loafer89
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Area skied: Sugarloaf/USA Maine
Date skied: 4/18/07 from 9:00am-4:00pm.
Surface conditions: Wet packed powder, powder higher up above 3000'. 3" new at the base 5" at the summit.
Weather: fog and mist before 2pm, then slow clearing to the summit.
Where to start with todays conditions, lets see. No Superquad running due to a snapped communication cable near the top of Competition Hill. No Spillway chair because the cat digging out the bottom loading area got stuck in the snow and broke a tread.
I rode the T-bar up which had a snow/ice laden tree hanging above the T-bar line at a better than 45 degree angle, interesting.
I took one run hiking run from Spillway X-cut to Cant Dog and scored first tracks in the powder. That is one long steep glade that ends at the bottom of King Pine.
There was no summit access for a short time while the tree on the T-bar line was removed.
We ate an early lunch and then I did a hike to ski run down Bubblecuffer. The snow was dry and fluffy for the first few hundred feet down the trail before becoming wet and heavy, certainly not as light and powdery as yesterday.
Warren and I took one T-bar ride together that really hurt my legs trying to compensate for the height difference between us. We skied a nearly untouched Tote Road which was groomed and had great snow until just below Chicken Pitch where the snow was like wallpaper paste.
By this time Spillway West opened up and we skied Kings Landing twice which had 3-4" of wet powder over groomed snow allowing for soft easy turns. Hayburner was much the same and both runs ended by skiing Peavy X-Cut back to Spillway.
I skied Competition Hill alone and it was cut up powder near the top and heavy wet snow below Sheerboom.
We did a traverse to Ramdown which had cut up glue like snow back to Spillway. Our last run was Tote Road to Scoot, Scoot had awful, thick gluey snow that I thought might tear of my bindings.
Warren ended the day skiing down the staircase below the Landing.
Date skied: 4/18/07 from 9:00am-4:00pm.
Surface conditions: Wet packed powder, powder higher up above 3000'. 3" new at the base 5" at the summit.
Weather: fog and mist before 2pm, then slow clearing to the summit.
Where to start with todays conditions, lets see. No Superquad running due to a snapped communication cable near the top of Competition Hill. No Spillway chair because the cat digging out the bottom loading area got stuck in the snow and broke a tread.
I rode the T-bar up which had a snow/ice laden tree hanging above the T-bar line at a better than 45 degree angle, interesting.
I took one run hiking run from Spillway X-cut to Cant Dog and scored first tracks in the powder. That is one long steep glade that ends at the bottom of King Pine.
There was no summit access for a short time while the tree on the T-bar line was removed.
We ate an early lunch and then I did a hike to ski run down Bubblecuffer. The snow was dry and fluffy for the first few hundred feet down the trail before becoming wet and heavy, certainly not as light and powdery as yesterday.
Warren and I took one T-bar ride together that really hurt my legs trying to compensate for the height difference between us. We skied a nearly untouched Tote Road which was groomed and had great snow until just below Chicken Pitch where the snow was like wallpaper paste.
By this time Spillway West opened up and we skied Kings Landing twice which had 3-4" of wet powder over groomed snow allowing for soft easy turns. Hayburner was much the same and both runs ended by skiing Peavy X-Cut back to Spillway.
I skied Competition Hill alone and it was cut up powder near the top and heavy wet snow below Sheerboom.
We did a traverse to Ramdown which had cut up glue like snow back to Spillway. Our last run was Tote Road to Scoot, Scoot had awful, thick gluey snow that I thought might tear of my bindings.
Warren ended the day skiing down the staircase below the Landing.
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