loafer89
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Area skied: Sugarloaf/USA
Date skied: April 13th, 2007 from 8:45am - 3:00pm.
Surface conditions: powder, 6" at the base 14" at the summit.
Weather: cloudy, snow squall from 11:30am - 2:00pm with 2" additional snow, 29F at 8:45am, 36F at 3:00pm
We started out the day digging out our car from the 6-8" of snow in Rangeley and making the 35 minute drive to Sugarloaf.
We started off taking the Superquad to the Timberline Quad and waited for it to open and had 3rd chair up.
Our first run was down an untouched Binder with 8-10" of snow with deeper drifts.
Timberline was next with freshly groomed corduroy and silky soft snow.
I skied the backside next and it's been 10 years to the month since I was last there. I skied High-Rigger and it's quite steep in spots, but cover was great with no fear of hitting rocks.
I rejoined Warren on Boardwalk and we skied Double Bitter to Haywire and the terrain park with deep powder and nice lines. Next was Tote Road and a powder filled Ram Pasture glade.
Glancer was next and we skied deep powder in Raker Tooth Glade. Suprisingly booth Glancer and Windrow where tracked up as this is usually a powder preserve late in a powder day.
We waited for BobR at Bulwinkle's from 11:30 until 12pm and ate lunch as well, but never saw him or Az people.
At this point it started to snow moderately and we skied to Spillway and we skied Timberline again with 2" of new snow on the trail. Warren decided that he wanted to ski the backside so we skied High-Rigger again with near zero visability and wind whipped snow. It was a total whiteout above treeline and hard to see the snow surface.
Warren skied it slowly and took a few falls, but made it down. With the high wind and rime/snow we where totally frosted by the time we reached Ramdown and looked like polar explorers caught in a blizzard.
Ramdown was nice with mini powder moguls, and we skied to Broccoli Garden/Stubs Glade with untracked powder.
Our last run was off Spillway, Warren down Tote Road and me down White Nitro.
White Nitro was awesome with powder turns all the way to Wedge. Wedge had perfectly formed powder bumps that where the best that I have skied this year with absolutely no ice anywhere on the trail.
We plan to stay/ski until tuesday if the huge storm hits. Rumors are 12-18" of snow sunday-monday, incredible.
Date skied: April 13th, 2007 from 8:45am - 3:00pm.
Surface conditions: powder, 6" at the base 14" at the summit.
Weather: cloudy, snow squall from 11:30am - 2:00pm with 2" additional snow, 29F at 8:45am, 36F at 3:00pm
We started out the day digging out our car from the 6-8" of snow in Rangeley and making the 35 minute drive to Sugarloaf.
We started off taking the Superquad to the Timberline Quad and waited for it to open and had 3rd chair up.
Our first run was down an untouched Binder with 8-10" of snow with deeper drifts.
Timberline was next with freshly groomed corduroy and silky soft snow.
I skied the backside next and it's been 10 years to the month since I was last there. I skied High-Rigger and it's quite steep in spots, but cover was great with no fear of hitting rocks.
I rejoined Warren on Boardwalk and we skied Double Bitter to Haywire and the terrain park with deep powder and nice lines. Next was Tote Road and a powder filled Ram Pasture glade.
Glancer was next and we skied deep powder in Raker Tooth Glade. Suprisingly booth Glancer and Windrow where tracked up as this is usually a powder preserve late in a powder day.
We waited for BobR at Bulwinkle's from 11:30 until 12pm and ate lunch as well, but never saw him or Az people.
At this point it started to snow moderately and we skied to Spillway and we skied Timberline again with 2" of new snow on the trail. Warren decided that he wanted to ski the backside so we skied High-Rigger again with near zero visability and wind whipped snow. It was a total whiteout above treeline and hard to see the snow surface.
Warren skied it slowly and took a few falls, but made it down. With the high wind and rime/snow we where totally frosted by the time we reached Ramdown and looked like polar explorers caught in a blizzard.
Ramdown was nice with mini powder moguls, and we skied to Broccoli Garden/Stubs Glade with untracked powder.
Our last run was off Spillway, Warren down Tote Road and me down White Nitro.
White Nitro was awesome with powder turns all the way to Wedge. Wedge had perfectly formed powder bumps that where the best that I have skied this year with absolutely no ice anywhere on the trail.
We plan to stay/ski until tuesday if the huge storm hits. Rumors are 12-18" of snow sunday-monday, incredible.
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