loafer89
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Area Skied: Ragged Mountain, New Hampshire
Date skied: January 5th, 2007 from 9:00am - 1:30pm
Surface conditions: Packed powder, machine groomed, loose powder in the woods.
Weather: Sunshine and 10F at 9:00am, cloudy and 31F at 1:30pm
Today was my first time ever at Ragged and this was the most fun I have ever had on a Mountain with less than 1500' vertical. Honestly if it was not for the glades, the mountain would be fairly tame and alot like a Wachusett or Jiminy Peak.
Our first run was down Blueberry Patch/Raggedy Andy/Main Street/Village Green which was more or less flat and kind of boring. We did this again except that we hit Reggae Glades which had windblown blowback snowmaking on most of it from snowmaking for the Ragtime Terrain Park construction. The snow was fairly stiff and the trail had hardly any trees at all, certainly not enough to qualify as a glade in my eye.
Raggae Glades, this is a glade?:
Next up was Rags to, which was a great and challenging suprise:
The snow on the glade was fairly deep and there is about 3' of base in the woods where it has not been packed down. Cover is good on most of the trail, but there are some minor areas of ice/hardpack/thin cover and the glade snow is not as soft as Saddleback was last week, but great for Southern New Hampshire.
Riches was the run out for Pel's Pass glade and is fairly flat, but fun for practicing mogul and tree skiing. Warren and I did this trail combination five times, which really got the legs burning, especially with service from a HS six pack.
Riches:
We skied Sweepstakes which was quite icy down the middle, but the sides where left with tracked out powder which was a nice respite from hardpacked snow. Birches was much the same, but looked to have been groomed down the center, with a similar natural surface condition to Sweepstakes.
UpperCrewcut was a suprise and had some large moguls with soft powder snow, but it is a very short run, sweet, but short.
At the top of Upper Crewcut:
The HS six pack line was funny and changing through the morning from a five minute wait to having the chair to ourselves and the chair has a sidways load like the chair at Wildcat which takes a bit of getting used to, but except for getting bonked in the head with the saftey bar on my first ride up (helmet on) there where no really long lines or problems.
Warren on the far end of the chair:
We had alot of fun and hope to be back again when the Spear Mountain Triple chair is running again, which I heard from employees, could be in a week or two.
Date skied: January 5th, 2007 from 9:00am - 1:30pm
Surface conditions: Packed powder, machine groomed, loose powder in the woods.
Weather: Sunshine and 10F at 9:00am, cloudy and 31F at 1:30pm
Today was my first time ever at Ragged and this was the most fun I have ever had on a Mountain with less than 1500' vertical. Honestly if it was not for the glades, the mountain would be fairly tame and alot like a Wachusett or Jiminy Peak.
Our first run was down Blueberry Patch/Raggedy Andy/Main Street/Village Green which was more or less flat and kind of boring. We did this again except that we hit Reggae Glades which had windblown blowback snowmaking on most of it from snowmaking for the Ragtime Terrain Park construction. The snow was fairly stiff and the trail had hardly any trees at all, certainly not enough to qualify as a glade in my eye.
Raggae Glades, this is a glade?:
Next up was Rags to, which was a great and challenging suprise:
The snow on the glade was fairly deep and there is about 3' of base in the woods where it has not been packed down. Cover is good on most of the trail, but there are some minor areas of ice/hardpack/thin cover and the glade snow is not as soft as Saddleback was last week, but great for Southern New Hampshire.
Riches was the run out for Pel's Pass glade and is fairly flat, but fun for practicing mogul and tree skiing. Warren and I did this trail combination five times, which really got the legs burning, especially with service from a HS six pack.
Riches:
We skied Sweepstakes which was quite icy down the middle, but the sides where left with tracked out powder which was a nice respite from hardpacked snow. Birches was much the same, but looked to have been groomed down the center, with a similar natural surface condition to Sweepstakes.
UpperCrewcut was a suprise and had some large moguls with soft powder snow, but it is a very short run, sweet, but short.
At the top of Upper Crewcut:
The HS six pack line was funny and changing through the morning from a five minute wait to having the chair to ourselves and the chair has a sidways load like the chair at Wildcat which takes a bit of getting used to, but except for getting bonked in the head with the saftey bar on my first ride up (helmet on) there where no really long lines or problems.
Warren on the far end of the chair:
We had alot of fun and hope to be back again when the Spear Mountain Triple chair is running again, which I heard from employees, could be in a week or two.
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