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Sun and fun at the Big K today. I pulled into a 3/4 full Bear Mountain parking lot at around 10. I was purposely late to let the sun soften things up. I headed straight for Southridge. The sun had softened the moguls nicely. Lower Pipe Dream was a dream. Soft mashed potato moguls just the right...

I hit the Big K today with hopes of fun in the sun. I was not disappointed. I stayed at Southridge the whole day because this was the first time I've ever seen the funky Southridge Triple running. I especially like the double bull wheel turn in the middle. If your not careful it can throw you...

I took a day off of work and skied the Big K today. I stayed mostly on Rams Head to practice tree skiing on Squeeze Play. I'm not that good of a bark muncher so the low angle trees are good practice. It was a surprise powder day. There were lots of fresh lines in the trees. I also tried the Jug...

Magic was the most crowded I've ever seen it. When I got there at 9:30 half of the back lot was full and cars were pouring in. I got my $20 Ct. ski club ticket after waiting in a long ticket line. It was even hard to find a seat in the lodge. Lift lines with both Red and Black chairs running...

I stayed on mostly ungroomed and natural trails. They got 3 inches of freshies overnight and it was snowing lightly most of the day. Visibility was an issue especially up high. The least tracked out stuff was at South Ridge but the chair wasn't open so it was a pain getting to them. The skiers...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I get to Magic at 8:00 for the 20-30 inches of fresh Pow. My first run I got first tracks on Betwixit to Up Your Sleeve and Vertigo. I knew all the other hounds would be heading for the double blacks leaving lots of freshies on the ungroomed...

Powder day at the big K today. The Big K has the goods. Tons of powder and lots of natural trails open. I was on the lift at 8:00 to catch the 9-11" of freshies they got overnight and it was still snowing most of the day. Light and fluffy powder. First I got fresh tracks down Upper Royal Flush...

Quick report. No time to elaborate. <BR>Groomed trials nice. Middle of trails down to blue ice. <BR>Natural trails even nicer depending on exposure. <BR>The ones off the peak (West Glade, Escapade, FIS) were solid blue ice base with a foot of chopped powder mixed with chunks of ice thrown on...

I started on the Snowdon quad in hopes that the natural snow trails like Great Bear and Northstar would be a good place to start. You could tell from the lift that the snow was crispy and hard. So I headed over to the Glades Triple to see how West Glade was. Hard moguls but the sun was starting...

My nephew, his friend, several thousand other people, and myself decided to <BR>ski at Killington on Sunday. The sun was shining and the temps were cold <BR>enough for the guns to run all day. Bittersweet, Lower Chute and Cascade <BR>were getting blasted all day. Cascade was beautiful soft bumps...

I got there about 11:00 and the parking lot was almost full. They had the K1 <BR>to the top and you skied down Great Northern to the glades area. By the time <BR>I got there all of Rime and Lower East Glade were wall to wall bumps. Soft <BR>forgiving bumps that haven't had a chance to ice up...

First time ever at Burke. Got to Mid-Burke about 9:15. Still lots of empty parking lot. The report said 4-5" of snow over night. I had heard good things about East Bowl so I tried that first. It was groomed and I was disappointed. I though they left that trail alone? Nice packed powder though...

As I pulled into the parking lot at 10 and saw way to many cars, I knew it would be pin ball skiing. Booted and up the K1 by 10:30 we skied the Goat Path around to the Glades area. The Path was already pretty icy with all of the traffic. Into the Glades and the guns were spewing everywhere...

Rime and Upper East Glade were the two choices. The cloud line started at the bottom of Rime so it was fog skiing most of the day. It did clear out a little after 1 o'clock. The conditions were pretty good for the second day open. Lower Rime was pretty soft with soft moguls forming in the...

After reading the report for Magic on Sunday, I'm glad I chose Saturday to go. It was blue jay all day with temps in the 40's by noon. In the morning, things were pretty hard. All the ungroomed trails that were mushy the day before froze into solid piles but the sun slowly softened things up...