Date(s) Skied: Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Spring skiing, but a bit wild. Sunny and Nice, then windy with some flurries or sleet. Few drops of rain here and there. Oz started the day on freeze hold.
Trip Report:
Got to Sunday River and booted up around 10 today. Was planning on just lapping the bump course all day, but had I bothered to research, I'd have found out that the comp was still going on. :dunce:
I was impressed to find that Sunday River managed to push around snow to have skiing from Jordan all the way to White Cap. I started the day with a run down Lazy mile to check out Spruce. Seemed fairly played out with lots of areas of ten foot snow/gravel paths. Only full trail open at that point further west was Lollapalooza on Jordan, which didn't seem worth the journey out, so I decided to stay back at Locke/Barker Oz eventually softened and opened, but I didn't ski it. Heard it was epic.
I was fairly bummed that the only bumps (that I knew of) available were being used for the competition. I did very much enjoy watching some rippers tear it up. After a couple of runs on Barker and watching the comp, I made my way over to White Cap. Great crowd down there for the pond skim. I high tailed it out of there though as the only thing worse to my ears than Jimmy Buffet are Jimmy Buffet cover bands. Stinky cheese
Had a beer with BobR around lunch time. Bust and Burn finally finished up and after they cleared the snow fencing and starting line, I was right on up there and lapped the course a good 8 times. Both course lines were okay, but played. The middle line between the two was MONEY.
I met up with Snowmonster for two runds to finish out the day. Also met and rode the lift with JerryG and his wife. Snowmonster took me out to Downdraft. I should've been there all day as the bumps were fantastic.
All in all, I had 9 ripping bump runs for the day, so I was very pleased. Those who read my posts would know that good bumps have been fairly elusive to me this season.
Next weekend, I expend one maybe two runs down from Barker. Mountain was pretty much toast after today. Only trails left with great coverage are Sunday Punch and Rocking Chair. I'd be surprised if lower Monday Morning holds on for another week.
Photos:
Bump Course
Bump Course
Top Air. Landing was really short, so the top airs were fairly conservative
Bottom Air had a much Bigger landing area and saw some skiers hucking pretty huge
Pond Skim
Folks getting ready for the pond skim. Even a crappy photographer with a crappy camera has to snap shots when chicks in bikinis on skis are present. :lol:
What I finally got to enjoy for the afternoon
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Spring skiing, but a bit wild. Sunny and Nice, then windy with some flurries or sleet. Few drops of rain here and there. Oz started the day on freeze hold.
Trip Report:
Got to Sunday River and booted up around 10 today. Was planning on just lapping the bump course all day, but had I bothered to research, I'd have found out that the comp was still going on. :dunce:
I was impressed to find that Sunday River managed to push around snow to have skiing from Jordan all the way to White Cap. I started the day with a run down Lazy mile to check out Spruce. Seemed fairly played out with lots of areas of ten foot snow/gravel paths. Only full trail open at that point further west was Lollapalooza on Jordan, which didn't seem worth the journey out, so I decided to stay back at Locke/Barker Oz eventually softened and opened, but I didn't ski it. Heard it was epic.
I was fairly bummed that the only bumps (that I knew of) available were being used for the competition. I did very much enjoy watching some rippers tear it up. After a couple of runs on Barker and watching the comp, I made my way over to White Cap. Great crowd down there for the pond skim. I high tailed it out of there though as the only thing worse to my ears than Jimmy Buffet are Jimmy Buffet cover bands. Stinky cheese
Had a beer with BobR around lunch time. Bust and Burn finally finished up and after they cleared the snow fencing and starting line, I was right on up there and lapped the course a good 8 times. Both course lines were okay, but played. The middle line between the two was MONEY.
I met up with Snowmonster for two runds to finish out the day. Also met and rode the lift with JerryG and his wife. Snowmonster took me out to Downdraft. I should've been there all day as the bumps were fantastic.
All in all, I had 9 ripping bump runs for the day, so I was very pleased. Those who read my posts would know that good bumps have been fairly elusive to me this season.
Next weekend, I expend one maybe two runs down from Barker. Mountain was pretty much toast after today. Only trails left with great coverage are Sunday Punch and Rocking Chair. I'd be surprised if lower Monday Morning holds on for another week.
Photos:
Bump Course
Bump Course
Top Air. Landing was really short, so the top airs were fairly conservative
Bottom Air had a much Bigger landing area and saw some skiers hucking pretty huge
Pond Skim
Folks getting ready for the pond skim. Even a crappy photographer with a crappy camera has to snap shots when chicks in bikinis on skis are present. :lol:
What I finally got to enjoy for the afternoon
You made the best of it though and it sounds like it worked out well for you. 
