loon mtn, nh 12-16-08

joegm

joegm

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my buddy is up there and said tuesday at loon was the worst surface conditions he has seen in all his years of skiing...pure sheet metal garbage and full face mask cold =; :roll:
he told me not to come up as i was headed up tonight....looks like that is it for me till after christmas break... oh well
 
You guys are pansies. It's in times like these you put chains on your skis. :wink:

Or you could just bevel your edges as if it were a butchers knife.
 
Hey Rob did you ski Tues ? Didn't think so. Please don't tell me to put my chains on when your in your living room in NY.

I don't post here because I think it's okay to say that a bad day skiing is better than a good day at work. I find many of the snow reports on this site to be very positive and uplifting but at the same time misleading. I travel 2 to 4 hours to ski and I can't understand why an avid skier tends to embellish ski reports. It's okay to say surface conditions suck when surface conditions suck.

I skied Loon on Tuesday and it was a sheet of blue ice, I quite at 01:30 and I usually ski till 4. On Wednesday morning the Loon Mountain report stated they got 4 inches of snow. I woke up Wednesday too at least 6 inches. Conditions were very good. A powder day at Loon. There was so much snow on top of the packed ice that you could turn edge to edge without sliding on ice. I skied Flume and Walking Boss and had a few face shots and wipeouts \:D/ . Great day !! I would recommend Loon this weekend, The south peak chair was closed today but if it is open this weekend it will spread the mountain nicely and conditions should be good. I regretablely told Joe not to come up because the conditions on Tuesday were horrible. I was surprised how great it was Wednesday. As an avid northeast skier I find it fascinating how snow surface conditions can change day to day. Tuesday at Loon was a sheet of ice, Wed. was a powder day and I anticipate tomorrow to be a nice groomed day. Thats 3 totally different surface conditions. Loon w/ a 950 ft. elevation faces weather challenges everyday and the mountain staff does a great job.

Quick story, I was riding up the northpeak quad w/ a Loon instructor on a powder day at Loon and he explains he has 8 girls vacationing from Ireland who liked the icey surface conditions on tuesday better than today's 6 inches of powder.

You can slide on ice w/ $650 tongue depressors and put chains on your skis so you can turn or you can earn your turns. It's northeast skiing it's a difficult sport. Let the reports be accurate and not " oh what a great day "!

This site has some super hard core northeast skiers and technical, honest surface conditions are critical to a potential 2-4 hour drive. For the record I'm sitting in my ski rental shack with a big old fire and a 6 pack of Leinenliugel's. I log on to ski web sites to find out if I should ski at Loon or drive to Burke, Cannon, Sunday Wildcat Etc... I don't won't to here the tourist report, I want the first tracks report. =D>
 
Hey man, I was just joking around... that's why I used the wink guy - :wink: but if you don't want me to joke around thats fine. I'll never ever make another joke again.

I understand why conditions are pertinent for making a trip to the mountains, and I don't like it when people try to push poor conditions as great . I do think it's funny that you called 6 inches of snow "powder." Although, it is certainly softer than ice, I tend to agree with Mr. Crocker, that powder has to offer flotation. I guess for me to be a really powder day we have to get to about 8-12 inches depending on the density of the snow.
 
One of the advantages of our often denser snow on both coasts is that 6 inches will restore a previously unpleasant surface and even 2-3 will help a lot. While I might not call it powder, it can definitely make the difference between "worth skiing" and "not worth skiing." Except of course to Patrick, for whom the latter phrase does not exist. :P

I will defend the quality of reports I read here. They are pretty much the best indications of true conditions you can get short of being there yourself. You have to remember that we nutcases do know how to get the best out of the areas we know well. So I'm very aware, for example, that some of my Mt. Baldy reports are at variance with others' experiences. In response to a question I addressed this point explicitly last January: viewtopic.php?t=6301 (middle of the thread).
 
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