loafer89
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Area skied: Ski Saddleback, Maine
Date skied: April 17th from 9:30am - 4:00pm
Surface conditions: machine groomed, loose granular, corn, wetpacked
Weather: sunny and very warm, 44F at 9:30am, 65F at 4:00pm
We started out our day leaving a sunny and warm Stratton and scoring a moose sighting along the way to Saddleback.
Our first run of the day was down Green Weaver to the Kennebago T-bar which we took up and skied Tightline which had nice groomed corn snow with a firm and slightly icy headwall. We followed this with a run down a silky smooth and groomed Supervisor and we repeated this once more.
Deep snow at the summit:
Tightline:
Tightline got two return visits with the snow getting softer later in the afternoon. We did Wardens Worry which had not been groomed and had no moguls. It had a mix of corn and manky wet packed snow making for difficult turns.
Wardens Worry:
We skied Governor and it was not very fun with rutted melting snow that was hard to turn in, but would probably have been better with more skier traffic to pack the snow down.
We did the long schlepp to Muleskinner twice and the first run was nice corn, but the second run had very wet sticky snow that was harder to turn in, but still fun.
Me cooking in the sun on Muleskinner:
By noon the temperature was reading 60F at the Rangeley Chair bottom terminal thermometer and the snow near the base was filled with melt water. We did Grey Ghost to Golden Smelt three times and the trail was full of moguls that where firm, but just the right softness and the trail of the day.
We skied Upper Jane Craig and Upper Professor which both had moguls and soft corn snow with very few thin areas or brush poking through even on the steepest sections. Both runs ended with runs up the Kennebago T-bar and my son rode the lift by himself on four of out ten rides up for the first time
Warren riding solo on the Kennebago T-bar:
Peachy's Peril had plenty of cover, but only had the melting remains on last winters moguls:
The rides up the T-bar took us down Hudson Highway which was groomed flat with no skiable snowbanks on the trail edges and Silver Doctor which had untouched groomed snow on the trail edges.
View from the summit of the frozen north country:
Date skied: April 17th from 9:30am - 4:00pm
Surface conditions: machine groomed, loose granular, corn, wetpacked
Weather: sunny and very warm, 44F at 9:30am, 65F at 4:00pm
We started out our day leaving a sunny and warm Stratton and scoring a moose sighting along the way to Saddleback.
Our first run of the day was down Green Weaver to the Kennebago T-bar which we took up and skied Tightline which had nice groomed corn snow with a firm and slightly icy headwall. We followed this with a run down a silky smooth and groomed Supervisor and we repeated this once more.
Deep snow at the summit:
Tightline:
Tightline got two return visits with the snow getting softer later in the afternoon. We did Wardens Worry which had not been groomed and had no moguls. It had a mix of corn and manky wet packed snow making for difficult turns.
Wardens Worry:
We skied Governor and it was not very fun with rutted melting snow that was hard to turn in, but would probably have been better with more skier traffic to pack the snow down.
We did the long schlepp to Muleskinner twice and the first run was nice corn, but the second run had very wet sticky snow that was harder to turn in, but still fun.
Me cooking in the sun on Muleskinner:
By noon the temperature was reading 60F at the Rangeley Chair bottom terminal thermometer and the snow near the base was filled with melt water. We did Grey Ghost to Golden Smelt three times and the trail was full of moguls that where firm, but just the right softness and the trail of the day.
We skied Upper Jane Craig and Upper Professor which both had moguls and soft corn snow with very few thin areas or brush poking through even on the steepest sections. Both runs ended with runs up the Kennebago T-bar and my son rode the lift by himself on four of out ten rides up for the first time
Warren riding solo on the Kennebago T-bar:
Peachy's Peril had plenty of cover, but only had the melting remains on last winters moguls:
The rides up the T-bar took us down Hudson Highway which was groomed flat with no skiable snowbanks on the trail edges and Silver Doctor which had untouched groomed snow on the trail edges.
View from the summit of the frozen north country:
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