chocolateSkiBunny
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Date(s) Skied: Saturday Feb. 26 2005
Resort or Ski Area: Mountain Creek, Vernon NJ
Conditions: Packed powder, some ice patches and thin cover
Trip Report:
I was last at Mountain Creek two years ago, and still have vivid memories of how crappy their rental skis were. I rented from the McAfee shop near Mountain Creek's South Peak area, and if they were any more forgiving, they could qualify for the priesthood. I'm sure used to doing face plants when I hear the sound of an ice patch, it really took me by surprise that I was still on my feet!
Warmed up the ski legs on a South Peak intermediate slopes--It's like riding a bike, isn't it--the legs remember what to do
Over on Bear Peak, there was a high school race going on, and most of the black diamond trails were closed due to thin cover . It's a designated "family area" where you're supposed to ride at "lower intermediate" speeds on weekends and holidays. Fine, but wouldn't it be more useful to have such an area were six of the eight trails WEREN'T black?
Vernon Peak was the usual madhouse, with snowboarding demonstrations and twenty-minute waits to get on their eight-pasenger standing room only Cabriolet lift. That's where most of the black diamond trails are, but half of them are freestyle trails with rails and kickers and things. I'm not ready for that yet--give me a few more days.
One of the freestyle trails was Half-Moon--way to steep and bumpy for me. But the less steep Lower Eagle was the perfect lab for working on my mogul skiing. You have to be like a recovering addict and get through one at a time. I'm too slow getting my poles out--I have to be more consistent about to whip the other forward as soon as I'm doing using one. So that's what I did, looked at one mogul at a time, and made the turn on its peak while I aimed my pole at the next mogul and prepared for the next turn. And I made it!!!
Being an hour outside of New York, food was too expensive, of course. But considering I don't have to get up at 4AM to get there, Mountain Creek will fill in nicely when I want to ski, can't get a friend to, and share the driving to Hunter.
Resort or Ski Area: Mountain Creek, Vernon NJ
Conditions: Packed powder, some ice patches and thin cover
Trip Report:
I was last at Mountain Creek two years ago, and still have vivid memories of how crappy their rental skis were. I rented from the McAfee shop near Mountain Creek's South Peak area, and if they were any more forgiving, they could qualify for the priesthood. I'm sure used to doing face plants when I hear the sound of an ice patch, it really took me by surprise that I was still on my feet!
Warmed up the ski legs on a South Peak intermediate slopes--It's like riding a bike, isn't it--the legs remember what to do
Over on Bear Peak, there was a high school race going on, and most of the black diamond trails were closed due to thin cover . It's a designated "family area" where you're supposed to ride at "lower intermediate" speeds on weekends and holidays. Fine, but wouldn't it be more useful to have such an area were six of the eight trails WEREN'T black? Vernon Peak was the usual madhouse, with snowboarding demonstrations and twenty-minute waits to get on their eight-pasenger standing room only Cabriolet lift. That's where most of the black diamond trails are, but half of them are freestyle trails with rails and kickers and things. I'm not ready for that yet--give me a few more days.
One of the freestyle trails was Half-Moon--way to steep and bumpy for me. But the less steep Lower Eagle was the perfect lab for working on my mogul skiing. You have to be like a recovering addict and get through one at a time. I'm too slow getting my poles out--I have to be more consistent about to whip the other forward as soon as I'm doing using one. So that's what I did, looked at one mogul at a time, and made the turn on its peak while I aimed my pole at the next mogul and prepared for the next turn. And I made it!!!
Being an hour outside of New York, food was too expensive, of course. But considering I don't have to get up at 4AM to get there, Mountain Creek will fill in nicely when I want to ski, can't get a friend to, and share the driving to Hunter.
