Date(s) Skied: 1/18/07
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown
Conditions: freash 'pow' to hard-pack in some spots
Trip Report: I was able to get out for a couple of hours after work last night. There was a dusting of snow at the mountain by the time I got there and it continued to snow on and off for the rest of the night. The snow didn't really amount to anything more than a thin covering, but it sure was nice to see! The new snow mixed in with the man-made quite nicely and made for some nice skiing in churned up pow like snow on the sides of the trails, while the middles of most trails were scraped off by the time I got out at 7:30pm. The exception there was, surprisingly, Exhibition which had good coverage all over with only a few small scratchy spots. The racing kids were practicing on Temtor so I stayed off of it until they were done. Stinger didn't look all that hot from the lift so I stuck to Canyon and Nor'Easter. Nor'Easter being the better of the two, I stuck to that for a bunch of runs. Once I saw them clearing the gates off of Temptor I headed over there for a run, but there was more loose stuff to play in on the side of Nor'Easter so I went back to laps over there with a couple more diversions to Temptor. At 9:51pm, on my second to last run, I decided to hit Stinger since most of the park rats had gone home. I wished I had tried it earlier, lots of fun to be had skiers right! Ended up making that my last run as well. I didn't make it over to the learning area, but everything was open over there and I assume the conditions were similar to the rest of the mountain. They had all 5 lifts running until they closed lift 2 at around 7:00pm when the school groups started heading home.
There was a TON of snow blown on Gunbarrel, I don't see them having any trouble opening it today after they spread out all the huge snow-making piles. It looked like they were working on getting Tom's Treat going too, which means they're close to 100% open
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown
Conditions: freash 'pow' to hard-pack in some spots
Trip Report: I was able to get out for a couple of hours after work last night. There was a dusting of snow at the mountain by the time I got there and it continued to snow on and off for the rest of the night. The snow didn't really amount to anything more than a thin covering, but it sure was nice to see! The new snow mixed in with the man-made quite nicely and made for some nice skiing in churned up pow like snow on the sides of the trails, while the middles of most trails were scraped off by the time I got out at 7:30pm. The exception there was, surprisingly, Exhibition which had good coverage all over with only a few small scratchy spots. The racing kids were practicing on Temtor so I stayed off of it until they were done. Stinger didn't look all that hot from the lift so I stuck to Canyon and Nor'Easter. Nor'Easter being the better of the two, I stuck to that for a bunch of runs. Once I saw them clearing the gates off of Temptor I headed over there for a run, but there was more loose stuff to play in on the side of Nor'Easter so I went back to laps over there with a couple more diversions to Temptor. At 9:51pm, on my second to last run, I decided to hit Stinger since most of the park rats had gone home. I wished I had tried it earlier, lots of fun to be had skiers right! Ended up making that my last run as well. I didn't make it over to the learning area, but everything was open over there and I assume the conditions were similar to the rest of the mountain. They had all 5 lifts running until they closed lift 2 at around 7:00pm when the school groups started heading home.
There was a TON of snow blown on Gunbarrel, I don't see them having any trouble opening it today after they spread out all the huge snow-making piles. It looked like they were working on getting Tom's Treat going too, which means they're close to 100% open
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