loafer89
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Area skied: Mount Ellen
Date skied: January 15th, 2007 from 9:45am - 2:00pm
Surface conditions: powder/packed powder.
We left from home at 5am and drove through a light to moderate rain until exit 5 on I-91 where the rain changed to a heavy sleet and continued this way until mixing with snow at White River Junction. Driving became hazardous and slow due to the snow/sleet and ice on the road and it took us four hours to get to Sugarbush.
The snow turned to a mix of sleet and snow just as we took our first run off the summit at 9:45 on Rim Run to Cruiser and down to the Green Mountain Express Quad.
Our next runs where off the summit and included beautiful packed powder on Panorama and Upper and Lower Looking Good. The snow was great but the weather was not as a heavy stinging sleet was now falling and continued to do so for the rest of the day, only occasionally mixing with snow.
Snowmaking was ongoing top to bottom on Exterminator which had huge mostly irregular shaped and patterned moguls with lots of ice in between and I fell more than once on two runs that I took.
Upper and Lower Elbow where the best trails of the day with top to bottom snowmaking and a creamy powder surface.
Crowds were none existent and more like a typical weekday than the end of MLK weekend. The weather by 2pm turned ugly with sleet and freezing rain and we called it a day after skiing 15,000' vertical.
All in all we had fun skiing in about 4-6" of powder, but the sleet and freezing rain cut down on the storm total and it is raining now as we drive back home even in Northern Vermont. Alot of the snow that fell along I-91 had started to melt and there was alot of freezing rain along I-91 from Putney down to Brattleboro.
Warren on Upper Looking Good:
My friend on Exterminator:
Father and son on Northstar:
Date skied: January 15th, 2007 from 9:45am - 2:00pm
Surface conditions: powder/packed powder.
We left from home at 5am and drove through a light to moderate rain until exit 5 on I-91 where the rain changed to a heavy sleet and continued this way until mixing with snow at White River Junction. Driving became hazardous and slow due to the snow/sleet and ice on the road and it took us four hours to get to Sugarbush.
The snow turned to a mix of sleet and snow just as we took our first run off the summit at 9:45 on Rim Run to Cruiser and down to the Green Mountain Express Quad.
Our next runs where off the summit and included beautiful packed powder on Panorama and Upper and Lower Looking Good. The snow was great but the weather was not as a heavy stinging sleet was now falling and continued to do so for the rest of the day, only occasionally mixing with snow.
Snowmaking was ongoing top to bottom on Exterminator which had huge mostly irregular shaped and patterned moguls with lots of ice in between and I fell more than once on two runs that I took.
Upper and Lower Elbow where the best trails of the day with top to bottom snowmaking and a creamy powder surface.
Crowds were none existent and more like a typical weekday than the end of MLK weekend. The weather by 2pm turned ugly with sleet and freezing rain and we called it a day after skiing 15,000' vertical.
All in all we had fun skiing in about 4-6" of powder, but the sleet and freezing rain cut down on the storm total and it is raining now as we drive back home even in Northern Vermont. Alot of the snow that fell along I-91 had started to melt and there was alot of freezing rain along I-91 from Putney down to Brattleboro.
Warren on Upper Looking Good:
My friend on Exterminator:
Father and son on Northstar:
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We had some great pow all morning long! 
