Sharon
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well, the warm temps made for some really nice spring-like skiing
snow was corned up, perfectly carveable, most trails skiing like butter. Just so effortless to lay an edge.
I started out on tele's, but I was just not feeling chipper with my heel free. My mind was not free. I kept thinking about locking my heel and skiing for real. I wanted to be master of the mountain, so after 2 aching runs I swapped to the alpine rig.
I had been xc skiing the day prior at Connecticut Hill State Forest and I think I wore-out the nordic muscles.
Once in alpine mode, I met up with Pam and we tore up the whole mountain. Everything was so soft and skiable. All the glades skied quite well. It seems they cleared out some trees in Alsops near chair 5 and a whole bunch of trees had been cut but not yet cleared to skier's right of Mars Hill. That could be a very nice glade when they take all that wood out. I don't know if that is the plan, but I am hopeful. There is still so much unutilized terrain within those boundaries. Much of it is impassable due to treefall. They cut a whole bunch of trees, but they are just laying there.
Zeus was a little rough, thin in spots and because it had not been skied much there were some clumps of wet snow. But it was a fun challenge.
The best trail of the day was Olympian. It skied so nicely, small bumps, the most pitch you'll find there, natural snow. We skied it 3 times.
We hit the woods to the right of Eleysian Fields and it skied as nicely as everything else. Aesop's glade is always nice because there is so much real estate in there.
Twas a fun day with my ski-sister. We are getting very psyched for our trip to the Promised Land which is less than a month away.
BTW, we skied right to every lift we rode today. People think that because it is warm, there is no skiing. it takes a longer period of warm weather to really affect the base. We skied mostly trails and glades that are exclusively natural snow. I think they will last another few days like this, as long as it doesn't rain a lot.
snow was corned up, perfectly carveable, most trails skiing like butter. Just so effortless to lay an edge.
I started out on tele's, but I was just not feeling chipper with my heel free. My mind was not free. I kept thinking about locking my heel and skiing for real. I wanted to be master of the mountain, so after 2 aching runs I swapped to the alpine rig.
I had been xc skiing the day prior at Connecticut Hill State Forest and I think I wore-out the nordic muscles.
Once in alpine mode, I met up with Pam and we tore up the whole mountain. Everything was so soft and skiable. All the glades skied quite well. It seems they cleared out some trees in Alsops near chair 5 and a whole bunch of trees had been cut but not yet cleared to skier's right of Mars Hill. That could be a very nice glade when they take all that wood out. I don't know if that is the plan, but I am hopeful. There is still so much unutilized terrain within those boundaries. Much of it is impassable due to treefall. They cut a whole bunch of trees, but they are just laying there.
Zeus was a little rough, thin in spots and because it had not been skied much there were some clumps of wet snow. But it was a fun challenge.
The best trail of the day was Olympian. It skied so nicely, small bumps, the most pitch you'll find there, natural snow. We skied it 3 times.
We hit the woods to the right of Eleysian Fields and it skied as nicely as everything else. Aesop's glade is always nice because there is so much real estate in there.
Twas a fun day with my ski-sister. We are getting very psyched for our trip to the Promised Land which is less than a month away.
BTW, we skied right to every lift we rode today. People think that because it is warm, there is no skiing. it takes a longer period of warm weather to really affect the base. We skied mostly trails and glades that are exclusively natural snow. I think they will last another few days like this, as long as it doesn't rain a lot.
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