loafer89
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Area Skied: Saddleback
Date Skied: April 15th, 2006 from 11:00am - 2:30pm
Surface conditions: Frozen granular, spring conditions, bare spots, icy patches
My son and I left Sugarloaf in a thick fog with the temperature in the upper 30's, my son wanted to ski at Saddleback and the weather looked bad, but it was dry. As we pulled into the Saddleback parking lot, as if on que, it started to rain:evil: :???: Not wanting to ski in a cold rain, we had a leisurely breakfast and waited for the rain to stop around 11:00am.
As we where on our way up the Rangeley Chair a heavy rain shower (mixed with sleet) hit us and we where sopping wet when we skied down a frozen and digusting Grey Ghost. As we boarded the chair again, of course the sun came out:roll: . Skiing from that point on improved somewhat with great groomed snow on Upper and Lower Green Weaver, which was the best trail of the day. I made the mistake of taking a run on the Kennebago T-bar which was an adventure to use in itself with a melted out track which featured roots, rocks, sheet ice and sopping wet snow.
I skied down Wardens Worry in a pea soup fog and hit the only patch of soft snow on the whole trail, sending me into a 10 point face plant when my body kept going but my ski's did not follow:-o The trail has very impressive base depths of at least 6-8' in many spots, and large whales in the middle of the run. The snow surface was disgusting though, with an uneven snow surface that rattled my teeth.
I skied Golden Smelt which has a nice bowl type feel to it, sort of like skiing a long narrow half pipe. The run had many thin and bare spots, but was skiable today at least.
Happy to be back on groomed snow, My son and I skied Red Devil and Silver Doctor, both trails had a very thin beggining, but nice corn snow until the end. As we ended the day at 2:30pm it started to rain again, and the snow cover had taken alot of abuse from the rain in the morning, so we called it quits.
The completed base lodge is beautiful, and a big step up from the old one of years past. I think that construction has started on the hotel, as a large building is being framed near the base of the South Branch Quad????
Date Skied: April 15th, 2006 from 11:00am - 2:30pm
Surface conditions: Frozen granular, spring conditions, bare spots, icy patches
My son and I left Sugarloaf in a thick fog with the temperature in the upper 30's, my son wanted to ski at Saddleback and the weather looked bad, but it was dry. As we pulled into the Saddleback parking lot, as if on que, it started to rain:evil: :???: Not wanting to ski in a cold rain, we had a leisurely breakfast and waited for the rain to stop around 11:00am.
As we where on our way up the Rangeley Chair a heavy rain shower (mixed with sleet) hit us and we where sopping wet when we skied down a frozen and digusting Grey Ghost. As we boarded the chair again, of course the sun came out:roll: . Skiing from that point on improved somewhat with great groomed snow on Upper and Lower Green Weaver, which was the best trail of the day. I made the mistake of taking a run on the Kennebago T-bar which was an adventure to use in itself with a melted out track which featured roots, rocks, sheet ice and sopping wet snow.
I skied down Wardens Worry in a pea soup fog and hit the only patch of soft snow on the whole trail, sending me into a 10 point face plant when my body kept going but my ski's did not follow:-o The trail has very impressive base depths of at least 6-8' in many spots, and large whales in the middle of the run. The snow surface was disgusting though, with an uneven snow surface that rattled my teeth.
I skied Golden Smelt which has a nice bowl type feel to it, sort of like skiing a long narrow half pipe. The run had many thin and bare spots, but was skiable today at least.
Happy to be back on groomed snow, My son and I skied Red Devil and Silver Doctor, both trails had a very thin beggining, but nice corn snow until the end. As we ended the day at 2:30pm it started to rain again, and the snow cover had taken alot of abuse from the rain in the morning, so we called it quits.
The completed base lodge is beautiful, and a big step up from the old one of years past. I think that construction has started on the hotel, as a large building is being framed near the base of the South Branch Quad????
