Sunday River - 11/30

[trtaylor]

Date Skied: 11/30/07

Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River

Conditions: Machine-made packed powder

Trip Report: My first time skiing at Sunday River. We arrived Barker Lodge at 9:45 and we were on the Sunday River Express by 10:15. Made repeated runs down Jungle Road/Sunday Punch. Also a few runs down Ecstasy.

Took Lazy River over to Tourist Trap and also made a few runs over on South Ridge, following some of the Gould Academy kids on their training runs.

It was a little windy up top, but not too bad. We stopped for lunch and afterwards the wind had subsided. It had turned into a super day.

Run of the day for me was Risky Business from Spruce Peak. I wish I had hit it when my legs were fresh. That is a fun trail.

We finished the day with a run down Southpaw (Barker). A nice narrow trail that we should have hit sooner. It was mostly scraped off by the end of the day.

They ran snow guns on many of the Barker trails all day. With the weather conditions such as they are, Sunday River is going to be in good shape for quite a while.

The only disappoinment was the trail report showed Locke Mountain as open, but Lift #4 never spun.

Sorry, no pictures. Had the camera with me, but as it was our first day out we never felt like stopping.

 

[Vortex]

Locke has been down a few times recently. It was down Monday, but we went across jim's whim to get to T2. Jungle road to Sunday punch same approach. Hope you got over to the North Peak. Dream maker was really good.

 

[trtaylor]

Locke has been down a few times recently. It was down Monday, but we went across jim's whim to get to T2. Jungle road to Sunday punch same approach. Hope you got over to the North Peak. Dream maker was really good.

I missed North Peak, unfortunately. As it was my first day there I kind of overlooked it. How do you get there from Barker or Spruce?

 

[Terry]

From Spruce peak take American Express down. About a third of the way down there is a trail that cuts to the left. I can't remember the name of it,but it takes you down to the North Peak lodge. From there you can take escapade down to the North Peak quad.

 

[Vortex]

Look some of us up next time your around. Really only need to know a few trails to get around. If you don't you will end up being one of those that says all you do is traverse here. Still like that Avatar Terry. We went down senstaion to get to Aurora I believe. I have hiked that to get out of Aurora post season.

 

[ga2ski]

Locke triple is closed most midweek non-holiday days. You are only missing about 300-500 vertical feet of T2 and Sunday Punch. And Bim's Whim (when it is open)

 

[Vortex]

If your there on a Sat, Sunday or holiday you will have to race Ga2ski for 1st chair off the Locke high speed tripple..:wink: