loafer89
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Area Skied: Mount Snow, Vermont
Date Skied: March 3rd from 9:30am - 4:15pm
Surface conditions: powder, packed powder ( 3" of new snow in the afternoon)
My son, my friend and I started the day at Mount Snow by parking in the fairly empty Carinthia parking lot at 9am and we soon where on the slopes taking the Nitro Express to Milky Way and up the Sunbowl area and down Cloud Nine and Thanks Walt. Conditions in the groomed areas where okay, but any powder left on the trail edges had a nasty crust of ice on top of it so we stayed away from anything not groomed in the early morning.
Getting back to Carinthia by taking the Beartrap Double allowed us to ski Name This Park which had great groomed packed powder and Titanium which had soft snow on it as well. Next up was Long John/Deer Run down and past a non operating Sundance Triple:-x to the Grand Summit Express which had a monsterous lift line which we passed on and on to the Summit Local. The Summit Local stopped more than it ran on the way to the top and a normal 13 minute ride turned into 25 minutes:angry: .
We skied Upper Choke/Choke which had great snow and lots of loose powder snow on the edges to Standard which seemed like it had been groomed with a garden roto-tiller. At this point in time (11:00am) it began to snow fitfully for the next hour as we made our way through the lift maze for the Canyon Express.
Next up we skied down River Run to an empty lift line for the Outpost Triple and on up to Fallen Timbers. Fallen Timbers had great snow with big soft bumps for the most part, but was terribly overcrowded with way too many people on the trail to feel safe. Next up was a ride on the Challenger Triple for a run down Plummet which was really icy at the start, but better further on down with lots of soft snow in most spots.
By the time that we got back up to the summit with the Challenger Triple a heavy wet snow had started to fall again, and kept on doing so until 3pm. We skied down Committed/Canyon/Standard and back onto the painfully slow and fitfully operating Summit Local. In the 20+ minutes that it took to get to the summit better than 2" of new snow had fallen and we got powder turns in on Upper Exhibition/Tramline/Link and Sundance and it was snowing so hard it was difficult to see very far ahead of you.
We breaked for lunch at 1pm eating sandwiches in our car as the Carinthia Base Lodge was completly full. After lunch Mount Snow had been transformed into a powder paradise with 3" of new snow on the ground and no crowds. We took 4 runs down Claim Jumper Glade which had great soft snow and moguls and a run on the now operating Sundance Triple down a creamy soft Ridge and we ended our day with one last run down Claim Jumper at 4:00pm.
Claim Jumper Glade:
Date Skied: March 3rd from 9:30am - 4:15pm
Surface conditions: powder, packed powder ( 3" of new snow in the afternoon)
My son, my friend and I started the day at Mount Snow by parking in the fairly empty Carinthia parking lot at 9am and we soon where on the slopes taking the Nitro Express to Milky Way and up the Sunbowl area and down Cloud Nine and Thanks Walt. Conditions in the groomed areas where okay, but any powder left on the trail edges had a nasty crust of ice on top of it so we stayed away from anything not groomed in the early morning.
Getting back to Carinthia by taking the Beartrap Double allowed us to ski Name This Park which had great groomed packed powder and Titanium which had soft snow on it as well. Next up was Long John/Deer Run down and past a non operating Sundance Triple:-x to the Grand Summit Express which had a monsterous lift line which we passed on and on to the Summit Local. The Summit Local stopped more than it ran on the way to the top and a normal 13 minute ride turned into 25 minutes:angry: .
We skied Upper Choke/Choke which had great snow and lots of loose powder snow on the edges to Standard which seemed like it had been groomed with a garden roto-tiller. At this point in time (11:00am) it began to snow fitfully for the next hour as we made our way through the lift maze for the Canyon Express.
Next up we skied down River Run to an empty lift line for the Outpost Triple and on up to Fallen Timbers. Fallen Timbers had great snow with big soft bumps for the most part, but was terribly overcrowded with way too many people on the trail to feel safe. Next up was a ride on the Challenger Triple for a run down Plummet which was really icy at the start, but better further on down with lots of soft snow in most spots.
By the time that we got back up to the summit with the Challenger Triple a heavy wet snow had started to fall again, and kept on doing so until 3pm. We skied down Committed/Canyon/Standard and back onto the painfully slow and fitfully operating Summit Local. In the 20+ minutes that it took to get to the summit better than 2" of new snow had fallen and we got powder turns in on Upper Exhibition/Tramline/Link and Sundance and it was snowing so hard it was difficult to see very far ahead of you.
We breaked for lunch at 1pm eating sandwiches in our car as the Carinthia Base Lodge was completly full. After lunch Mount Snow had been transformed into a powder paradise with 3" of new snow on the ground and no crowds. We took 4 runs down Claim Jumper Glade which had great soft snow and moguls and a run on the now operating Sundance Triple down a creamy soft Ridge and we ended our day with one last run down Claim Jumper at 4:00pm.
Claim Jumper Glade:
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