loafer89
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Area skied: Ski Sundown, C.T
Date skied: March 18th, 2007 from 12:45pm- 3:30pm
Surface conditions: packed powder
Weather: sunny and very windy at times, 36F
Today was the best day of the season thus far for for skiing at Sundown, as except for the high gusty winds, the snow was as perfect as it can be at Sundown with hardly any ice on the trails.
Warren and I started out with some illicit glade skiing off of Gunbarrel and we soon regreted skiing past the ski patrol ribbon (shame on me) as the snow in the woods had a nasty coating of freezing rain that was about 1/2 - 3/4" thick. Warren made it along just fine, but I kept breaking through the crust which made for miserable turns, and we where happy to traverse back to Gunbarrel and return to skiable snow.
Nor'Easter was decent enough with alot more moguls on it than last week and some ice in between the moguls, but that is nearly always the case. Warren and I skied it four times and then moved on to the rest of the mountain.
Gunbarrel was the pick of the day with huge amounts of soft snow nearly everywhere on the trail. The only bad part was at the very top where the high winds whipped snow into your face at times, but this also shifted alot of loose powder snow to skiers right and sticking to the trail edges was a real treat. I did five laps on the trail, sticking to skiers right with each run.
We did one run each on Stinger and Temptor and had fun on each trail, with the soft snow abounding today it was hard to pick a trail with bad snow.
Gunbarrel Glade:
There is about 8-10" of snowcover in the glade, but it is frozen solid
Gunbarrel with lots of packed powder:
Date skied: March 18th, 2007 from 12:45pm- 3:30pm
Surface conditions: packed powder
Weather: sunny and very windy at times, 36F
Today was the best day of the season thus far for for skiing at Sundown, as except for the high gusty winds, the snow was as perfect as it can be at Sundown with hardly any ice on the trails.
Warren and I started out with some illicit glade skiing off of Gunbarrel and we soon regreted skiing past the ski patrol ribbon (shame on me) as the snow in the woods had a nasty coating of freezing rain that was about 1/2 - 3/4" thick. Warren made it along just fine, but I kept breaking through the crust which made for miserable turns, and we where happy to traverse back to Gunbarrel and return to skiable snow.
Nor'Easter was decent enough with alot more moguls on it than last week and some ice in between the moguls, but that is nearly always the case. Warren and I skied it four times and then moved on to the rest of the mountain.
Gunbarrel was the pick of the day with huge amounts of soft snow nearly everywhere on the trail. The only bad part was at the very top where the high winds whipped snow into your face at times, but this also shifted alot of loose powder snow to skiers right and sticking to the trail edges was a real treat. I did five laps on the trail, sticking to skiers right with each run.
We did one run each on Stinger and Temptor and had fun on each trail, with the soft snow abounding today it was hard to pick a trail with bad snow.
Gunbarrel Glade:
There is about 8-10" of snowcover in the glade, but it is frozen solid
Gunbarrel with lots of packed powder:
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