Where should you go Tomopow?

Lower VT And NH were blessed with the latest and greatest, Stratton seems to be the winner with 10" New. I recommend checking out Southern VT this weekend! Spring Skiing next weekend?

24 hour Snow Change Image, Blue = new, Yellow = old.

I try to provide unbiased trip report's to the mountains which I go to. Conditions are always reported in the mountains best interest and they will never tell you that conditions are poor.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Loon



Another nice spring day to get in some last runs of the year. I guess that makes 24 days on the slopes for me this year, with all the snow and looking back at some of the pictures and the 12 mountains I got to see -- It was a good one!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Jay Peak



A fantastic day up at Jay Peak, the ride up was great -- the conditions were 70+ degrees, springy, with excellent coverage on all trails. Saw some of the pond skimming event, the whole day was great! Wish some more friends could have come along, but most of them put away their gear in March... Too bad.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Loon

Today, the weatherman said it was to be a rainy, wet, mushy spring day... I was hesitant to day trip it, but knew the days left this season were numbered and got out there...

Instead the sun broke, and we had ourselves a fantastic sunny spring day!

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Sunday River, Bust & Burn

Good spring days, fog was heavy on Saturday morning -- there was an inch or two of new slush on the trails. We made our way from Whitecap over to Oz/Jordan, and back. Sun came out in the afternoon!

Sunday was a bit quieter, later start.. Didn't make our way across the mountain, but enjoyed a few runs around Whitecap, Locke, and Barker. Can't end the season on this note, more snow, more sun please!

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Ascutney







Monday, March 17, 2008

Sugarbush - Mt Ellen

St Patty's special, 17$ on the 17th on Mt Ellen at Sugarbush.

Great bluebird day, 3" of fluffy light pow on top of fantastic carvable base... Black Diamond, the straight down bump run was the most challenging of the day, upper F.I.S. and some of the glades around the not-so-tough woods were fun too.




Look forward to seeing Mt Lincoln next time I'm back.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Pico

Rocked Tele's (K2 World Piste's) for most of the day.. Got some turns in at Pico and Killington, conditions were great, lines non-existant.

Some end of day turns back on the snowboard of Pico's outback were some of the best of the day.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Killington

Sat at Killington, 4 inches of new snow... mostly wet snow, made for a slow pow day... Glades were nice, Devil's Den was the most challenging run of the day, but the unmarked tree trail next to Skyeburst was also fantastic.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Loon

My first full day on Tele's, and it was a good one. Back to green + blue trails for me. We made our way over to South mountain late morning, and checked out the 'new trails'. Crusier was in good shape. The whole mountain was in great shape, with everything open. The light powder got pushed and blown around, so there were spots of the black trails that were down to hard-pack-freeze, but the blue + green terrain was completely covered. I really enjoyed Picked Rock and Seven Brothers, didn't make it over to my old favorite Walking Boss, but I'm sure lower Boss was great.



There was so much snow outside, I was so excited with anticipation for the day ahead, that I put on my boots & ski's a bit early..

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Okemo



With 10-12" of new fluffy light, it was time to take a mid-week vacation day and head up north. We did every double-black and un-groomed run on the map, and had a great pow day! They were about 110% open (128/117 trails).

Fav: Loose Spruce

Top Pics:
Stump Jumper, Forrest Bump, Double Diamond, Outrage, Peteys powerline
Black Hole, Big Bang, SuperNova, Limelight bonus tracks, Sel's Black Out forest

Yeah, the 'bad' runs of the day were perfect condition cruising groomers.... oh, I guess that Catwalk where you had to traverse the flat falls into that category.


Most of the storm was over by Wednesday morning, and Wednesday must have been a killer powder day for anyone lucky enough to be up there for it. I headed up Wednesday night after the storm had passed, dealing with just the occasional flurries and snow clouds along the way up. I was hoping there would still be plenty of freshies along the trails and in the woods (there was!).

Woke up around 7, and we had fresh cord tracks down from the house to the base station. We enjoyed a quick breakfast, and got out in line for first(4th) chair, we waited a few minutes in anticipation... it was cold.

Our goal was to make our way towards the South Face, we flew down a meticulously groomed Defiance run and by the time we were over there we once again were in a first(1st) chair and wait for them to open the lift situation... We spent most of the morning over on this side of the mountain, enjoyed every glade, bump, and ungroomed run we could find... A few off the map secrets really made our day, and challenged our technical abilities.



For the afternoon we made our way across the main face, and to the other side of the hill. There were some wind-exposed faces, which didn't hold the fluffy light powder well, but still -- 9 out of 10 kind of day. We continued to find the best 'trails' on the hill, and found ourselves making deep turns all day long. When tired or ready for a change, there was always the option of a perfect groomer run around --

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Mount Snow

We were hoping that some of the storm would track a bit north and get over into southern vt for some nice fresh turns.. I'd say about 4-5" fell, and looked to be around 6" in some untouched places in the woods. North Face and Sunbrook were good, and with the mountain 100% open there was little to complain about. The trails just were not as challenging and steep as I would have liked, but if you are into Blue trails or need a nice warm up hill -- I still recommend Mount Snow.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Wachusett

Fridays storm looked like it was tracking for a direct and heavy hit on MA, so that left us with the obvious choice of hitting Wachusett for some night pow riding under the lights.

Being school vacation week, crowds were pretty minimal. Parents must have kept their kids at home too, knowing the roads were not ideal.. Bram's truckasaurus land cruiser made its way to the hill no prob, and we left as the snow was winding down.. Each run of the night got better, as more people left and more snow fell...

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Sunday River



After a snowy week, we had to get up to enjoy what mother nature had brought. Bob, Max and I headed up to Sunday River. We decided to head over to Aurora / Oz / Jordan and stayed over there the whole day. After warming up on Escapade, we headed down Quantum Leap and headed up Aurura. The Oz lift wasn't running, so we enjoyed the trails off Oz from the Jordan lift. Tin Woodsman, Emerald City, Flying Monkey were great. We found the lost woods of Blind Ambition, Wizards Gulch, and upper wizards spell after some steep turns on Caramba. Black hole & Vortex were also both a lot of fun, while Rogue Angel and Excalibur made for some fast cruising runs. Today was a page out of the perfect book, and looks like Sunday may be another one.



0708: 12

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Cannon pre-superbowl

Half-priced tix at Cannon made for a cheap day on the slopes.

day started off good and glad I got there early. Bit more crowded than Superbowl Sundays of years past... I started on the Peabody side, warmed up with some of the ones I knew would get icy later. Got to the front five pretty early. Skylight off the top was my fav trail of the day.

It was a 'naturally' fast day, with turning an option only at times... but there was little or no wind which is very unlike the Old Man's mountain.

0708: 11

Monday, January 21, 2008

Ascutney

From last mondays snow, and fridays snowstorm we had planned on going far north into Maine to check out Saddleback and Sugarloaf. Both received a fair amount of snow, and were far enough north to hopefully miss some of the traditional MLK weekend crowds.

Last minute, we changed our plans to a day trip. We decided to go close, where some decent snow had fallen but not a slope that was very well known... We took our chances on Ascutney.

Unfortunately, after buying our tickets we realized that only the lower half of the mountain was 'open' / lift serviceable. We got in all the runs we could on the fast packed powder conditions, lines were minimal which was nice. Melissa was flying on her new K2s. My favorite trail of the day was Exhibition, a fast straight down shot with some good gnolls for catching some high-speed air. I found some stale 'freshies' on the side, but the course of the week made a layer of crust near the top... I decided even with this layer of icy melt-freeze to go off and do some crud-busting.. I hiked over to Moments Rest and Terminator, and blasted my way through the crusty pow, cover was good, but I could see how if they opened it to the public it could have shown some rocks after some runs...

We were expecting a lot more for our day, but we still made the best of it. My general rule of thumb is to come back here when one of the double-blacks and top is opened up, hopefully after the next big snow. Powder days at this hill really do make it, but isn't that the case everywhere?

0708: 10

Monday, January 14, 2008

Wachusett Afternoon & Evening

With a foot of new snow(and work cancelled for the day!), an afternoon at Wachusett for 36$ was pretty good. Snow wasn't too heavy, but got bumped up pretty good, making some small manageable bumps pretty fun to carve around and jump off of.
At 4:00, we decided to upgrade our ticket to allow us to go all night too, it cost us an additional 10$ -- but after the sight of the first 4:00 groom-cat, it was clearly worth it. They groomed each run one at a time, but if you were lucky to head down it shortly after they opened the trail -- there was nice corduroy everywhere..... Fun eve at the local hill where I started to snowboard, so many years ago --

0708: 09

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Killington New Year

Usually I try to avoid holiday weeks, weekends, and Killington. The last minute invite to come up and enjoy the new year, with 6-12" in the forcast was too good to pass up though. We shot up on the eve of new years eve, and enjoyed a powdery Monday at Killington. The top layer of new snow got pushed off pretty early, showing that ugly new england ice layer underneath.... But with so much terrain/lifts going, lift lines were minimal and overall the mountain was in pretty good shape. We started the day off over near bear peak, made our way completely over to the opposite side of the mountain and back before 1pm lunch.. Then enjoyed a few last turns before they shut down for the day...

A good day at the K, better than last years -- but still for the 79$ holiday rate, it made it tough to swallow. On new years day we were thinking about going over to Pico for a quieter/cheaper powder experience, but decided to save the cash for another day and try to beat the next wave of snow coming in --

Happy New Year!! 08 slopes are looking fantastic, lets hope it stays cold enough to keep the rain/ice away....

0708: 08

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Ascutney

Looking back, maybe the fact that I've mostly snowboarded/ski'd at more major resorts most of the time has never given me a true appreciation for the family-style resort... Saturday at Ascutney mountain was fantastic, throw in the Warren Miller coupon to make it an almost free day and we had ourselves a great day.

So on Thursday, 8" of snow fell, and on Friday, one or two lucky people must have had the whole mountain to themselves... We showed up early on Saturday, and it seemed like the snow had fallen over-night. We had mostly fresh tracks for a good amount of the day. The 'double-black' diamonds, seemed to scare people away as well as it was the terrain with the most virgin snow still on it... Ascutney is small, just a few lifts... but difficult, craggy terrain features make this mountain a lot of fun if you like to find natural terrain jumps and play around with the trails. It's not your typical over-groomed mountain, so I could see on a day/week without snow the mountain getting tough and not being as nice... but after a bit of natural snow, check this place out --

0708: 7

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Loon

10 fell the day before, and Loon's fantastic groomers came out in full force in the middle of the trails. 4-5 more fell overnight and made for a great monday morning. Melissa and I split up for half the day, I tackled North Peak and some terrain off of the Summits double-chair while she stuck around the west basin and rocked the blues. She ripped upper and lower rumrunner with me though, good to see her on a black diamond this early in the season. Angel Street and Lower Speakeasy were my favourite on the day, too bad they were not open to the season pass holders, if you catch my pow drift...

We will be back at some point to check out South peaks 'new' runs...

0708: 6

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Cannon Nor'Easter

A blustery day at Cannon, made for fresh tracks all day long... Each run was reset by the wind, filling in the gaps with more wind-blown powder... Front five were great early on, but the Zoomer chair closed early due to strong winds... A few off the Eagle triple were great, hardscrable wasn't completely bumped up yet... Skylight was fantastic, and I made a short venture over to mittersill to get into some December tree's...

0708: 5

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Sugarloaf

Almost a week after the storm, without a thaw/freeze.... whats that mean? 16" of fresh got blown around, creating 8-32" drifts of pow. Wow. Only half of the mountain was lift serviceable, but I'd say at least 2/3rds to all of it was 'open'.... If you don't mind hopping over some small streams, the occasional shruberry sticking out of the snow, or a short hike.... this weekend was killer. The Loaf in all it's early season glory. If you prefer to stick to the lifts, you still had a pretty good early december day.

0708: 4

Sunday, December 02, 2007

07-08: Sunday River

Santa Sunday, Monday, and Tues at Sunday River...

Sunday was a great day of man-made + natural groomed conditions... Fast.
Monday was a day in the snowstorm, can't see to far in front of you, but thats ok because there is nobody in front of you.
Tuesday only 8-16" all over the place, with a few new trails openened up for the first time of the year.

0708: 3

Monday, August 13, 2007

07-08

07-08

Next year is going to be tough, with seasons pass prices getting really expensive...
Look for the deals again and get the variety? or take the plunge and go to the same mountains all season long...

Northwest territory - BC? WA? WY?

Stratton (Coupons)
Okemo/Sunapee (10$ off coupons)
Jay Peak
Stowe
Sugarbush

Ascutney (Half price coupons)
Cannon (Tues and other 2-1 deals, half-price coupons)
Wildcat (Birthdays free, 10$ off coupons, 20$ Sunday afternoons)

Sugarloaf (Can drive, warren miller)
Saddleback (Cheaper than Sat at Loaf)
Sunday River (Santa Sunday, WM coupons, Bust'n burn)

Mobil Ski-3? Bestskiweather.com coupons/discounts?

Monday, April 16, 2007

Day 26 - Bretton Woods

Mid April, and the hills are looking like mid-february. Sunday it started snowing again in NH, and by the end of the day at Bretton Woods there was 3-5 more inches on top of their already strong base... For their last day of operations, they didn't have all the lifts running and we were a bit disappointed but got in as many runs as we could --

We were hoping to get a few feet of snow over at Wildcat and head over there, but the snow turned over to mixed/rain at lower elevations, and wind-holds prevented Wildcat from even opening up today...

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Day 24&25: SR & Loon

Sunday River re-opened the Jordan/Aurora areas on Friday for some ungroomed fun, early on there was a layer of melt-freeze crust on top, but with still plenty of untracked snow it was a 'powder' day in the books... I felt like I was cutting through the crud with my board no prob, just keeping my front tip above the snow with some speed... It was one of those days where you could go fast over a gnoll, and land and not worry about hitting yourself on the ice.. the snow was pretty soft mid-day, although by the end of the day started to freeze over again and one trail we went down over on whitecap was pure garbage.. A great day, seemed more like February than April, but can't complain!

Sat we decided to go for a groomer day over at Loon, trails were pretty empty and we got in almost all of our favorite runs before calling it a day. Loons a good mtn, I've just done it so many times before its hard to be really excited unless we try something new... Looking forward to my next trip down the south-side of loon -- looks like they cut a trail a bit more for their expansion, if only there was a healthy fresh dumping of snow on top --

Saturday, March 31, 2007

06-07: Day 23 Sunday River - Bust 'n' Burn

Another great spring day over at Sunday River!

2nd year in a row, I guess it's now tradition to have a day of Maine spring skiing on the slopes!! This year I found some cheap tickets on craigslist, worked out pretty well. Next year we will get a place for crashing on Saturday night...

Sunday, March 18, 2007

06-07: Day 21 & 22 VT

We wanted to head up to VT on Friday eve, but the snowstorm came in mid-day Friday and roads would have been too treacherous to head up north.. We opted to wait until the bad driving was behind us, and instead of heading up Sat morning we held off until Sunday morning. We made our way up to Pico, that small mountain next to Killington...
It had snowed about 8 inches by the time we arrived, and snowed all day while we were there... The snow was the lightest, fluffiest snow I've ever seen in VT....
There was a local ski shop offering free Telemark equipment demo's, so I figured it was a good day to give it a try! It was fun, but by lunchtime I was ready to trade in the boots for the comfort of my own snowboarding boots... We ended the afternoon exploring the rest of the mountain.. A great place to head when you want to avoid the Killington crowds --

Melissa convinced me to head over to Okemo for monday, another mountain which I had never been too... A lot of nicely groomed runs, even the black diamonds were often groomed and conditions pretty consistently great across the whole mountain... A fun day of cruising, and pretty much the trails to ourselves!

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

06-07: Day 20 Cannon Mountain

06-07: Day 20 Cannon Mountain

Melissa and I headed up to Cannon, we found some of the best snow on the mountain over in the Tuckerbrook area.. The sides of the trails and woods held some powder, while the trails were great for carving some turns.. The top of the mountain was pretty windy, and by the end of the day some of the upper slopes got a bit ski'd off..

Sunday, February 25, 2007

06-07: Day 19 Attitash-Bear Peak

We headed up to North Conway saturday eve, enjoyed a nice turkey dinner at Robs house with some of his family.

We then headed over to Attitash/Bear Peak for Sunday, we used a 2-for-1 coupon we found at our Inn and enjoyed a nice spring-like blue-sky day on the slopes. The conditions started off groomed on top with hardpack underneath.. Got a bit slick in the afternoon, but the trails that got hit by the sun softened up some. It was another fast day at Attitash for me.. Melissa is starting to look pretty good on ski's, and Bram may be ski'ng for the rest of the season..

Friday, February 16, 2007

06-07: Days 17-18 Loon/Cannon

Half-price midweek tickets at Loon on Weds, and Cannon on Thurs...

Valentines day blizzard on weds made for a cold day on the slopes of loon. Woke up to 6 inches on the ground, and about 6 more fell by the time we took the last chair up...
The roads got a bit sloppy, but it was a good day on the slopes with the mountain pretty empty.

Cannon mountain the next day, with 26" of fresh was fantastic. Rode the Zoomer lift in the morning, and the Tram/Chair to the summit mid-day. In the afternoon, made the way over to Mittersill and worked on some tough tight turns through the tree's....



Great couple of days!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

06-07: Days 11-16 Colorado Trip

Saturday - Took it easy, Andy and Eileen got in a few afternoon runs at Breck
Sunday - Breckenridge!
Monday - Vail!!
Tuesday - Keystone
Wednesday - Vail
Thursday - Relaxing and Rest
Friday - Beaver Creek
Saturday - A-Basin!





Some video clips on YouTube!

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

06-07 : Day 10 - Sugarloaf

What amount of snow makes the 4+ hour trek up to Sugarloaf Maine worth it?
Well in January on this fine tuesday that would be a foot of snow..
Great day, found some stashes of light, cold, powda.. Most of the mountain was 'open', although you wouldn't expect many of these trails to normally be open with lots of growth, stumps and rocks that you would avoid if you saw them --

Experts only, the Loaf.

0607: 10

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

06-07 : Day 9 - Sunday River

Bram and I headed over to Sunday River, not a bad day with a few trails off of Aurora probably being the best ones of the day... Looking forward to Jordan area opening up before my next visit here in February or March..

0607: 9

Sunday, January 07, 2007

06-07 : Day 8 - Loon

Spring skiing in January, with no base...

I decided to rent ski's instead of possibly hitting some rocks on my board... A lift ticket + rental + lesson at Loon was the same price as ticket + rental.. So I went for it.

Good day on ski's, worked some different muscles in hopes of getting myself in shape for Colorado in a few weeks!

0607: 8

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

06-07 : Day 7 - Mt. Snow

My brother Dan and I decided to day trip it over to Mount Snow to try out his new ski's and boots... Generally Mount Snow is a great 'warmup' mountain for me, with aprrox 75% blue terrain, it makes for a lot of nice fast cruisers... Mostly man-made base, but a few inches on Monday and Tuesday along with some man-made snow made for some nice turns in the snow... The trails were very crowded, but they had enough lifts going that the lines were not too bad...

Friday, December 22, 2006

06-07 : Day 6 - Killington

Spent the day up at Killington... Trails had a good amount of man-made snow on them, and many of the lifts were running. Although the rest of the mountain where they had not made snow was pretty much dry and green. I have never seen the surrounding area like that before, from the top of the mountain you could see a green golf course below. A strange scene for late December in the Killington area...

Melissa broke her wrist just as she was getting the hang of linking her S turns :(
The medical facility here was fantatastic, basically better than most doctors offices I've seen anywhere... They did x-rays, and set the break right on-mountain, we didn't have to stop by the hospital on the way home... instead we took a drive and sought the comfort of the Woodstock Station.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

06-07 : Day 4&5 Back to Cannon!

Cannon received only 8-14".... one more time, 8-14" wow... Other NH area's were not so lucky... With only a few trails open though, it didn't take long to follow one of Cannon's best motto's... Hike for powder.

With this much early snow, you take some chances at scratching up your board.. is it worth it? Definately... I can't believe how nice fresh tracks on some of Cannons slopes were.... wind drifts much deeper than 14" made for some great sections of the runs -- light and fluffy goodness...

Sunday, I spent some more time with Melissa on Brookside (Cannon offers Free tickets to this beginner trail all year long!!) After we started to link some S turns we decided to go for a short hike over in the Tuckerbrook beginner area that had not yet opened... Melissa got her first experience with some fresh tracks as we hiked up and floated down Bear Paw a few times before calling it a day...

We will definately be back soon --

0607: 5

Sunday, December 03, 2006

06-07 : Day 2&3 Santa Sunday

Sunday River has an annual event for charity.. Donate to a local food bank, put on your Santa outfit, and get a few free days on the slopes!

Melissa and I put on our suits and enjoyed some of the first turns of the year. They had a few trails open off of Barker and Locke Mountain.. Mostly man-made snow, and ski'ers had turned the hill into a mogul challenge...

Good first day for me -- Melissa learned about the challenges of moguls a bit more painfully... The opened up T2 as well, which was fantastic to get out onto a Black Diamond...

0607: 3

Sunday, November 26, 2006

06-07 : Day 1 Cannon Mountain

We hoped that Loon Mountain may have been open by now, but it wasn't.. It looked like a trip over to Sunday River or Killington may have been our only options for getting onto some snow...

We decided to head over to Cannon, and maybe do a bit of hiking... Well, when we got there we saw that there was a patch of man-made snow on a beginner trail and decided to give it a few runs... Good times :) The whole trail/mountain to ourselves :)

0607: 1

Friday, October 27, 2006

07 NorthEast

Without a seasons pass this year, I'm going where the snow and deals take me....

Here's a tentative calendar for me, but will change if I can find better deals or snow lands elsewhere --

Dec


Jan


Feb
Cannon Mountain - Superbowl Sunday, Tuesdays and Thursdays.. (2 for 54$ )

March

Non-Holiday Deals
Mobile Ski 3 (15$ off AMC mountains)

Mount Snow
Newbie Lesson and rental, 89$ - Friend ski's free..

Jay Peak
Bring a Newbie (Free pass for non-newbie, newbie gets free season pass after 3 days!)

WildCat
2-1 Weds, 20$ Sunday Afternoon's, Free on your Birthday!, Add a day for 25$

Cranmore
Add a day for 29$

Warren Miller Show (Free weekday pass to Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and 2-1 Killington)

07 Colorado - Jan 20-28th

Arapahoe Basin, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Vail
(373$)

We'll get to go to each of these mountains, and go back to two of our favorites...
7 out of 8 days on the slopes!!!
Looking forward to it :)




New snow depth:

Thursday, May 11, 2006

06-07

What's on tap for next year?

Oct/Nov - Trips to where it snows?

Colorado - Mid/Late January...
Probably staying in Frisco and going to Copper, A-basin, Keystone, Breck, Vail..

Feb/March -

Jay Peak!!!
Okemo!
Sugarloaf!!

Killington/Pico!
Stowe!!
Mt Snow!!
Sunday River!
Sugarbush?
Attitash?
Loon? Cannon? Wildcat? Cranmore?

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Sugarloaf gets nailed


EPIC

14" of pow

0506DayCount: 28

Late season, when everyone else is getting spring rain, not Sugarloaf.
words or pictures just don't do this day justice...
best day of the season out east...

my last day on the slopes, fantastic way to end it...

R.O.C.O.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Sunday River - Bust 'n' Burn

Horvitz was competing in the Bust'n'Burn mogul challenge, while Bram and I got some of our last Sunday River run's in... Nice spring day, mostly clear but rained for a bit.. Snow was slushy and good for carving, nobody was on the hill being this late in the season... but it was a saturday and I was surprised... Sunday River has a ton of little rolling bumps in the trails, perfect for hitting jumps off of.. I pretty much tried to get every one of them until my legs were completely dead.. We started the day at Whitecap on the far left, worked our way across the whole mountain to Jordan Bowl area where we stopped for a beverage and to enjoy the sun... Then we ventured our way back across the mountain..

Great day! could be one of the last ones, unless a surprise snowstorm brings some and temperatures get a bit colder --

0506DayCount: 27

Saturday, March 25, 2006

mt baker

After attending a conference in Seattle, I had a day on Saturday to enjoy the west... I met up with Francis and we hit Mount Baker, home of the world record snowfall
(1140" in 98-99)

A fantastic day!!




0506DayCount: 26

Friday, March 10, 2006

Sugarloaf 3/10- 3/12

We got up to Sugarloaf thurs night during the snow,
roads were horrible... (4-6" total fell during the drive up)...

Friday was nice, although thick fog made visibility low
and the snow was very sticky and slow....
Sat wasn't too good, iced over, wind closed most lifts,
and lines were off the hook...
We spent half the day at the Widowmaker though,
and made the most of this day...
Sunday was sweet.. warmed up, and there was plenty of
snow for some good carving...

[View Snapfish Album]



Approx 3/4 miles from the Carrabassett Inn

0506DayCount: 25

Friday, February 24, 2006

Utah Powder 2/24 -> 3/1

Park City, Utah
parkcity2006.blogspot.com

Nice One!!!

0506DayCount: 22

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Sugarloaf Trip 2 - Super Bowl weekend

Dates: 2/2 -> 2/6
Website: www.sugarloaf.com
Attendees:
Tara & Mike
Nancy & Chris
Jeremy & Colleen
Bram & Sara
Corey C
Fisher & Heather

A few of us headed up on Thurs night, to enjoy Friday's snowstorm.. The morning started off great, with a few inches already on the ground and a few more by lunchtime.. Tough on the legs though, as the snow was a bit wet and over the course of the day transitioned from snow, to sleet, to rain... A great day on the slopes though...

Saturday we got a late start, but that gave the hill some time to warm up and soften up the snow.. We enjoyed some good turns most of the day.. and a great day to be on the hill...

[Jertronic at the summit]


Sunday it ended up raining instead of snowing, and we decided to call it a weekend and head home early... We still had a blast, and look forward to coming up again in March!!!

0506DayCount: 17