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Pico Sunday 3/18/07

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Date(s) Skied:3/18/2007

Resort or Ski Area: Pico

Conditions: Powder

Weather: Snow all day long

Trip Report: Skied Killington on 3/17 and had 18” of powder covered by an icy crust. For Sunday, I expected Pico to have a chance to groom the trails, and figured a few inches of snow would fall to give us a pleasant ski day. On Sunday morning I put on RSN to get the latest Killington update, they stated that 2-4” fell overnight. Hmm…. Figured they were right on track for my expectations. We get to the mountain by about 8 and first thing we see is snow and people sliding down in nice boot deep powder, sure looked like more than 2-4”. Well it is snowing so figured they must have gotten a couple more inches. Overall, Killington reports that they received 15” on top of the previous days 18”, this was sweet. Unlike Saturday’s snowfall, this was nice fluffy almost Utah type of powder. This I did not expect and what a pleasant surprise it was! We started out by heading up the Summit Quad and headed over to Upper KA. Sweet stuff, nothing but fresh powder all the way down. When we hit Middle KA, I planned on cutting across to Lower Pike because it looked so sweet going up. Couldn’t do it, KA was nothing but big mounds of fresh powder. Went back up the Summit Quad and this time took Upper Pike to Lower Pike, once again, sweet powder all the way down. We actually had a Beginner with us and Pike was just a bit too tough for her, had her do four blacks that day and she did pretty good, guess falling in soft powder helps :) After that we went back up and did Upper KA cut across to Birch Glades. The Glades as expected were sweet; the only issue was that they did have some hard bumps underneath the soft stuff in some areas, but nothing too bad.

After this I talked the Beginner into trying the Outpost lift, I had never taken this before. All I knew is that there were some nice black coming off of it and if they looked too difficult, I told the Beginner that we can always take the green down to the blue :evil: We started with Bronco, nicely bumped up trail. Went back up and tried Sidewinder, this was a mistake for the Beginner, it was just too much. Up at the top the trail was a bit steep with ice and rocks and branches sticking through. Beginner was a bit scared and had to be coaxed down. Once she got off the top it wasn’t too bad. I coached her all the way down with shouts of “turn, turn, fall” :lol: and we made it the rest of the way. Next I tried to talk Beginner into doing Wrangler by telling her that since this would be her last run, double diamond would be like doing two diamonds at once :lol: , didn’t work. So it was one more run down Bronco and that was our day. Conditions were great all day and just got better as the day went on. Haven’t seen anything this good since Utah, oh wait, that was only two weeks ago. Alright, other that that, haven’t seen anything this good since Burke, oh, that was only a month ago. Well you get the idea, I’ll take a crappy season such as this one any time. May not be too clear since there was so much snow, but here’s some pics:

Vee still going strong on her new Phat Luvs:

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Jeff enjoying Birch Glades:

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Beginner (Milagross) loving the black:

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I think I know who "beginner" is. She enjoyed some of the stuff at Burke IIRC :wink:

No secret, beginner is Milagros, Jeff's girlfriend, yes she was at Burke She's been progessing real nice. Sunday was her first day doing blacks. I first took her down Upper KA, she didn't realize it was a black, about 8/10s of the way down, we stopped and had the following conversation:

me: guess what?
Milie: what?
Me: congratulations on doing your first black diamond
Milie: No
Me: yes
Milie - just flipped and started screaming and yelling :)

And no, I'm not a mean monster. I saw she was doing real good and would have flipped if she saw it was a diamond before hand. She did real good on that one, did three more black runs and did fairly good on those. Today, she is very proud of herself.
 
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here are some more pics taken that same day by MtnMan and Spanky over on KZone. The first link is the rest of MtnMans pics in webshots. The little guy in the green jacket and orange helmet is Iceman, my son.

(edited - no hotlinking from KZone. I posted a link to the thread below)
 
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more:

edited - no hotlinking from KZone, link posted below...

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Grom Iceman showing off:
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