Sunday River - 1/2/10

[WJenness]

Skiing Sunday River today with the girlfriend and friend... late lunch break in the condo now...

Everything out there was super fun this morning, with a couple exceptions:

Obsession - Being prepped for the NorAm race next weekend, feels like it has already been water injected, and thus, firm hard surface.

Northern Lights - Cyclone / State fair are closed, so all the green skiers headed for jordan are getting forced down N.L., resulting in a scraped off surface with people falling everywhere.

Tempest was a lot of work as it is freshly blown, ungroomed snow, but it was fun. Same for Monday Morning.

Rouge Angel and Excalibur were simply stellar today. Also stellar was Right Stuff.

Nap time, then some night skiing.



-w

 

[deadheadskier]

How much snow has fallen?

 

[snowmonster]

How do the glades look?

 

[WJenness]

Sorry for delay, was using my buddy's laptop...

Saturday AM was probably about 6-8" fresh, today was probably around 8-10" ish... tough to tell because it was blown everywhere.

The glades (last tango in particular) looked great. Didn't venture into them as I had the gf with me and she hasn't quite seen the light on glades yet... Even though she's been skiing for about 20 years (since she was 2), just hasn't done it.

Today there were patches of windblown hardpack, interspersed with some nice pow, predominately on skiers left.

Monday Mourning was a trail I could have lapped all day today.

When the winds die down and SR does it's usual phenomenal grooming job, it'll be cruiser heaven for a while... And the woods should still be good.

Ropes dropped on Agony today, there were at least 200 people on that trail at once (unscientific estimate)... Went from only a couple poached lines to almost totally tracked out in probably 15 minutes... Crazy. Looked really nice from the lift, but didn't hit it as the crazy amounts of people on the trail scared me off.

The mountain was virtually empty today. I only paused at the Barker lift once, everything else was ski-on... I think with the foretasted winds everyone high tailed it out of there... Winds were blowing, but not in a direction to kill lifts. Only lift that went on hold today was lift 4 (Locke Triple) at the very start of the day, as lift ops had to shovel snow just above the bottom terminal so that skiers would clear the snow pack on exiting the terminal... Substantial snow drift.

Great day...

Home now... bed time and then work in the AM.

-w

 

[snowmonster]

I'm guilty of participating in the Agony mob scene. I was on the chair going up and the patrollers were right below me. I asked if they were opening it and they said "in a few minutes." Headed down Goat Path and it was off to the races! Nice soft, deep and untracked! So, that's what it feels like! Did about 4 runs on Agony 'til it was completely destroyed.

Did the glades and ducked ropes. Lots of passes were pulled apparently in Jordan. I guess I got lucky today. Best day I have ever had at SR!

 

[WJenness]

I'm guilty of participating in the Agony mob scene. I was on the chair going up and the patrollers were right below me. I asked if they were opening it and they said "in a few minutes." Headed down Goat Path and it was off to the races! Nice soft, deep and untracked! So, that's what it feels like! Did about 4 runs on Agony 'til it was completely destroyed.

Did the glades and ducked ropes. Lots of passes were pulled apparently in Jordan. I guess I got lucky today. Best day I have ever had at SR!

I'm sure that question was asked a few times, but you may have been right near me as I heard that question a couple chairs away from me...

I thoroughly enjoyed the day... had to take a nap during the Pats game to be able to drive home... was so tired.

-w

 

[bigbog]

.......had to take a nap during the Pats game to be able to drive home... was so tired...

Kind of a "What came first... Chicken or the Egg" scenario..!?

 

[Mildcat]

The glades (last tango in particular) looked great. Didn't venture into them as I had the gf with me and she hasn't quite seen the light on glades yet... Even though she's been skiing for about 20 years (since she was 2), just hasn't done it.

Last Tango was a blast yesterday. If you want to get the GF hooked on glades try starting her off on Blind Ambition. It's pretty flat and really spaced out. Not intimidating at all.

 

[WJenness]

Last Tango was a blast yesterday. If you want to get the GF hooked on glades try starting her off on Blind Ambition. It's pretty flat and really spaced out. Not intimidating at all.

Yeah, I plan on venturing into BA next time I'm up... Thanks for the pointer.

-w