loafer89
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Area skied: Sugarloaf/USA
Date Skied: April 14th, 2006 from 8:25am - 3:30pm
Surface Conditions: Spring Snow, Frozen Granular (early) icy patches, bare spots.
My son and I started the day on the Superquad by taking a run down a frozen and uncarvable upper Tote Road. The freezing level must have been at about 2500', because the snow below that level was silky smooth. Our next run was down Kings Landing which like Tote Road had been groomed the night before. Kings Landing was somewhat better and a mix of corn snow and ice cookies.
Warren skied down Tote Road again and I skied Bouble Bitter which was death defying with numerous bare spots and exposed ice, why that trail was open, I still do not understand:uzi: . I meet up with my son and we skied a somewhat frozen Sluice which had nice corn snow down the middle. We took Spillway up to check on the Timberline Quad which was still not open at 10:00am, so we skied down Lower Timberline which had nice groomed snow, to Scoot which was nice as well. Lower Tote Road at this point was already getting very slushy.
We made our was back up the Superquad to the Timberline Quad which was now open and we skied a groomed Timberline which had nice corn snow, but was reduced to 50% width in spots due to snowmelt. Tote Road extension was firm but carvable and we skied down it's length back to our hotel for lunch.
Sugarloaf after 1pm was a transformed mountain with soft corn snow everywhere. Warren and I skied down a virtually unskied Competition Hill which had beautiful corn snow that was not to heavy. We Skied Boomauger as well which had fantastic snow with edge to edge cover and very deep base depths.
Warren ended his day after that and I proceeded to ski terrain off of the Spillway Lift. White Nitro had great spring snow with a firm base underneath. Gondi Line was much the same with soft "speed bump" moguls that exploded when you skied into them, the trail was thin below the gondi mid-station but still fun. Winter's Way from Spillway X-Cut had a hairy approach with several "make or break" turns necessary to avoid large rocks/boulders. The trail was very thin and gave new meaning to the term "thin cover" but was a challenge to ski to the junction with Gondi Line.
I saved my favorite trail on the mountain, Bubblecuffer for the last run. The upper part had very good cover with large moguls in many spots and very little in the way of thin cover, until just past the Gondi mid-station where the trail had sparse snowcover.
By 3:30pm, when I ended my day, the temperature was easily near 70F with bluebird skies. It was easily the warmest day that I ever enjoyed at Sugarloaf, and one of my top five of all time :razz: . My only complaint was that more of the mountain could easily have been opened. King Pine Bowl had plenty of snowcover as did the Whiffletree area and looked very inviting, but where roped off:evil: :roll:
Date Skied: April 14th, 2006 from 8:25am - 3:30pm
Surface Conditions: Spring Snow, Frozen Granular (early) icy patches, bare spots.
My son and I started the day on the Superquad by taking a run down a frozen and uncarvable upper Tote Road. The freezing level must have been at about 2500', because the snow below that level was silky smooth. Our next run was down Kings Landing which like Tote Road had been groomed the night before. Kings Landing was somewhat better and a mix of corn snow and ice cookies.
Warren skied down Tote Road again and I skied Bouble Bitter which was death defying with numerous bare spots and exposed ice, why that trail was open, I still do not understand:uzi: . I meet up with my son and we skied a somewhat frozen Sluice which had nice corn snow down the middle. We took Spillway up to check on the Timberline Quad which was still not open at 10:00am, so we skied down Lower Timberline which had nice groomed snow, to Scoot which was nice as well. Lower Tote Road at this point was already getting very slushy.
We made our was back up the Superquad to the Timberline Quad which was now open and we skied a groomed Timberline which had nice corn snow, but was reduced to 50% width in spots due to snowmelt. Tote Road extension was firm but carvable and we skied down it's length back to our hotel for lunch.
Sugarloaf after 1pm was a transformed mountain with soft corn snow everywhere. Warren and I skied down a virtually unskied Competition Hill which had beautiful corn snow that was not to heavy. We Skied Boomauger as well which had fantastic snow with edge to edge cover and very deep base depths.
Warren ended his day after that and I proceeded to ski terrain off of the Spillway Lift. White Nitro had great spring snow with a firm base underneath. Gondi Line was much the same with soft "speed bump" moguls that exploded when you skied into them, the trail was thin below the gondi mid-station but still fun. Winter's Way from Spillway X-Cut had a hairy approach with several "make or break" turns necessary to avoid large rocks/boulders. The trail was very thin and gave new meaning to the term "thin cover" but was a challenge to ski to the junction with Gondi Line.
I saved my favorite trail on the mountain, Bubblecuffer for the last run. The upper part had very good cover with large moguls in many spots and very little in the way of thin cover, until just past the Gondi mid-station where the trail had sparse snowcover.
By 3:30pm, when I ended my day, the temperature was easily near 70F with bluebird skies. It was easily the warmest day that I ever enjoyed at Sugarloaf, and one of my top five of all time
:razz: . My only complaint was that more of the mountain could easily have been opened. King Pine Bowl had plenty of snowcover as did the Whiffletree area and looked very inviting, but where roped off:evil: :roll:
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