Sugarbush 2/28/12

[Cornhead]

Date(s) Skied: 2/28/12

Resort or Ski Area: Sugarbush

Conditions: Powder

Trip Report:

What a difference a month makes. I was at Sugarbush a month ago, while it wasn't terrible, it was nothing like the mountain I skied today. I went to dinner at the Hyde Away Inn at nine o'clock last night. It started raining. By the time I got back to the Golden Lion, it had turned to wet snow. In an act of wishful thinking, I turned the wipers up on my car. In the morning there was about an inch on my car. That inch translated to four on top of Lincoln Peak. Everything skied great, that four inches did wonders to freshen things up. Ha funny, last week four inches was a "dump". Anyway, I skied eveything but Liftline, and Rumble off the Castlerock chair. Found some nice low angle glades in Eden. As the day wore on, I realized what, besides snow, had been missing this season...variety. Ski some nice narrow bumps, Middle Earth, Castlerock, head into the woods, bomb some groomers. It wad great. How many frozen granular groomers can you ski before you go batty? I was beginning to think I was going to find out.

I'll be skiing Mt Ellen tomorrow. They're calling for six inches Wednesday night, could be more like a foot up high, fingers crossed. Here's a few pics.

Eden

Top of Middle Earth

Middle Earth

Organgrinder, I think.

 

[2sons]

Nice pics. Way to go Cornhead. Enjoy Mt. Ellen.

 

[WWF-VT]

Glad to see that you are at Sugarbush with prime snow conditions - have fun!

 

[Warp Daddy]

Nicely Done CH -- looks like you found the goods !

 

[bigbog]

Nice CH...and thanks for typing trail name. Getting caught up on ski skills = wanna get over there sometime this next month.

 

[Cornhead]

Thanks, I'm now camped out at The Golden Lion waiting to see what happens with this new storm. I plan on ending my trip with two days at MRG. I felt ill missing out on
Sunday, but the skiing has been phenomenal at both mts. this week. I need powder baskets for my poles, it's deep in the trees. I try to push off and my pole just keeps going, and going.

I was forced to take vacation this week. I have to use up my time before my anniversary of hire, March 18th. We've been busy lately, my boss approached me earlier last week. I knew what she wanted. She wanted me to postpone my vacation. I told her I had made plans but, to placate her, I told her I could probably cut it short. I can't wait to call her. "Yeah, the roads are terrible, I don't think it'd be prudent for me to travel three hundred miles, see you Monday." Hey, I worked thirteen hours overtime the week before my vacation. I'm sure it'll be the furthest thing from my mind while skiing pow at MRG.

I will have skied one day at Platty, unless I hit them on the way home, still have vouchers to use up, two days at Sugarbush, Three days at MRG. Could have been one day at Whiteface too, except for wind holds. So grateful for being forced into choosing this week.

 

[jaja111]

........I have to use up my time before my anniversary of hire, March 18th. We've been busy lately, my boss approached me earlier last week. I knew what she wanted. She wanted me to postpone my vacation..........

Use it or lose it? In America today in 2012, I have two words for this; "fuck her"

 

[billski]

Use it or lose it?

welcome to the real world.

 

[jaja111]

welcome to the real world.

Oh, I am in the real world, but just use it or lose it the last day of the year. This includes sick days. So the week after Xmas I came down with a case of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva for three days. No one questioned the fact that its occurrence is 1 in 2,000,000. And yes, I skied two of those days, and they were no where near as good as the OP's trip.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Organgrinder, I think.

yup, that's Organgrinder, formally the liftline for the old gondola.

 

[Cornhead]

Use it or lose it? In America today in 2012, I have two words for this; "fuck her"

Ha, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little, the mental image makes me shudder.

I do believe in Karma, we've been flooded twice in the last five years. The first was 2006, I called in and told a manager I needed a day off to start the clean up. He asked if I had a vacation day to use, I said yes. He said he'd put me in for one. When I returned to work, I said,"You guys are going to pay me for the Holiday, right?' Her response was, "Oh no, we have a policy, you have to work the day before and the day after the Holiday to receive Holiday pay." I'd worked there eight years at the time. Turns out the manager I spoke to on the phone never put me in for a va ca day. I was so dumbfounded, I walked out the door, and left for a couple hours, I was pissed. They did end up paying me. Two weeks later, Madame President was flooded by a flash flood. How do you like it bitch? Would you feel better if your employer kicked you in the balls? Is there a female equivalent? Twist your nipples?

The pizza place where I buy lunch didn't charge me for a pie I ordered when I told them we were flooded. Pretty sad when the place that you buy your lunch treats you with more respect than your employer. I was shocked by her callousness and lack of compassion, she knew I'd been flooded. Wow, thanks, I feel so much better about enjoying some pow now. Thanks for reminding me.