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I met up with from_the_NEK on Saturday for a powder romp, Jay Peak style. On Tuesday, Jay had only 10 trails open. A few short days later, the trail count suddenly tripled to 30. :shock: Essentially, I think they decided to drop the ropes on trails folks had been poaching during the week and let everyone have at the dust on dirt. It was all good! Amazing what six inches of snow feels like when you have been deprived for weeks. Also amazing what said powder will make people think is skiable
Derick started off really nice, nicer than Tuesday :twisted: but got beat up quickly. That was the theme of the day for natural snow trails. Bumps under Jet finally started to setup a bit but still lots of icy spots. Haynes was a skating rink. Patrol took note and put up fencing along some trees. :shock:
Traverse trails like Taxi were open on natural snow and sporting deep water bars and rocks. Beginners and intermediates were not having fun. Later in the day, patrol roped a particularly bad section of Taxi towards the end of the traverse forcing beginners and intermediates down a disastrously thin Lower Can Am which I didn't even have much tolerance for. It was just a mess.
Off the Summit, Vermonter was our first run and a total disaster. Not sure if it ever got better. Northway was in much better shape from the Summit. Upper Milk Run was also particularly terrible and not worth the effort.
Ehm, so on to the report. Trees were navigational but only with high caution levels and careful line choices. I backed off several lines due to obstacles or being unsure what was hidden under the 6" of fresh. There was a base in there, but nothing substantial and it would just take one rock, stump, or snow snake to trip someone up and send them flying. Where we found lines, the skiing was sensational (relative to the weather we have had this December). A lot of folks were jumping into some questionable tree selections. Knowledge of how things setup and what is doable in low base periods is advisable before just jumping into any open hole on the side of the trail. Things were especially crunchy lower down on the mountain. All and all, a fantastic day with lots of 6" pow lines just over the boot buckles.
Here are some pictures, mostly of from_the_NEK. I should have some crappy digital camera video up later. Didn't bring the Video Cam as I didn't expect things to be so good. If you get a 403 error, please let me know and I will edit the URL with the I.P. address of the new server but I think the DNS propagation should be complete by now.
/ I met up with from_the_NEK on Saturday for a powder romp, Jay Peak style. On Tuesday, Jay had only 10 trails open. A few short days later, the trail count suddenly tripled to 30. :shock: Essentially, I think they decided to drop the ropes on trails folks had been poaching during the week and let everyone have at the dust on dirt. It was all good! Amazing what six inches of snow feels like when you have been deprived for weeks. Also amazing what said powder will make people think is skiable
Derick started off really nice, nicer than Tuesday :twisted: but got beat up quickly. That was the theme of the day for natural snow trails. Bumps under Jet finally started to setup a bit but still lots of icy spots. Haynes was a skating rink. Patrol took note and put up fencing along some trees. :shock:
Traverse trails like Taxi were open on natural snow and sporting deep water bars and rocks. Beginners and intermediates were not having fun. Later in the day, patrol roped a particularly bad section of Taxi towards the end of the traverse forcing beginners and intermediates down a disastrously thin Lower Can Am which I didn't even have much tolerance for. It was just a mess.
Off the Summit, Vermonter was our first run and a total disaster. Not sure if it ever got better. Northway was in much better shape from the Summit. Upper Milk Run was also particularly terrible and not worth the effort.
Ehm, so on to the report. Trees were navigational but only with high caution levels and careful line choices. I backed off several lines due to obstacles or being unsure what was hidden under the 6" of fresh. There was a base in there, but nothing substantial and it would just take one rock, stump, or snow snake to trip someone up and send them flying. Where we found lines, the skiing was sensational (relative to the weather we have had this December). A lot of folks were jumping into some questionable tree selections. Knowledge of how things setup and what is doable in low base periods is advisable before just jumping into any open hole on the side of the trail. Things were especially crunchy lower down on the mountain. All and all, a fantastic day with lots of 6" pow lines just over the boot buckles.
Here are some pictures, mostly of from_the_NEK. I should have some crappy digital camera video up later. Didn't bring the Video Cam as I didn't expect things to be so good. If you get a 403 error, please let me know and I will edit the URL with the I.P. address of the new server but I think the DNS propagation should be complete by now.
