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Area skied: Sugarloaf
Dates skied: April 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2007
Surface conditions: powder, loose snow, mank
Weather: cloudy, windy at times, 20s-30s. A foot+ of heavy snow fell overnight Thursday.
Friday morning we started by taking DR to Spillway and joining the crowd of powder hounds scoping everything off the Spillway x-cut. We dropped into White Nitro, something like 2nd/3rd tracks on the trail, deep heavy powder with some knee deep. Lapped Spillway, getting more freshies on Winter's Way and Powder Keg. Realized when people came in from above us that Timberline was running, so we headed there. At the top of the lift saw that the backside was open, so we hiked up. We were in a cloud, so we didn't really know where we were going, but we found lots of untracked windblown snow up here with the occasional scrub tree or rock sticking out. Looped back around and did Cant Dog, then worked our way back across to do it again. On Misery Whip after our second trip out back, got a call from friends and went to meet them at Bullwinkle's.
After lunch we hung out with our friends and took it a bit easier. At one point I accidentally dropped into a glade I had never seen before. It was sweet. Ended the day doing Gondola Line Extension - Bubblecuffer - Rookie River and meeting my friends in the lodge, legs burning.
Saturday was probably the most crowded day of the year. All the lifts had long lines at times. We headed to the woods, which were mostly tracked, soft bumps with occasional powder stashes. Met friends for a nice picnic. Did more woods in the afternoon, then finished with a run down the front face, through Cant Hook, then back up for another trip around back. We went straight from the summit to the end of the condo runout, stopping only to listen to reggae for a minute.
Sunday we did a few runs and could quickly tell that our legs were beat and conditions weren't quite as good as the previous two days. We got a bit glum realizing that this was our last day at the Loaf this year. We did a run down Double Bitter, got a last pint at the Bag and headed out.
Pictures:
Snowfields on Friday
Woods
Picnic spot
Gondola Line
Bubblecuffer
Dates skied: April 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2007
Surface conditions: powder, loose snow, mank
Weather: cloudy, windy at times, 20s-30s. A foot+ of heavy snow fell overnight Thursday.
Friday morning we started by taking DR to Spillway and joining the crowd of powder hounds scoping everything off the Spillway x-cut. We dropped into White Nitro, something like 2nd/3rd tracks on the trail, deep heavy powder with some knee deep. Lapped Spillway, getting more freshies on Winter's Way and Powder Keg. Realized when people came in from above us that Timberline was running, so we headed there. At the top of the lift saw that the backside was open, so we hiked up. We were in a cloud, so we didn't really know where we were going, but we found lots of untracked windblown snow up here with the occasional scrub tree or rock sticking out. Looped back around and did Cant Dog, then worked our way back across to do it again. On Misery Whip after our second trip out back, got a call from friends and went to meet them at Bullwinkle's.
After lunch we hung out with our friends and took it a bit easier. At one point I accidentally dropped into a glade I had never seen before. It was sweet. Ended the day doing Gondola Line Extension - Bubblecuffer - Rookie River and meeting my friends in the lodge, legs burning.
Saturday was probably the most crowded day of the year. All the lifts had long lines at times. We headed to the woods, which were mostly tracked, soft bumps with occasional powder stashes. Met friends for a nice picnic. Did more woods in the afternoon, then finished with a run down the front face, through Cant Hook, then back up for another trip around back. We went straight from the summit to the end of the condo runout, stopping only to listen to reggae for a minute.
Sunday we did a few runs and could quickly tell that our legs were beat and conditions weren't quite as good as the previous two days. We got a bit glum realizing that this was our last day at the Loaf this year. We did a run down Double Bitter, got a last pint at the Bag and headed out.
Pictures:
Snowfields on Friday
Woods
Picnic spot
Gondola Line
Bubblecuffer
