What a great day up at Jay today! It snowed this week and it shows compare to what they had last weekend (euh... yeah... well... there was NOTHING last weekend!).
We got up there and decided to use the chairlift in the morning and try what stateside had to offer... Lots of people on the slopes means it gets skied off pretty quick... We stayed on the Jet which had decent cover and some good snow... Sides were great! Lots of stuff to move around. I went down the Haynes also trying to find some snow... Derreck was skied off by 10AM! After 7 runs, we went for lunch.
After lunch things got interesting cause we decided to earn some powder. We took the Jet and proceded to climb the Northway. It was my first time with the splitboard setup and i really enjoyed it instead of the snowshoes! Skinning is fast and simple... transition time is about 15-20min if you pack everything up good...
We got to the top of the flyer and couldn't believe how much snow there was on the left side of the Ullr's. After climbing the Northway which had almost nothing... we got to Ullr's with about 3-4feet of snow to one side... and bare on the other side... hmmm.... Needless to say we did it twice!
After a run down the Ullrs we took the Metro Quad and climbed some to the top of Green Mountain Boys. Stuff was getting blown off the mountain because it almost looked like summer up there! (ok, maybe not that bad!) We took the Goat and went into the woods of Vertigo... Snow was soft and light... It was a bit above knee deep... but under the pines it was more like 4-6in tops! We sticked with the birch trees! Knee deep was more then plenty!
We did some videos but took very few pictures... In all, it was a great day... Tomorrow we'll be in Sutton... Hope there will be some snow over there...
It felt OH SO GOOD to ride in powder again...
We got up there and decided to use the chairlift in the morning and try what stateside had to offer... Lots of people on the slopes means it gets skied off pretty quick... We stayed on the Jet which had decent cover and some good snow... Sides were great! Lots of stuff to move around. I went down the Haynes also trying to find some snow... Derreck was skied off by 10AM! After 7 runs, we went for lunch.
After lunch things got interesting cause we decided to earn some powder. We took the Jet and proceded to climb the Northway. It was my first time with the splitboard setup and i really enjoyed it instead of the snowshoes! Skinning is fast and simple... transition time is about 15-20min if you pack everything up good...
We got to the top of the flyer and couldn't believe how much snow there was on the left side of the Ullr's. After climbing the Northway which had almost nothing... we got to Ullr's with about 3-4feet of snow to one side... and bare on the other side... hmmm.... Needless to say we did it twice!
After a run down the Ullrs we took the Metro Quad and climbed some to the top of Green Mountain Boys. Stuff was getting blown off the mountain because it almost looked like summer up there! (ok, maybe not that bad!) We took the Goat and went into the woods of Vertigo... Snow was soft and light... It was a bit above knee deep... but under the pines it was more like 4-6in tops! We sticked with the birch trees! Knee deep was more then plenty!
We did some videos but took very few pictures... In all, it was a great day... Tomorrow we'll be in Sutton... Hope there will be some snow over there...
It felt OH SO GOOD to ride in powder again...
