Date(s) Skied: Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Resort or Ski Area: Tenney Mountain
Conditions: Powder, chopped Powder
Trip Report:
Great afternoon at Tenney today. I'm kicking myself for not getting up and on the road early. Oh well, late night with my brother and future sister in law, sleep happens. My commute that normally takes 1:30 took nearly 2:45, which wasn't helped by my decision to take route 4 instead of 101. Apparently 4 in NH isn't a high priority road for plowing.
Skied from 12:30 to 3:45. While the last day I was at Tenney, the long slow double didn't bother me much while skiing groomers, but on a powder day that fifteen minute ride seems like an hour. I rode the lift with one guy who has had a pass at Tenney every year they've been open for the past 17 seasons. He had recently met the owner whom told him that they will be putting in a HSQ in a couple of seasons. I'll believe it when I see it. If they did and re-worked a few other things regarding snow making, I bet the area could prosper, it's as close or closer than Loon to Boston and while having inferior terrain, the trails do have some decent character and the mountain skis a lot bigger than it is. I'd re-purpose the double for over where most of the 'expert' terrain is personally.
Tenney in a way reminds me of Black Mountain, NH a little bit. It has small stretches of pitch followed by flats. I got to check out most of the glades and in my three days out there, I've managed to cover about 90% of the marked terrain. Also found my first off map stash, which as is usually the case was better than anything on the map, pretty decent pitch and only one other person had been in there. I'm eager to find more. I have a feeling that outside the skier area boundary to skiers right holds some interesting lines that could feed back to the tubing area, but from there would require a shuttle back to the ski area.
Photos:
Hardwood glades, most of the marked trees are just like this, loosely spaced, low angle, but still a lot of fun. Fresh powder was available all day and I'd imagine will be all day tomorrow.
Engleswood Glade
The Stash I found, much more pitcher and tighter trees than the marked glades. Also deeper snow, was definitely to the tops of my boots.
NELSAP area? Nope, trail called Forget Me Not, which does have some areas of decent pitch to it, but a ton of Pucker brush, which actually made it a bit interesting with little chutes on either side. Tenney in general has a lot of pucker brush coming up through the snow, which a little is manageable, but in some areas like this, unskiable.
Dana and his lady riding the chair
Random Tele dude under the double
Crowded Holiday weekend at Tenney
This was the longest line all day, a whopping six chairs; most of the time we skied right on.
Resort or Ski Area: Tenney Mountain
Conditions: Powder, chopped Powder
Trip Report:
Great afternoon at Tenney today. I'm kicking myself for not getting up and on the road early. Oh well, late night with my brother and future sister in law, sleep happens. My commute that normally takes 1:30 took nearly 2:45, which wasn't helped by my decision to take route 4 instead of 101. Apparently 4 in NH isn't a high priority road for plowing.
Skied from 12:30 to 3:45. While the last day I was at Tenney, the long slow double didn't bother me much while skiing groomers, but on a powder day that fifteen minute ride seems like an hour. I rode the lift with one guy who has had a pass at Tenney every year they've been open for the past 17 seasons. He had recently met the owner whom told him that they will be putting in a HSQ in a couple of seasons. I'll believe it when I see it. If they did and re-worked a few other things regarding snow making, I bet the area could prosper, it's as close or closer than Loon to Boston and while having inferior terrain, the trails do have some decent character and the mountain skis a lot bigger than it is. I'd re-purpose the double for over where most of the 'expert' terrain is personally.
Tenney in a way reminds me of Black Mountain, NH a little bit. It has small stretches of pitch followed by flats. I got to check out most of the glades and in my three days out there, I've managed to cover about 90% of the marked terrain. Also found my first off map stash, which as is usually the case was better than anything on the map, pretty decent pitch and only one other person had been in there. I'm eager to find more. I have a feeling that outside the skier area boundary to skiers right holds some interesting lines that could feed back to the tubing area, but from there would require a shuttle back to the ski area.
Photos:
Hardwood glades, most of the marked trees are just like this, loosely spaced, low angle, but still a lot of fun. Fresh powder was available all day and I'd imagine will be all day tomorrow.
Engleswood Glade
The Stash I found, much more pitcher and tighter trees than the marked glades. Also deeper snow, was definitely to the tops of my boots.
NELSAP area? Nope, trail called Forget Me Not, which does have some areas of decent pitch to it, but a ton of Pucker brush, which actually made it a bit interesting with little chutes on either side. Tenney in general has a lot of pucker brush coming up through the snow, which a little is manageable, but in some areas like this, unskiable.
Dana and his lady riding the chair
Random Tele dude under the double
Crowded Holiday weekend at Tenney
This was the longest line all day, a whopping six chairs; most of the time we skied right on.
