This Just In: CASTLEROCK IS OPEN!!!!

[thetrailboss]

Source: http://www.sugarbush.com/snow-trails-conditions/live-lift-status

Looks like it will be open tomorrow!!

:beer:

 

[powbmps]

Was it open today?

Anyone going to be there tomorrow?

I've got to go somewhere. Pissed I missed Killington today.

 

[JD]

That's too bad...I was hoping to ski it before it got all bumped up....c'est la vie, there's always next year.

 

[reefer]

I'm with you powbumps. Sitting on these vacation days. Will jump on Wednesday or Thursday depending on the weather. Can't pull off tomorrow at this point. Keith.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Oh baby!!!!When is the next AZ trip to the bush?

 

[atkinson]

This was Heaven's Gate today.

Anybody feeling a little powder flu? Cough, cough.

John

 

[powbmps]

Does anyone know if Warren Mountain Road/Roxbury Mountain Road is open in the winter?

Google maps shows that as the quickest route from 89, but I don't trust it. I thought you had to go up 100.

 

[powbmps]

Powder flu? I feel like I'm going to stroke out if I keep seeing these pictures!

 

[JD]

Does anyone know if Warren Mountain Road/Roxbury Mountain Road is open in the winter?

Google maps shows that as the quickest route from 89, but I don't trust it. I thought you had to go up 100.

That's my commute. Open all winter. Randolph exit, 12A north....

 

[mattlucas]

Does anyone know if Warren Mountain Road/Roxbury Mountain Road is open in the winter?

Google maps shows that as the quickest route from 89, but I don't trust it. I thought you had to go up 100.

personally, i would avoid it if at night and you've never driven it. it's only a couple minutes faster than 89 to 100 but way slower if you get lost.....

p.s. you will get lost.

 

[Big Game]

Does anyone know if Warren Mountain Road/Roxbury Mountain Road is open in the winter?

Google maps shows that as the quickest route from 89, but I don't trust it. I thought you had to go up 100.

Take it, but be sure you have a map with you. The left off of 12A kind of sneaks up. Take it easy heading down. If visibility poor may want to go 100.

If you have a GPS turn it off. You don't want to cheat.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

personally, i would avoid it if at night and you've never driven it. it's only a couple minutes faster than 89 to 100 but way slower if you get lost.....

p.s. you will get lost.

+1 People miss the turn in Roxbury Village and when they get over the gap they don't know which way to turn at the intersection of RGR and the E Warren Rd. If your a risk taker, go for it...if your into better safe than sorry then keep going north on I89 and get off the Middlesex exit then south on 100B.

Back to Castlerock is open........ :lol:

 

[atkinson]

My morning off with Dr. Hannah was filled with unbumped Castlerock fun. We tagged Rumble, Upper CR, Liftline, and Middle Earth, before I descended to the cave.

Many of the usual suspects were out, but the turns just seemed to keep getting better. The Jaws on ME was as filled in and smooth as I've ever seen it at this time of year. The top of Liftline was little bony, but once over the first pitch, it was clean and buttery. Rumble still has some teeth, but I know most of them and avoided any bites.

Looks like the weather roller-coaster may throw us some funk, then it's back to snow pretty quickly. More info as it happens.

Get out and ride!

John

 

[bvibert]

This was Heaven's Gate today.

Anybody feeling a little powder flu? Cough, cough.

John

Dammit! Now how am I supposed to get any work done!!! :angry:


Sweet pics!

 

[Greg]

A flat Castlerock is like a flat MRG to me. Just not the same. I'll wait a few weeks and let the human groomers do their thing.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

A flat Castlerock is like a flat MRG to me. Just not the same. I'll wait a few weeks and let the human groomers do their thing.

LOL..I'm the opposite..I love skiing trails that are normally bumped up when they are smooth..making GS turns down a run that is normally all moguls in MSY!!!

 

[JD]

A flat Castlerock is like a flat MRG to me. Just not the same. I'll wait a few weeks and let the human groomers do their thing.

we are so very diffrent......and I think we are both equally happy about it.

 

[atkinson]

Flat MRG is awesome too, Chute to Liftline or Paradise to Canyon are among the finest runs anywhere.

I love bump skiing, but the flow and float of smooth powder puts everything else to shame. Here's to 3D skiing and riding!

Middle Earth. Not today, although Tolkien's trail was really really good today too.

John

p.s.

Ripcord, 12/08/08.

p.p.s. Happy 50th! Free cake to celebrate Egan's and Sugarbush's birthday on Saturday 12/13 at 3:30 in the Valley House, original downstairs home of the Wunderbar for true retro ambience. Plus, Steve Myers and I put together a moving pictures presentation in honor of the man and the mountain, which will commence as soon as the cake is served. Please come!

 

[Greg]

we are so very diffrent......and I think we are both equally happy about it.

Most definitely. But I'd still rather be me. :razz: When I comment that I would prefer a bumped up CR over one with flat deep powder, it's kinda done tongue-in-cheek. I would happily score that powder. However, while you look at a tracked out mountain as a disappointment, I see the potential for ripping rad powder bumps.

I win.

 

[JD]

As you said yourself. You ski bumps because you live in southern NE and that's all you got.
I don't even keep score.
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