riverc0il
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having one more free pass to blow by the 20th, i hit up K for my third time this season, tieing my combined total of times i've been to K in my life counting this season but not counting today. got it?
i normally crap on kmart pretty bad. i still feel like K deserves it, but after three tries at K during an aweful early season, i've come away with a little more respect for the mountain. having as much open terrain as they do considering the conditions is just nuts. i was expecting less open terrain than they had today, it's pretty impressive. also impressive were the snow guns covering lower supahstar and the canyon area. i'd guess from super through ramshead to be open 100% by next weekend, everything but the trees.
porter reported wet spring like conditions on saturday, it couldn't have been more different today. i arrived at the K access road spinning my tires while it was snowing pretty good, got me excited. i started on snowdon and i ended on snowdon. sheets of scraped everywhere by the end of the day, it was crazy. glades triple offered up natural snow on ridge run, which sucked but it was 100% natural! couldn't beleive they had natural opened. also had upper chute and great bear open on natural, but they looked to nasty and thin for even my tastes (which is saying something!).
best snow was found on a short segment of cascade where they were blowing hard. nice fresh man made, i liked it. from K peak, natural snow on downdraft and fun steeps on cascade under the gondi. again, it sucked but it was natural!
over on supahstar, the headwall was a flipping mess. scraped to pieces and no pattern what so ever to the big knarly bumps. my first time on "the headwalll" and i was not impressed. ok bumps quickly scraped off on upper superstar into middle superstar. maybe we should break it down further into upper upper and upper middle :roll:
REALLY nice snow on old superstar, even a touch of powder before it was snuffed out by noon time. bumps on skyelark and bittersweet were decent in places, scraped with wide spaces in others. skye hawk headwall section was open, what a waste of time that was. ugh. i love steeps, but the lack of snow was pushing my relatively liberal stretch of what skiable thin cover is.
final note: the canyon quad was running all day but i honestly don't think there was an open trail to reach it. i kept looking but couldn't find a trail not roped to lead me down to it. i only saw one person riding the canyon quad all day, and that was a lift opp down loading. WTF??? seriously, no exageration, the dumbest thing i've ever seen at a ski area. a quad with decent vertical running all day with no one riding it and no known way to get to the boarding area.:?:
i guess that's it. i can't complain, but the snow was pretty ugly in places. a true new england skier type day in which you make the best of what you are given. the type of day that develops technique a bit because you're forced to ski stuff you normally wouldn't need to.
i normally crap on kmart pretty bad. i still feel like K deserves it, but after three tries at K during an aweful early season, i've come away with a little more respect for the mountain. having as much open terrain as they do considering the conditions is just nuts. i was expecting less open terrain than they had today, it's pretty impressive. also impressive were the snow guns covering lower supahstar and the canyon area. i'd guess from super through ramshead to be open 100% by next weekend, everything but the trees.
porter reported wet spring like conditions on saturday, it couldn't have been more different today. i arrived at the K access road spinning my tires while it was snowing pretty good, got me excited. i started on snowdon and i ended on snowdon. sheets of scraped everywhere by the end of the day, it was crazy. glades triple offered up natural snow on ridge run, which sucked but it was 100% natural! couldn't beleive they had natural opened. also had upper chute and great bear open on natural, but they looked to nasty and thin for even my tastes (which is saying something!).
best snow was found on a short segment of cascade where they were blowing hard. nice fresh man made, i liked it. from K peak, natural snow on downdraft and fun steeps on cascade under the gondi. again, it sucked but it was natural!
over on supahstar, the headwall was a flipping mess. scraped to pieces and no pattern what so ever to the big knarly bumps. my first time on "the headwalll" and i was not impressed. ok bumps quickly scraped off on upper superstar into middle superstar. maybe we should break it down further into upper upper and upper middle :roll:
REALLY nice snow on old superstar, even a touch of powder before it was snuffed out by noon time. bumps on skyelark and bittersweet were decent in places, scraped with wide spaces in others. skye hawk headwall section was open, what a waste of time that was. ugh. i love steeps, but the lack of snow was pushing my relatively liberal stretch of what skiable thin cover is.
final note: the canyon quad was running all day but i honestly don't think there was an open trail to reach it. i kept looking but couldn't find a trail not roped to lead me down to it. i only saw one person riding the canyon quad all day, and that was a lift opp down loading. WTF??? seriously, no exageration, the dumbest thing i've ever seen at a ski area. a quad with decent vertical running all day with no one riding it and no known way to get to the boarding area.:?:
i guess that's it. i can't complain, but the snow was pretty ugly in places. a true new england skier type day in which you make the best of what you are given. the type of day that develops technique a bit because you're forced to ski stuff you normally wouldn't need to.