Joshua
Member
As promised, I went up to Sunday River Sunday night for a 3 night 2 day stretch.
Left Sunday afternoon a little bumbed because of the weather, and arrived to light snow. One inch fell overnight and me and my buddy were firsts on the mountain Monday morning
Monday: Warm at the base, windy at the top. Some packed powder, but mostly frozen granular. The mountain had some good bases but the harsh winter was showing its ugly face. Even with the inch of snow, things were icy at the top. Also got into a little trouble as my friend and I ducked a rope on a closed trail and got caught when we went back up the lift. Ski Patrol was waiting and wrote our names down. He was nice, and we felt stupid breaking the rules on the second run. All in all, a fun day. Not too warm or cold, and trials were fast.
Tuesday: Temps dropped fast Monday night and I knew things would be icy the next morning. Talk of a storm was all about, and my friend and I decided that first tracks were not going to be special so we skied half a day. It was icy and skied off, not very fun. We behaved and it was still better than being at work
Wednesday: It started snowing about 11pm and when we woke up there was about 3 inches. We knew the storm was going to the south, but it didn't stop tons of people from coming up the night before with hopes of a foot of snow. Yeah right. We had first tracks with fresh powder and it was very nice. Light snow was falling, 5 new trials opened and we had a blast for three hours in 30 degree temps and powder. After we ran out of freshies, we hopped in our car and came back to Mass, only to see Mount Snow 12+. Oh well, so be it.
Sunday River is beautiful, well groomed, nice people, and good food at the Matterhorn. Prices on the mountain are out of control.
Happy St. Patty's day to you all!!!
Joshua
Left Sunday afternoon a little bumbed because of the weather, and arrived to light snow. One inch fell overnight and me and my buddy were firsts on the mountain Monday morning
Monday: Warm at the base, windy at the top. Some packed powder, but mostly frozen granular. The mountain had some good bases but the harsh winter was showing its ugly face. Even with the inch of snow, things were icy at the top. Also got into a little trouble as my friend and I ducked a rope on a closed trail and got caught when we went back up the lift. Ski Patrol was waiting and wrote our names down. He was nice, and we felt stupid breaking the rules on the second run. All in all, a fun day. Not too warm or cold, and trials were fast.
Tuesday: Temps dropped fast Monday night and I knew things would be icy the next morning. Talk of a storm was all about, and my friend and I decided that first tracks were not going to be special so we skied half a day. It was icy and skied off, not very fun. We behaved and it was still better than being at work
Wednesday: It started snowing about 11pm and when we woke up there was about 3 inches. We knew the storm was going to the south, but it didn't stop tons of people from coming up the night before with hopes of a foot of snow. Yeah right. We had first tracks with fresh powder and it was very nice. Light snow was falling, 5 new trials opened and we had a blast for three hours in 30 degree temps and powder. After we ran out of freshies, we hopped in our car and came back to Mass, only to see Mount Snow 12+. Oh well, so be it.
Sunday River is beautiful, well groomed, nice people, and good food at the Matterhorn. Prices on the mountain are out of control.
Happy St. Patty's day to you all!!!
Joshua
