snowmonster
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Date(s) Skied: 4/18/2011 (Patriots' Day/ Marathon Monday)
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Cloudy, cold and frozen granular early in the day. As the sun came up, it warmed a bit and turned the snow into creamy corn goodness. Hi 49- Lo 34, Wind 5 mph
Trip Report: Instead of being 26.2 miles from Boston, I was closer to 200 miles away. It was a most glorious day at the River!
I came up the day before and arrived just in time for the passholders' barbecue at South Ridge. It had rained in the morning but I got there just in time for the sun to come up and bake the snow. The afternoon snow was very heavy, especially in the untracked portions. Aftershock and its bumps were great though and were easily the run of the day. The groomers came out at 4 and tilled Barker. The pipe cutter even came out and made several passes in front of the pipe at Barker. I was skiing with snoseek and we were anticipating a great day the next day.
On Patriots' Day, snoseek and I started at 930 in cloudy and cold weather. The trails were frozen cord and we rattled down different trails in Barker. We kept looking for breaks in the clouds. We knew that just a little solar gain was all that it needed to soften up. The sun eventually came out at around 11 and did its magic. Monday Mourning was the trail of the day. Nothing like nice edgeable snow to crank out fast GS turns. We even hit the halfpipe for good measure.
We met up with the rest of the SR crew including monkeybrook and we hit different trails on Barker, Spruce and Locke. Because the snow was softening, we decided to jump into Locke Line, Wildfire and Upper Sunday Punch. They eventually dropped the rope on Agony and Top Gun and those were great. Had to call it a day at 330. This day was amazing!
There's still a lot of cover on Sunday River and they can definitely go into May if they want to. I've seen this place in mid-April where they were farming snow. Definitely, that's not the case this year.
Sunday evening grooming to set up a great Patriots' Day ski:
Halfpipe looking sweet:
Looking up and down T2:
Agony:
Locke Line:
Even the woods were skiable:
Still great cover on Lower Sunday Punch:
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: Cloudy, cold and frozen granular early in the day. As the sun came up, it warmed a bit and turned the snow into creamy corn goodness. Hi 49- Lo 34, Wind 5 mph
Trip Report: Instead of being 26.2 miles from Boston, I was closer to 200 miles away. It was a most glorious day at the River!
I came up the day before and arrived just in time for the passholders' barbecue at South Ridge. It had rained in the morning but I got there just in time for the sun to come up and bake the snow. The afternoon snow was very heavy, especially in the untracked portions. Aftershock and its bumps were great though and were easily the run of the day. The groomers came out at 4 and tilled Barker. The pipe cutter even came out and made several passes in front of the pipe at Barker. I was skiing with snoseek and we were anticipating a great day the next day.
On Patriots' Day, snoseek and I started at 930 in cloudy and cold weather. The trails were frozen cord and we rattled down different trails in Barker. We kept looking for breaks in the clouds. We knew that just a little solar gain was all that it needed to soften up. The sun eventually came out at around 11 and did its magic. Monday Mourning was the trail of the day. Nothing like nice edgeable snow to crank out fast GS turns. We even hit the halfpipe for good measure.
We met up with the rest of the SR crew including monkeybrook and we hit different trails on Barker, Spruce and Locke. Because the snow was softening, we decided to jump into Locke Line, Wildfire and Upper Sunday Punch. They eventually dropped the rope on Agony and Top Gun and those were great. Had to call it a day at 330. This day was amazing!
There's still a lot of cover on Sunday River and they can definitely go into May if they want to. I've seen this place in mid-April where they were farming snow. Definitely, that's not the case this year.
Sunday evening grooming to set up a great Patriots' Day ski:
Halfpipe looking sweet:
Looking up and down T2:
Agony:
Locke Line:
Even the woods were skiable:
Still great cover on Lower Sunday Punch:
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