Angus
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Like to go at least once a year to judge how I've improved (or not). This mountain teaches you something new everytime. As earlier reported, the snow report was correct - green and blues were nice and steeper stuff was tough.
It was really cold. My son said at lunch that the weather station inside the lodge was saying a 8 degree wind chill. It was windy all day - a short lull early PM.
Was on lift a bit before 10 (skied to 4:15). The mountain was hard pack. On first or second run found ourselves at top of upper canyon and we skid our way down among the bumps. Our routine for the day was ski a couple runs off the sunnyside lift and then venture up the single.
There was a period from late morning to about 3:30 where things did soften up but the mountain has a lot of hard pack ice and my edges aren't sharp. Catamount Bowl and Canyon got manageable - maybe because we were figuring out how to ski the conditions.
Skied Paradise top to bottom - pretty much the descent directly down. It was not fun at all - again, steep with big bumps and fairly narrow in places but with the snow conditions, it was survival skiing.
Wood trails were nice - Glade, Gazelle Glades and a couple of others were nice.
Interestingly, my best run of the day was Lynx. My son went in to eat and I took a run and just bombed through it. We went back immediately and there were a bunch of people on it and just couldn't get it going again.
About 3:45 - everything on sunnyside just froze back up and we were done. we skied quacky's (bumps were nice) at 3:45 and had a nice run. My son skied it at 4:00 and said it had gone into the shade and wasn't very good anymore. I was skiing Slalom at the same time and had same experience.
They have a deep base and should push a late season if weather doesn't turn warm.
It was really cold. My son said at lunch that the weather station inside the lodge was saying a 8 degree wind chill. It was windy all day - a short lull early PM.
Was on lift a bit before 10 (skied to 4:15). The mountain was hard pack. On first or second run found ourselves at top of upper canyon and we skid our way down among the bumps. Our routine for the day was ski a couple runs off the sunnyside lift and then venture up the single.
There was a period from late morning to about 3:30 where things did soften up but the mountain has a lot of hard pack ice and my edges aren't sharp. Catamount Bowl and Canyon got manageable - maybe because we were figuring out how to ski the conditions.
Skied Paradise top to bottom - pretty much the descent directly down. It was not fun at all - again, steep with big bumps and fairly narrow in places but with the snow conditions, it was survival skiing.
Wood trails were nice - Glade, Gazelle Glades and a couple of others were nice.
Interestingly, my best run of the day was Lynx. My son went in to eat and I took a run and just bombed through it. We went back immediately and there were a bunch of people on it and just couldn't get it going again.
About 3:45 - everything on sunnyside just froze back up and we were done. we skied quacky's (bumps were nice) at 3:45 and had a nice run. My son skied it at 4:00 and said it had gone into the shade and wasn't very good anymore. I was skiing Slalom at the same time and had same experience.
They have a deep base and should push a late season if weather doesn't turn warm.
