Date(s) Skied: 1/13/08
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown
Conditions: Spring like
Trip Report: I was able to get in a couple of hours today after I got off of work. The conditions were interesting. Upper Nor'easter and Stinger alternated between big thick piles of sugary snow and slick hardpack. Lower Nor'easter was just as variable. The only thing consistent was the hard bumps. Some were covered by a light cover of the sugary stuff, some had a nice heavy coat of man-made from the night before and others had nothing over their slick surface. When you consider the horrible weather we had in the past week, they were in really good shape. Mountain Ops did a really good job of covering up any sketchy trenches, I only saw the top of one rock sticking through. The Ex bumps were in much tougher shape. They were all pretty spring like, right down to the huge brown spots poking throughout. Clearly the efforts to keep these covered was in vain as they just couldn't hold up to the relatively higher traffic. There was still something resembling a line or two if you were able to make over the brown though.
All in all the mountain did an excellent job working with the hand they were dealt last week. They'll be sitting pretty with mass quantities of snow they're supposed to get tonight. The bumps are going to rip...
I apologize in advance if much of this didn't make any sense. I started writing it a while ago but got distracted, no I'm half asleep as I'm finishing it. I'm somewhat wondering what the point to this report even was, it's going to be drastically different by the time anyone gets back to Sundown...
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown
Conditions: Spring like
Trip Report: I was able to get in a couple of hours today after I got off of work. The conditions were interesting. Upper Nor'easter and Stinger alternated between big thick piles of sugary snow and slick hardpack. Lower Nor'easter was just as variable. The only thing consistent was the hard bumps. Some were covered by a light cover of the sugary stuff, some had a nice heavy coat of man-made from the night before and others had nothing over their slick surface. When you consider the horrible weather we had in the past week, they were in really good shape. Mountain Ops did a really good job of covering up any sketchy trenches, I only saw the top of one rock sticking through. The Ex bumps were in much tougher shape. They were all pretty spring like, right down to the huge brown spots poking throughout. Clearly the efforts to keep these covered was in vain as they just couldn't hold up to the relatively higher traffic. There was still something resembling a line or two if you were able to make over the brown though.
All in all the mountain did an excellent job working with the hand they were dealt last week. They'll be sitting pretty with mass quantities of snow they're supposed to get tonight. The bumps are going to rip...
I apologize in advance if much of this didn't make any sense. I started writing it a while ago but got distracted, no I'm half asleep as I'm finishing it. I'm somewhat wondering what the point to this report even was, it's going to be drastically different by the time anyone gets back to Sundown...
