Sheik Yerbouti
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Date Skied: Jan 17th 2007 9:30a - 1:30p
Resort or Ski Area: Stratton Mountain
Conditions: Bluebird skies and DAMN COLD!
Packed powder, frozen granular, some loose powder here and there, patches of ice, mostly very nice.
Trip Report: Couldn't decide where I was going to go today, I had that Stratton Snowday pass burning a hole in my pocket, and I saw they increased the skiable acres, so I decided to give it a shot. Projected high at the peak was -3 with a windchill of around -30, but it was a dry cold....
This was my first trip to Stratton, and I was really impressed with the level of customer care, and the conditions of the runs. Took a chair up American Express and got in a nice run down overpass and onto Yodler. Took the gondi up from there several times and took some nice long runs down the greens on the right side, Upper West Meadow down to Lower wanderer, I varied over to East Meadow down to Old Log Road, then I decided to get bold, and head over to Interstate and down Yodler again.
Overall, the conditions were pretty nice, hard packed with places of loose powder, they were blowing like mad on a few open runs (experienced a mini white-out on Interstate) The greens were getting icy later in the day at the top, but still nice towards mid and lower. The blues seemed to be good throughout the day.
I don't have the gumption or or lack of brain cells to try a black run, but they looked pretty polished and well covered.
I have to say that this is probably the coldest day I have ever skied. A 30 below wind chill magnifies itself pretty well when your zipping down the hill.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, but overall, the mountain was in pretty damn fine shape (the open runs), there was absolutely no crowd to speak of (rode the gondi several times solo), and I learned to pack a lunch when you go to Stratton, a tad pricey ;-)
Below are a couple pics, my camera didn't like the cold and decided it's battery was dead (even though I charged it all night prior :roll So I didn't get as many pics as I wanted.
Resort or Ski Area: Stratton Mountain
Conditions: Bluebird skies and DAMN COLD!
Packed powder, frozen granular, some loose powder here and there, patches of ice, mostly very nice.Trip Report: Couldn't decide where I was going to go today, I had that Stratton Snowday pass burning a hole in my pocket, and I saw they increased the skiable acres, so I decided to give it a shot. Projected high at the peak was -3 with a windchill of around -30, but it was a dry cold....
This was my first trip to Stratton, and I was really impressed with the level of customer care, and the conditions of the runs. Took a chair up American Express and got in a nice run down overpass and onto Yodler. Took the gondi up from there several times and took some nice long runs down the greens on the right side, Upper West Meadow down to Lower wanderer, I varied over to East Meadow down to Old Log Road, then I decided to get bold, and head over to Interstate and down Yodler again.
Overall, the conditions were pretty nice, hard packed with places of loose powder, they were blowing like mad on a few open runs (experienced a mini white-out on Interstate
) The greens were getting icy later in the day at the top, but still nice towards mid and lower. The blues seemed to be good throughout the day.I don't have the gumption or or lack of brain cells to try a black run, but they looked pretty polished and well covered.
I have to say that this is probably the coldest day I have ever skied. A 30 below wind chill magnifies itself pretty well when your zipping down the hill.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, but overall, the mountain was in pretty damn fine shape (the open runs), there was absolutely no crowd to speak of (rode the gondi several times solo), and I learned to pack a lunch when you go to Stratton, a tad pricey ;-)
Below are a couple pics, my camera didn't like the cold and decided it's battery was dead (even though I charged it all night prior :roll
So I didn't get as many pics as I wanted.
