Johnskiismore
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Area Skied: Sunday River
Conditions: FRGR, LSGR, MGR, VC
Trip Report: Another beautiful day to hit the slopes in western Maine! Hardly a cloud in the sky and I was actually counting on it being spring like today! Spring like in temps that is. Temperature never got above 45F, which of course would seem really warm but for the past for Sunday's I have been to the river it has been in the high fifties to high sixties skiing in a sweatshirt or just a t-shirt as the day went on!
Started down T2 around ten and immediately realized I should not have brought the rock skis... I needed to use my edges! That's okay, just use more muscle and you can carve those turns. That's what I did, snow gripped nicely on the grommed areas, and I could hold it on LSGR.
Did T2 about three times before going down Upper Sunday Punch. USP had more of the FRGR and some icy spots. This was difficult as I kept sliding out of almost each carve.... I'm not kidding my rock skis have no edge. That's fine though, hit the trail a few times and back over to T2. Definately better for my circumstance.
After about noon some areas were getting scrapped off, but on either side of the trail you could find some soft LSGR in the sun. Got another four runs in and decided to call it a day. This where I made bad juudgement.
Sunday Punch was all grey, and I could not tell the surface condition. Figured it was a bit icy, but didn't think it was a sheet. Well, it was a sheet. Good edges no problem, glorified sticks we had a problem! After three of what you would call accident in the making turns I crossed my tips and WHAM, end over end on my head (yes, it is good I had a helmet on) and landed on my wrist.... And if I had the strap of the pole on the wrong way, that could've been the season. I'm writing this more for your entertainment than putting a dig on SR, I should've downloaded! I walked the rest of the way down with little birds flying around my head.
It was a good day to be out skiing. Seeing that it might rain on Friday I will probably be back tomorrow. Snow was made on the previous night on the trails that were open as well as Cascades and Ecstacy, from what I could see.
Conditions: FRGR, LSGR, MGR, VC
Trip Report: Another beautiful day to hit the slopes in western Maine! Hardly a cloud in the sky and I was actually counting on it being spring like today! Spring like in temps that is. Temperature never got above 45F, which of course would seem really warm but for the past for Sunday's I have been to the river it has been in the high fifties to high sixties skiing in a sweatshirt or just a t-shirt as the day went on!
Started down T2 around ten and immediately realized I should not have brought the rock skis... I needed to use my edges! That's okay, just use more muscle and you can carve those turns. That's what I did, snow gripped nicely on the grommed areas, and I could hold it on LSGR.
Did T2 about three times before going down Upper Sunday Punch. USP had more of the FRGR and some icy spots. This was difficult as I kept sliding out of almost each carve.... I'm not kidding my rock skis have no edge. That's fine though, hit the trail a few times and back over to T2. Definately better for my circumstance.
After about noon some areas were getting scrapped off, but on either side of the trail you could find some soft LSGR in the sun. Got another four runs in and decided to call it a day. This where I made bad juudgement.
Sunday Punch was all grey, and I could not tell the surface condition. Figured it was a bit icy, but didn't think it was a sheet. Well, it was a sheet. Good edges no problem, glorified sticks we had a problem! After three of what you would call accident in the making turns I crossed my tips and WHAM, end over end on my head (yes, it is good I had a helmet on) and landed on my wrist.... And if I had the strap of the pole on the wrong way, that could've been the season. I'm writing this more for your entertainment than putting a dig on SR, I should've downloaded! I walked the rest of the way down with little birds flying around my head.
It was a good day to be out skiing. Seeing that it might rain on Friday I will probably be back tomorrow. Snow was made on the previous night on the trails that were open as well as Cascades and Ecstacy, from what I could see.
