riverc0il
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i only got two runs plus a traverse from the metro quad, so i do not consider my brief report to be a complete and comprehensive review of mountain conditions by any means. but we were able to make a quick assessment of the situation rather quickly given the setup.
metup with nhski for day two of the weekend and as i predicted in my report yesterday, powder was long gone replaced with packed powder generally. what i had not predicted was the wind buff both in and out of the trees would be so substantial that a poor setup would have many folks who did not ski saturday wondering if there was any powder this weekend. open slopes and groomers were crappy hard packed loose granular surfaces which left much to be desired.
on our first run, i actually made a few nice turns down the goat before running into scraped and icy conditions a the S turn under the freezer which is always a suspect spot on the mountain. we continued down green mountain boys which also had nasty loose gran and hoped into north glade. i was hoping that having the freezer and tram off line for half the day yesterday meant better conditions in tram side glades than stateside glades which took the full brunt of 8 hours of traffic. unfortunately, the wind buff even terrorized the woods and north glade was no exception with variable wind buffed snow and general thin cover, yum. a work out for the first run of the day to say the least (especially considering i was already hurting from saturday). the snow was better lower down on north glade but not worth a repeat. with the freezer off line despite NO WIND and a blue bird day !!! (what's up with that?) the tram had a two car wait and looked like they were taking their time between runs. we jumped on the metro quad figuring the more wind protected areas off the jet would be the place to be today.
sure enough, great snow still in timbuktu. fine packed pow despite some thin cover. after a few turns in timmy, i took a fall that i had no business taking. i looked incredulously at the thin cover snow pack when i should have been looking incredulously at my skis that went "instant tele" AT style even though they were regular alpine bindings. i didn't notice the break yet, so i continued down at full tilt before going over the handle bars again. at this point, nhski suggested lining up for some pictures, but i decided it was wasted effort since i wasn't in good form. another few turns and WAM i had that distinct instant tele feeling and i knew something was wrong. i slid down sideways and sure enough the core had split open under my boots. "i'm done" i told nhski and we made a safe traverse out of the woods onto derrick which had fantastic soft packed powder. i was able to make some damn fine turns down derrick considering i had a busted ski under foot, almost going over the handle bars only once lower down on derrick where the snow was more diced up.
it would have been a fantastic blue bird day to lap the jet. c'est dommage.
some pictures from this morning including nhski in action on timbuktu.
metup with nhski for day two of the weekend and as i predicted in my report yesterday, powder was long gone replaced with packed powder generally. what i had not predicted was the wind buff both in and out of the trees would be so substantial that a poor setup would have many folks who did not ski saturday wondering if there was any powder this weekend. open slopes and groomers were crappy hard packed loose granular surfaces which left much to be desired.
on our first run, i actually made a few nice turns down the goat before running into scraped and icy conditions a the S turn under the freezer which is always a suspect spot on the mountain. we continued down green mountain boys which also had nasty loose gran and hoped into north glade. i was hoping that having the freezer and tram off line for half the day yesterday meant better conditions in tram side glades than stateside glades which took the full brunt of 8 hours of traffic. unfortunately, the wind buff even terrorized the woods and north glade was no exception with variable wind buffed snow and general thin cover, yum. a work out for the first run of the day to say the least (especially considering i was already hurting from saturday). the snow was better lower down on north glade but not worth a repeat. with the freezer off line despite NO WIND and a blue bird day !!! (what's up with that?) the tram had a two car wait and looked like they were taking their time between runs. we jumped on the metro quad figuring the more wind protected areas off the jet would be the place to be today.
sure enough, great snow still in timbuktu. fine packed pow despite some thin cover. after a few turns in timmy, i took a fall that i had no business taking. i looked incredulously at the thin cover snow pack when i should have been looking incredulously at my skis that went "instant tele" AT style even though they were regular alpine bindings. i didn't notice the break yet, so i continued down at full tilt before going over the handle bars again. at this point, nhski suggested lining up for some pictures, but i decided it was wasted effort since i wasn't in good form. another few turns and WAM i had that distinct instant tele feeling and i knew something was wrong. i slid down sideways and sure enough the core had split open under my boots. "i'm done" i told nhski and we made a safe traverse out of the woods onto derrick which had fantastic soft packed powder. i was able to make some damn fine turns down derrick considering i had a busted ski under foot, almost going over the handle bars only once lower down on derrick where the snow was more diced up.
it would have been a fantastic blue bird day to lap the jet. c'est dommage.
some pictures from this morning including nhski in action on timbuktu.
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