Sunapee is making bumps tonite!

[jack97]

from their web page

Calling all bumpers! We will be building two mogul runs tonight on Upper Flying Goose and Upper Chipmunk. We will dust off the bumps with snowmaking tonight so they will be sweet Saturday morning.



the link to the page itself.
http://www.mtsunapee.com/mtsunapeewinter/onthemountain/sunapeesnowreport.asp

 

[Greg]

I gotta give Sunapee a try again sometime...

 

[MrMagic]

very nice maybe a AZ trip?

 

[Greg]

Sunapee seeds some sick lookin' bumps:

 

[deadheadskier]

Sunapee seeds some sick lookin' bumps:

Skied this last April. Though the bumps got pretty played and jarring by the end of the day, there's no doubt that's a great bump run. The picture actually makes it look a bit steeper than what it is, but it is a great pitch for bumps. I was planning on Shawnee Peak on Sunday, but Sunapee might be a good call. Sunday afternoon's are $32 for NH residents. It's January and I've skied about twenty bumps all year, getting sick of groomers

 

[jack97]

Sunapee seeds some sick lookin' bumps:

For those who don't know, the pic is upper flying goose. Yes, the pic is tilted but the trail does have a decent pitch (even without bumps, i figure the place would still mark it a single black diamond) and its long. I have yet to make that run top to bottom.

Upper chipmunk usually has a small bump section and the trail has a tamer pitch.


Damn.... I'm stoked, just got to figure out how to get out this w/e.

 

[Bumpsis]

Hmm... I was thinking about having a nice aerobic workout tomorrow at XC trails at Waterville, but this may change my mind. Sunapee is kind of expensive but they Flying Goose bumps are great when fresh.

 

[deadheadskier]

and its long. I have yet to make that run top to bottom.

no doubt

It's not to be confused with Outer Limits, but it's definitely a long run of bumps, far longer than a course length. You'd have to be in great shape to run the full thing at speed in one shot.

 

[gmcunni]

sweet, i'm skiing sunapee on MLK weekend

 

[2knees]

i will make it there this year. hell, maybe even sunday!

steveo, what say you? that would sure beat beartrap.

 

[Zand]

Chipmunk!?!? Are they TRYING to kill people now? That'll be interesting.

But anyway, glad to hear the Flying Goose bumps are going in again. I've only seen them once in my life... back in 03. Haven't seen them since. Gotta get up there later in the season.

 

[hammer]

Chipmunk!?!? Are they TRYING to kill people now? That'll be interesting.

But anyway, glad to hear the Flying Goose bumps are going in again. I've only seen them once in my life... back in 03. Haven't seen them since. Gotta get up there later in the season.

IIRC the bump field on Chipmunk is pretty small...good place for the "aspiring" bumpers. They usualy set up bumps on Liftline in the Sunbowl as well.

 

[powbmps]

IIRC the bump field on Chipmunk is pretty small...good place for the "aspiring" bumpers. They usualy set up bumps on Liftline in the Sunbowl as well.

True. The section on Chipmunk is great for people just learning. Short and relatively flat.

 

[KevinF]

I took a (as in one) run on Sunapee's bumps on Saturday. I'm not a great bumper by any stretch, but I found the bumps on Saturday to be pretty badly shaped. They were obviously machine made and so they had lots of big "chunks / blocks" of snow all over them. I found it wicked easy to catch an edge if you were going over the bumps... if you stayed strictly in the troughs, they were ok, but that's not generally how I ski bumps.

Anyway, the Sunapee bump skier team was out hammering in the lines, so the lines have probably gotten a lot smoother.

All that said, I still vastly prefer skier-made bumps.

 

[2knees]

without discussing which is better, i will say skiing catted bumps that soon after they've been made is rough. I've done it too. I prefer ice bumps. lol.

either are fine in my book. main difference being that true leg burnering big vert bump runs are rarely seeded. examples being rumble, liftline, middle earth and c-rock run at sugarbush.