Pats Peak 1/1/2008

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Date Skied: 1/1/2008 (AM)

Resort or Ski Area: Pats Peak, NH

Conditions: PP, Powder, Crud, Bumps

Trip Report: Spent a few hours this morning at Pats Peak. Conditions were packed powder/powder with lots of crud and bumps on the advanced trails. Although the snow report stated that all trails (except Hurricane) were groomed, I doubt that they groomed all of them...of the advanced trails I skied, Cyclone may have been groomed but Tornado and Twister were full of bumps. Didn't ski FIS but I was told that it was also bumped up.

There were a decent number of people there, more than I expected...I was able to get a decent space in the parking lot but they had two lifts running to the summit. Max lift wait was a few minutes, though, and on a few runs I had the trail to myself.

After struggling in the bumps and crud, I realized that I was crouching way too much, so I tried to focus on standing up straight and bringing my hips forward. It seemed to help a decent amount...I didn't get knocked around as much and I didn't have any of the problems with quad burn that I've usually had in the past. I'm still quite a ways from hitting the bumps like the AZ Bump Club, though...

It started to snow at a decent rate about 11:00 or so...unfortunately, I had no plans to hang around the whole afternoon so I left just after the snow started. The ride home was uneventful but I saw the aftermath of several spinouts on the way.

 

[billski]

hmm, this has me thinking twice about pp for my littlest one this morning (Wed 1/2). think I'll look around.

 

[hiroto]

I was planning to go there 12/29 for the first time but it didn't work out.

While watching their condition throughout last week, I was very curious
about the fact that they had pretty much all their glades open while
places much further north, like Attitash had them closed, with lack of
snow and also anything ungroomed was pretty icy.

What kind of condition are the glades at Pat's Peek?

 

[billski]

I was planning to go there 12/29 for the first time but it didn't work out.

While watching their condition throughout last week, I was very curious
about the fact that they had pretty much all their glades open while
places much further north, like Attitash had them closed, with lack of
snow and also anything ungroomed was pretty icy.

What kind of condition are the glades at Pat's Peek?

they are in excellent shape as of 1/2/08. fully covered, lots of pow, no big bumps, you could make new tracks easily. Nobody could ask for better.