Mount Snow 2/26 and 2/27

[Glenn]

We got up to VT and there was about a foot in Dummerston on Friday evening. We hit the mountain early on Saturday and our first chair was at 7:45. The first hour we hammered out some really good runs. Most of the fresh stuff was groomed out, but the edges of many trails were still good. The Ripper was a bit icy, but most of the north face skied well. Bear trap was awesome,,,,lots of fresh stuff. There was also a good amount of fresh over on Carinthia. Fools Gold delivered. And we capped the day off at "The Snow Bar".

Today. Wow! They said we'd get a few inches. It was 7 inches when all was said and done. On the chair by 8AM. Ripped out some good first runs....untracked stuff. Really really awesome. That's pretty much how the day went. We skied fresh, chopped up fresh, powder bumps and terrain park fresh. My wife really got the hang of skiing powder and that was cool to see.

What a a weekend. My legs are tired, but it was so worth it.

 

[jaywbigred]

We got up to VT and there was about a foot in Dummerston on Friday evening. We hit the mountain early on Saturday and our first chair was at 7:45. The first hour we hammered out some really good runs. Most of the fresh stuff was groomed out, but the edges of many trails were still good. The Ripper was a bit icy, but most of the north face skied well. Bear trap was awesome,,,,lots of fresh stuff. There was also a good amount of fresh over on Carinthia. Fools Gold delivered. And we capped the day off at "The Snow Bar".

Today. Wow! They said we'd get a few inches. It was 7 inches when all was said and done. On the chair by 8AM. Ripped out some good first runs....untracked stuff. Really really awesome. That's pretty much how the day went. We skied fresh, chopped up fresh, powder bumps and terrain park fresh. My wife really got the hang of skiing powder and that was cool to see.

What a a weekend. My legs are tired, but it was so worth it.

We had fresh or quasi fresh all weekend in the trees. The snow just kept coming. It was awesome. We picked a good weekend to "get to know" the Mt. Snow tree areas, something we have barely done over the past 1.5 seasons that we have called the mountain home. I don't know any of their names bc they took them off the map right as we "got" here, but the Carinthia woods were my fave (skier's left of the quad). I am sure there are a lot of other stashes we will discover with time. Great weekend, I can barely walk.

 

[sankaty]

Great day for us, too! Fresh snow all day in the north face trees. Fallen Timbers had nice powdery bumps. No lift lines to speak of today. Just an amazing day.

 

[mlctvt]

Definitely the best weekend of the year so far.
Saturday was great but a bit crowded. We stayed away from the Grand Summit Lift most of the day so that helped, the lift lines weren't too bad the north face in the morning and the Sundance triple and sunbrook lifts.

Woke up late this morning to the surprise 5-6 inches, much better than the forecast 2-4 inches. Caught the 8:30 bus and hit the mountain around 8:45. It snowed until past noon, probably 7-8" in all,nice light powder. Ankle deep fresh powder and chop all day. Conditions were just so good I couldn't stop for long. Lunch was a bottle of water and a brownie, about 10 minutes. Too bad my legs gave out at about 2:00pm. I guess I could have kept going but I was getting sloppy and I had to stop to rest 1-2 times per run.
Today was probably my number one day of the year so far!

The whole mountain is skiing so well tight now, it really sucks that tomorrow it may r**n.

 

[MommaBear]

We had fresh or quasi fresh all weekend in the trees. The snow just kept coming. It was awesome.

The trees...were incredible. Knowing crap was coming today, I pushed to stay out there till the very end to enjoy them. Definitely a great couple of days (Thursday sucked, Friday thru Sunday awesome).

 

[Glenn]

Trees to the skier's left of Plummet...off "The Wall" were awesome yesterday morning. Only a few people had gone in there and I had an untracked line all the way down. It was sweet.

And I'd agree...this had to be the best weekend of the season at Mt. Snow. It delivered.

 

[vcunning]

I heard the Snow Bar was also awesome . . .as I am the Mayor

 

[Newpylong]

I didnt go up but I also heard the tree esp. Trials were sick this weekend.

 

[laxski]

the woods were awesome sap tapper trails fantastics had what I would describe as pillow drops down the steeps could not stop smiling.

 

[MommaBear]

...what I would describe as pillow drops...could not stop smiling.

Exactly!

 

[drjeff]

Yup, a real good weekend!

Skied most of the day Friday until my legs finally said no more after about 20 runs of non stop powder! The bonus had to be the way the wind was blowing in Friday's storm, I was lapping the Grand Summit, with no lines (I rode solo 5 times between 11 and 1:30 since there was nobody else in the queue!), the wind was at you back(not in your face!) on the lift ride! Ex-Tramline-Sap Tapper- Ego - a random mountain biking trail or two - Yardsale - back up then Ex - Ledge - Lodge - "Summit Local Liftline" - Pat's Pitch - Canyon - Charlie's Chase - back up top - repeat until my legs said enough!

Saturday - upto Killington so my daughter could race in the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge qualifier (she qualified for the finals at Mount Snow in April ) Skied K with her, not as good both in quantity and quality as the snow at Mount Snow, but watching whatever super high level mogul comp that was on Outer Limits where even some of the women competing were throwing backflips off BOTH kickers was pretty cool to see in person!

Sunday - awesome! Thanks mother nature for over delivering in a big way with some Utah quality fluff! Great weekend!

 

[arik]

totally agree

I skied sunday at Snow, the bumps were really fun and the glades, particularly a few well spaced birch glades that I love at Snow were AWESOME.

It wasn't cold, it wasn't crowded.

How great is the station taproom? I didn't know about it before, love the craft beer on tap experience.

 

[drjeff]

How great is the station taproom? I didn't know about it before, love the craft beer on tap experience.

I think I might have been there once or twice before! :lol: :beer: (and on Sunday if you happened to be there between about 2 and 3:25, I was was doing my best to both check the quality of the beers that Pete was pouring AND make sure that the corner of the bar wasn't going to suddenly shift!) :lol:

 

[Glenn]

I think I might have been there once or twice before! :lol: :beer: (and on Sunday if you happened to be there between about 2 and 3:25, I was was doing my best to both check the quality of the beers that Pete was pouring AND make sure that the corner of the bar wasn't going to suddenly shift!) :lol:

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