salsgang
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Date(s) Skied: December 19, 2009
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: PP to "Scrapy" / Loose Powder
Trip Report: Had a nice day at Sunday River today with Boy #1 and Boy #2. Wife #1 (I only have one of those) kicked us out of the house and stayed home to do Xmas prep. We booted up in Barker and got on the lift around 8:15 AM. We decided to do the early morning trek over to the Jordan area to rip some cord. I didn't carefully study the open terrain map and kind of paid for it in the morning and we did the "Sunday River Shuffle".
Shuffle #1 - I say "Boys at the top of Barker we can hit Lazy River over to the Spruce Triple and drop into Aurora from there". Get to the top, Whoops - snowmaking on Lazy River trail closed. We go down a very icy Right Stuff and down to South Branch. Not a good start.
Shuffle #2 - I say "Boys lets go up the Chondola we will go down Dreammaker and drop into Aurora from there. Wrong again nothing open left over there. North peak Quad is not running so we have to go down to South Ridge again. Dreammaker is a nice run however.
Shuffle #3 - I say "Boys I have figured it out now. Up the Sunday River Express, over to the Spruce Triple and then from the top of Spruce we can drop into Aurora on Sirus and Aludra." "Yeah Right Dad!" they say. Can't blame them. We make it to the top of the Spuce Triple, down Aludra and then fail to realize we need to traverse up a bit to get into Northern Lights. Instead we take a right on Lights Out and we are back on North Peak again. GROOAN. Nice run down Escapade though. Lots of soft snow on skiers right.
Shuffle #4 - We finally do it correctly up Spuce and traverse over to Northern Lights. We were greeted by very light crowds and excellent conditions on Northen Lights and Lallapalooza. Apparently everyone else was trying to figure out how to get over there too.
By that time it was practically lunch however. :beer:
Overall a very good day. The middle of the trails got scrapped off by midday as usual but there was all kinds of soft snow on the trial edges. We had a blast. Lower T2 was exceptionally fluffy on the sides. They opened up Lazy River midday and it had huge snowmaking whales which made a usually rolling trail extremely rolly but it was very fun. We tried the last Tango glade but once you got outside of the snowmaking range of Lazy River it was pretty thin.
So besides our morning run-around, we still had a really good day. Sunday River is the king of blowing early-season stink for sure.
We just don't ski Sunday River enough to know the lay of the land enough when not everything is open. Couple of pics.
Looking up Risky Business
Looking down Lollapalooza
Resort or Ski Area: Sunday River
Conditions: PP to "Scrapy" / Loose Powder
Trip Report: Had a nice day at Sunday River today with Boy #1 and Boy #2. Wife #1 (I only have one of those) kicked us out of the house and stayed home to do Xmas prep. We booted up in Barker and got on the lift around 8:15 AM. We decided to do the early morning trek over to the Jordan area to rip some cord. I didn't carefully study the open terrain map and kind of paid for it in the morning and we did the "Sunday River Shuffle".
Shuffle #1 - I say "Boys at the top of Barker we can hit Lazy River over to the Spruce Triple and drop into Aurora from there". Get to the top, Whoops - snowmaking on Lazy River trail closed. We go down a very icy Right Stuff and down to South Branch. Not a good start.
Shuffle #2 - I say "Boys lets go up the Chondola we will go down Dreammaker and drop into Aurora from there. Wrong again nothing open left over there. North peak Quad is not running so we have to go down to South Ridge again. Dreammaker is a nice run however.
Shuffle #3 - I say "Boys I have figured it out now. Up the Sunday River Express, over to the Spruce Triple and then from the top of Spruce we can drop into Aurora on Sirus and Aludra." "Yeah Right Dad!" they say. Can't blame them. We make it to the top of the Spuce Triple, down Aludra and then fail to realize we need to traverse up a bit to get into Northern Lights. Instead we take a right on Lights Out and we are back on North Peak again. GROOAN. Nice run down Escapade though. Lots of soft snow on skiers right.
Shuffle #4 - We finally do it correctly up Spuce and traverse over to Northern Lights. We were greeted by very light crowds and excellent conditions on Northen Lights and Lallapalooza. Apparently everyone else was trying to figure out how to get over there too.
By that time it was practically lunch however. :beer:Overall a very good day. The middle of the trails got scrapped off by midday as usual but there was all kinds of soft snow on the trial edges. We had a blast. Lower T2 was exceptionally fluffy on the sides. They opened up Lazy River midday and it had huge snowmaking whales which made a usually rolling trail extremely rolly but it was very fun. We tried the last Tango glade but once you got outside of the snowmaking range of Lazy River it was pretty thin.
So besides our morning run-around, we still had a really good day. Sunday River is the king of blowing early-season stink for sure.
We just don't ski Sunday River enough to know the lay of the land enough when not everything is open. Couple of pics.Looking up Risky Business
Looking down Lollapalooza
