip into the trees in an area called Claim Jumper, just to the side of Nitro. These skied great. The bumps are getting big in there, but the snow was good. I worried that there would be an icy crust lurking beneath the fresh snow, but I didn't notice it.
We wanted to ski some main face trails, but didn't want to go near the main lifts over there so we headed over to the Sundance lift. This is a mid-mountain lift, and as expected there was no line at it mid morning on a Saturday! From this lift we skied Uncles which had been groomed, but is always a fun trail - a sepentine trail that winds through the woods. Next up was Hop - this trail is more of a cruiser and was ungroomed. Hop is a non-snowmaking trail with a decent pitch and it was lots of fun with loose powder bumps starting to form over a very hardpack/ice/boilerplate base.
Kids needed bathroom/snack breaks at this point so we headed back to the Carinthia lodge for refueling.
Did a quick trip up the Heavy Metal double and down Stuggers Chute. Another cruiser with a perfect surface.
Next headed over to Sunbrook. This was a great call, the sun came out and there was no liftline to speak of over there either. We skied Big Dipper 3X before calling it a day. Big Dipper is a natural snow trail that I rarely get to ski and I really enjoyed it. It's pretty flat for most of it, but it's long, winding way out in the back area of Mount Snow, the sun shines on it, and it's usually pretty deserted.
On the way back to the lodge I did a quick run down Beartrap and again found great snow. The snowmakers had blasted this trail this week and it was set up with nice moguls, varying from (to me) scary big on skiers right to pretty tame on skiers left. I went more or less down the middle and loved it. Other than the top 20 feet, there was nothing on the entire pitch that could even remotely be described as icy.
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