hiroto
Member
Date(s) Skied: 2/17/2008
Resort or Ski Area: Pat's Peak
Conditions: PP, some ice
Trip Report:
2nd weekends in a row to Pat's Peak, this time with whole family.
I was expecting some icy condition, and it was confirmed immediately when I couldn't stick my poles into snow when I was putting my skis on in front of the base lodge. We took lower chair for a few times to warm up. There were good man made snow coverage on hard pack.
Since the condition looked ok, took peak double to the top. Came down Breeze, then Duster. Firm but in good condition. Headed to NASTAR course after the lunch. Paid for a couple runs for all of us. Kids wanted to continue so added couple more. Then my son wanted to check out Hurricane but daughter wanted to go for one more race run so we parted.
Hurricane was in amazing shape, much better than last weekend. It was closed last Friday after Thursday rain so I expected to be in pretty bad shape. But they put amazing amount of man made snow over it, very evenly to pretty much preserve the bumps as they existed the week before, but much much softer without any ice. I read following statement in their AZ challenge and they are right.
Meanwhile, my daughter finished her race runs. She started from 35 seconds, but shaved off 1 second or more for each run and finished with the fastest run at 29 seconds, getting Silver medal.
Went back to the top with my daughter to come down on East Wind. At this point, it started to show some icy spots. They are small and far apart enough so I can easily avoid them, but my daughter cannot and had a few ice induced wipe out. I pointed it out to her where the ice is how they looks like but she says she can't see the difference. Oh well. It was better to stay on green at that point. Shortly after she was done for the day so went up for quick run through FIS, and Twister with my son. There were some icy spots but they were easily avoidable and condition was still good.
At the end of the day, kids went for tubing for an hour, first time for my daughter. They had a blast.
It was definitely more crowded than the week before. Peak double was often at 5 minutes wait, and once we waited as much as 10 minutes. But considering it is vacation week, it was not bad at all.
Took me a long time to discover this mountain, but now we are in love with it. After skiing Ragged and Sunapee, we are planing to come back here on Wednesday.
Resort or Ski Area: Pat's Peak
Conditions: PP, some ice
Trip Report:
2nd weekends in a row to Pat's Peak, this time with whole family.
I was expecting some icy condition, and it was confirmed immediately when I couldn't stick my poles into snow when I was putting my skis on in front of the base lodge. We took lower chair for a few times to warm up. There were good man made snow coverage on hard pack.
Since the condition looked ok, took peak double to the top. Came down Breeze, then Duster. Firm but in good condition. Headed to NASTAR course after the lunch. Paid for a couple runs for all of us. Kids wanted to continue so added couple more. Then my son wanted to check out Hurricane but daughter wanted to go for one more race run so we parted.
Hurricane was in amazing shape, much better than last weekend. It was closed last Friday after Thursday rain so I expected to be in pretty bad shape. But they put amazing amount of man made snow over it, very evenly to pretty much preserve the bumps as they existed the week before, but much much softer without any ice. I read following statement in their AZ challenge and they are right.
Meanwhile, my daughter finished her race runs. She started from 35 seconds, but shaved off 1 second or more for each run and finished with the fastest run at 29 seconds, getting Silver medal.
Went back to the top with my daughter to come down on East Wind. At this point, it started to show some icy spots. They are small and far apart enough so I can easily avoid them, but my daughter cannot and had a few ice induced wipe out. I pointed it out to her where the ice is how they looks like but she says she can't see the difference. Oh well. It was better to stay on green at that point. Shortly after she was done for the day so went up for quick run through FIS, and Twister with my son. There were some icy spots but they were easily avoidable and condition was still good.
At the end of the day, kids went for tubing for an hour, first time for my daughter. They had a blast.
It was definitely more crowded than the week before. Peak double was often at 5 minutes wait, and once we waited as much as 10 minutes. But considering it is vacation week, it was not bad at all.
Took me a long time to discover this mountain, but now we are in love with it. After skiing Ragged and Sunapee, we are planing to come back here on Wednesday.
