Where should you go Tomopow?

Great comfortable temperatures for skiing this week, not much new snow to speak of but with base amounts still pretty strong, most mountains should have pretty good coverage and trail counts are still high.

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, 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 --

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