ctenidae
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The skills of the groomers at Sunapee is amazing. Utterly amazing.
They blew snow Friday and Saturday and groomed the bejesus out of everything, so Sunday was actually pretty nice. It was snowing lightly all day, and cloudy, but the wind wasn't too bad, so what snow there was stayed in place.
As usual, we avoided the front face like the plague. Took one run down Blast Off. The drop in at the top was a solid glacier, but all the snow was piled up at the bottom of it. As usual, the trail was crowded and pretty chopped up. It kind of felt like skiing on gravel.
Sunbowl was quite nice. Hard pack covered in very dry manmade snow, with some decent soft depth on the sides. Skyway Ledges was excellent, as usual, as a fast, wide super-cruiser.
Lynx and Goosebumps were pretty patchy, as expected for their pitches, but not terrible. We even did a few runs in the terrain park, which had probably the best snow on the whole mountain.
The mountain was pretty empty, too- we parked in the close lot, no need for the bus.
Overall, it was the Sunapee we've come to love, well done snow despite the difficulties.
They blew snow Friday and Saturday and groomed the bejesus out of everything, so Sunday was actually pretty nice. It was snowing lightly all day, and cloudy, but the wind wasn't too bad, so what snow there was stayed in place.
As usual, we avoided the front face like the plague. Took one run down Blast Off. The drop in at the top was a solid glacier, but all the snow was piled up at the bottom of it. As usual, the trail was crowded and pretty chopped up. It kind of felt like skiing on gravel.
Sunbowl was quite nice. Hard pack covered in very dry manmade snow, with some decent soft depth on the sides. Skyway Ledges was excellent, as usual, as a fast, wide super-cruiser.
Lynx and Goosebumps were pretty patchy, as expected for their pitches, but not terrible. We even did a few runs in the terrain park, which had probably the best snow on the whole mountain.
The mountain was pretty empty, too- we parked in the close lot, no need for the bus.
Overall, it was the Sunapee we've come to love, well done snow despite the difficulties.
