Stratton Mountain 2009-04-09

[WoodCore]

Date(s) Visited: April 9, 2009

Ski Area: Stratton Mountain, VT

Conditions: Beautiful Corn Snow!

Trip Report: What a great day of skiing!!! After attending to some nearby work related obligations in the early morning I managed to get out on the hill around 11am and skied until around 3:30pm and logged a healthy 26,000 feet of decent today.

The temperature had been down in the teens and low 20's overnight so the snow was just beginning to corn up nicely when I arrived. I basically followed the corn snow all day long based on exposure and elevation and seemed to find almost perfect spring conditions on each run right up to the end of the day.

I was impressed with the amount of snow left on the mountain. Most trails are still edge to edge and I was even able to make a ton of quality turns in the trees. Pending the weather, the conditions should be great for the last weekend of operations.

Here's some pictures.....

Betwixt

Snow Bowl

Tamarack

North American / Frank's Falline

Drifter

West Meadow

Bromley

Trees

Enjoy!

 

[RootDKJ]

Awesome!

 

[Greg]

Great pics. Cover still looks awesome!

 

[jaywbigred]

Wow. Psyched for the weekend!

 

[Beetlenut]

Most excellent!! Going tomorrow. Will be looking for the trees!!

 

[TheBEast]

Wow, woods coverage looks outstanding for southern VT!

 

[shpride]

I guess this puts an end to the will there be snow in the trees this weekend contraversy

 

[Beetlenut]

I guess this puts an end to the will there be snow in the trees this weekend contraversy

Oh yes, there was snow in the trees! Moon Dance and Diamond in the rough were skiing like mid winter! A few others which I found were too. They ran the gondola on Friday and that helped to get over to the Snow Bowl area, which had the best, least skied trails. Upper and lower Spruce was ungroomed slush bumps, what a way to end the season!


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