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I'm falling behind on the reports, but here's the one for last Friday:
So its Friday and as usual the skivt-l contingent all ends up parking within a 30 foot radius in middle Midway. The day was bluebird. The same old views never get old to me.
http://tinyurl.com/2c4f4z
A certain bowl looked real appetizing.
http://tinyurl.com/yw5845
But first, we took a run down the Clipper to see what the snow surface would be like, and found quite enjoyable woods conditions. As the sun continued to warm the snow and air, the conditions turned more spring-like and this was the first corn I've skied this season. Next run we headed down the main Angel Food lines which was much better than expected as it was softening quickly.
Then we wanted to go hit the Rock Garden...so the marching band took off up the climbing gully in rapidly warming temperatures.
http://tinyurl.com/29dhgu
Scotty D getting situated with the Champlain Valley over his shoulder.
http://tinyurl.com/2ydauv
Looking south along the Green Mountain spine with Camels Hump and Mt. Ellen off in the distance.
http://tinyurl.com/yogema
Enough rime and ice made it possible to ski down the ridgeline in some capacity. Several times I almost pitched myself off into Underhill. It was pretty entertaining stuff at times.
http://tinyurl.com/yqhub2
We then ran into someone coming up behind the Cliff House solo, and it was lister Bill. He was going to the Garden as well. Cool.
The snow was certainly a little variable in spots but some good turns were had. While the RG can be a short run, the appeal for me is that when you're up there it really doesn't feel like Vermont anymore.
Dave picking a line.
http://tinyurl.com/ysnvem
Jimmy dropping down the skiers left wall.
http://tinyurl.com/2afsgg
Spring/variable conditions existed in there with some turns being perfectly stable spring-corn and others being punchy and unpredictable. Its always fun though.
We cruised down and decided to head over to Spruce to show Scotty the Butt-crack run. The snow in the hardwood glades dropping down to the notch was the nicest we found all day. There was an inch of pure corn on top of a supportable base....it skied so smooth as each turn was cleaving off the top layer of spring corn and leaving you with a harder surface underneath to get an edge into. Excellent!
Down RT 108 and back to the gondola, we get to the top only to see about 30 people standing there gaping up at the cliffs behind the Cliff House. Someone is making their way down the vertical rock wall that has a few white patches on it. We immediately recognize that its Sam and Allen. That was pretty awesome to watch...those kids have sllab. This is where we also ran into Alex Friend. All the sudden there's a posse of 8 now. After a bench run, Allen and Sam wanted to get one more Rock Garden run in but I was beat. They headed back up to the summit ridge....Bill had something off the Kitchen Wall he wanted to do, so he went that way...and the rest of us did a cool down run in Chapel Woods off the Quad.
Another phine Friday.
-Scott
So its Friday and as usual the skivt-l contingent all ends up parking within a 30 foot radius in middle Midway. The day was bluebird. The same old views never get old to me.
http://tinyurl.com/2c4f4z
A certain bowl looked real appetizing.
http://tinyurl.com/yw5845
But first, we took a run down the Clipper to see what the snow surface would be like, and found quite enjoyable woods conditions. As the sun continued to warm the snow and air, the conditions turned more spring-like and this was the first corn I've skied this season. Next run we headed down the main Angel Food lines which was much better than expected as it was softening quickly.
Then we wanted to go hit the Rock Garden...so the marching band took off up the climbing gully in rapidly warming temperatures.
http://tinyurl.com/29dhgu
Scotty D getting situated with the Champlain Valley over his shoulder.
http://tinyurl.com/2ydauv
Looking south along the Green Mountain spine with Camels Hump and Mt. Ellen off in the distance.
http://tinyurl.com/yogema
Enough rime and ice made it possible to ski down the ridgeline in some capacity. Several times I almost pitched myself off into Underhill. It was pretty entertaining stuff at times.
http://tinyurl.com/yqhub2
We then ran into someone coming up behind the Cliff House solo, and it was lister Bill. He was going to the Garden as well. Cool.
The snow was certainly a little variable in spots but some good turns were had. While the RG can be a short run, the appeal for me is that when you're up there it really doesn't feel like Vermont anymore.
Dave picking a line.
http://tinyurl.com/ysnvem
Jimmy dropping down the skiers left wall.
http://tinyurl.com/2afsgg
Spring/variable conditions existed in there with some turns being perfectly stable spring-corn and others being punchy and unpredictable. Its always fun though.
We cruised down and decided to head over to Spruce to show Scotty the Butt-crack run. The snow in the hardwood glades dropping down to the notch was the nicest we found all day. There was an inch of pure corn on top of a supportable base....it skied so smooth as each turn was cleaving off the top layer of spring corn and leaving you with a harder surface underneath to get an edge into. Excellent!
Down RT 108 and back to the gondola, we get to the top only to see about 30 people standing there gaping up at the cliffs behind the Cliff House. Someone is making their way down the vertical rock wall that has a few white patches on it. We immediately recognize that its Sam and Allen. That was pretty awesome to watch...those kids have sllab. This is where we also ran into Alex Friend. All the sudden there's a posse of 8 now. After a bench run, Allen and Sam wanted to get one more Rock Garden run in but I was beat. They headed back up to the summit ridge....Bill had something off the Kitchen Wall he wanted to do, so he went that way...and the rest of us did a cool down run in Chapel Woods off the Quad.
Another phine Friday.
-Scott
