Sharon
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Unbelievable!!
I went to bed sunday night thinking this storm is a bust. The best skiing was sunday in the north country where it had dumped all afternoon but I was stuck here in central NY. We attended a dinner party on the lake and the rain had stopped enough for us to barbecue. It began to rain again around 10 as we were heading home. As we hit about 1000' in elevation towards our homeward destination (elevation 1200') the countryside whitened as the droplets became large white blobs splattering on the windshield. When we let the dogs out for their last outing before bed the winds started up as the snow increased.
Woken to howling winds upon my window and the bright white landscape shining in, I listened to the radio announce that every school in 100 miles was closed. Maybe I'll take the dogs on a quick xc ski before work. My office was still open.
My cell phone beeps notifying me of a text message. It was Acid Christ. The message read "Geek is open". Greek Peak had closed for the season 2 weeks ago and this past weekend they had a snow-cross on the remaining snow. I didn't believe they would be open so I called 1-800-365-7669 snowphone to hear the jubliant voice of Wes Kryger announcing that Greek Peak is open, running 2 lifts and grooming. Unbelievable!!!
I called Tom, my teacher-friend who lives nearby and he was game. Out the door I was temporarily held up on my driveway where a tree had fallen. Luckily it was dead and I was able to snap off enough branches to get my car through.
The roads were dicey, but I?ve driven worse. The trusty Subaru got us there safe and sound. There were not more than 10 cars, most of which belonged to Greek Peak employees.
It was 10am and there were no tracks from the bridge to the lift. We got the first chair at 10!!! Unbelievable. There was no one else around.
First tracks, second tracks, third tracks?Eleysian Fields was all mine for 6-7 runs. I was careful to keep my turns embedded into the previous run. By noon we started seeing more people and we tracked out the best spots.
The snow was heavy and dense and even with fat skis was a lot of work. We didn?t see a lot of people all morning, though some of the ones we saw were floundering in the deep thick snow. Not a good day for telemarkers and even my snowboarding friend was having some problems?especially in the flats. He ended up riding the one groomed trail, Karyatis a number of times, just because of the sheer amount of work necessary to ski any ungroomed trail. They were working on grooming Iliad, but had a long way to go. Some people skied Iliad, but I thought it might be too flat for the thick conditions and opted for the steepest terrain I could get to.
I took a solo foray over to the still-closed Olympian. There was a tree down across the trail. Ski patrol had taken a run on it already, but it was before the treefall because the tracks go right under the tree.
Olympian skied just fine, though once in the flats, it took a lot of effort.
Acid Christ calls?he?s on his way.
I met up with him for 2 runs. We skied the still closed Odyssey. It skied much better than Olympian because it had more consistent pitch all the way down and was closer to the groomed run-out. 2 other patrollers skied Olympian and had a minor slog.
The snow got a bit sleety and my legs were beginning to feel the burn from the heavy snow. I felt I had skied the best there was and it was time to get to work in town.
Got to work by 1:30
I went to bed sunday night thinking this storm is a bust. The best skiing was sunday in the north country where it had dumped all afternoon but I was stuck here in central NY. We attended a dinner party on the lake and the rain had stopped enough for us to barbecue. It began to rain again around 10 as we were heading home. As we hit about 1000' in elevation towards our homeward destination (elevation 1200') the countryside whitened as the droplets became large white blobs splattering on the windshield. When we let the dogs out for their last outing before bed the winds started up as the snow increased.
Woken to howling winds upon my window and the bright white landscape shining in, I listened to the radio announce that every school in 100 miles was closed. Maybe I'll take the dogs on a quick xc ski before work. My office was still open.
My cell phone beeps notifying me of a text message. It was Acid Christ. The message read "Geek is open". Greek Peak had closed for the season 2 weeks ago and this past weekend they had a snow-cross on the remaining snow. I didn't believe they would be open so I called 1-800-365-7669 snowphone to hear the jubliant voice of Wes Kryger announcing that Greek Peak is open, running 2 lifts and grooming. Unbelievable!!!
I called Tom, my teacher-friend who lives nearby and he was game. Out the door I was temporarily held up on my driveway where a tree had fallen. Luckily it was dead and I was able to snap off enough branches to get my car through.
The roads were dicey, but I?ve driven worse. The trusty Subaru got us there safe and sound. There were not more than 10 cars, most of which belonged to Greek Peak employees.
It was 10am and there were no tracks from the bridge to the lift. We got the first chair at 10!!! Unbelievable. There was no one else around.
First tracks, second tracks, third tracks?Eleysian Fields was all mine for 6-7 runs. I was careful to keep my turns embedded into the previous run. By noon we started seeing more people and we tracked out the best spots.
The snow was heavy and dense and even with fat skis was a lot of work. We didn?t see a lot of people all morning, though some of the ones we saw were floundering in the deep thick snow. Not a good day for telemarkers and even my snowboarding friend was having some problems?especially in the flats. He ended up riding the one groomed trail, Karyatis a number of times, just because of the sheer amount of work necessary to ski any ungroomed trail. They were working on grooming Iliad, but had a long way to go. Some people skied Iliad, but I thought it might be too flat for the thick conditions and opted for the steepest terrain I could get to.
I took a solo foray over to the still-closed Olympian. There was a tree down across the trail. Ski patrol had taken a run on it already, but it was before the treefall because the tracks go right under the tree.
Olympian skied just fine, though once in the flats, it took a lot of effort.
Acid Christ calls?he?s on his way.
I met up with him for 2 runs. We skied the still closed Odyssey. It skied much better than Olympian because it had more consistent pitch all the way down and was closer to the groomed run-out. 2 other patrollers skied Olympian and had a minor slog.
The snow got a bit sleety and my legs were beginning to feel the burn from the heavy snow. I felt I had skied the best there was and it was time to get to work in town.
Got to work by 1:30
