Sugarloaf1989 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Area skied: Magic Mtn, VermontDate skied: February 8th, 2014 from 8:30am - 10:30amSurafce conditions: Groomed packed powder, hardpacked, loose powder.Weather: Clear and 11F at 8:30amI skied Magic Mtn yesterday with my son as we both had discounted lift tickets that we bought at the Boston Ski Expo. We arrived at Magic to clear skies with the temperature in the low teens.The first thing that I noticed was how cold the snow was which made turns very difficult and slow. Our first run was down Magic Carpet to Up Your Sleeve / Lower Magic Carpet. The groomed part of Upper Magic Carpet was great with buttery soft turns. Up your Sleeve was not the best with stiff, hard to turn in snow. The trail had plenty of cover, as did Lower Magic Carpet, just not fun to ski IMO.Our second run was down Wizard to Talisman and both trails had plenty of groomed cover, but Talisman did have quite a bit of smaller ice cookies mixed in with the packed powder.Third run was down Trick / Wand / Lower Magician and Trick had edgable groomed packed powder with a few tiny ice cookies, Wand was nice if not dark and cold, while Lower Magician was fun with lots of packed powder and moguls.Fourth run was down Upper Wizard / Broomstick / Heart Of Magician / Lower Magician. Upper Wizard was fine and Broomstick had plenty of cover with some moguls. Heart Of Magician was suckerbrush galore with powder cover that just moved out from under your ski's to reveal bare ground and rocks. Turns where difficult and we hit plenty of rocks.The line for the Black Chair was about 20 minutes at this point and we both felt the skiing was not worth the wait, so we bailed and headed to Bromley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Area skied: Bromley, VermontDate skied: February 8th, 2014 from 11:45am - 3:00pmSurface conditions: packed powder.Weather: Sunshine and temps between 18-24FSkiing at Bromley was 100% better IMO than anything at Magic and my son and I had fun on any run on the mountain that we choose to ski. Conditions where packed powder on all trails with just a few hardpacked spots and nearly no ice.Pushover skied nicely with just a few thin spots as this is a natural snow trail. Avalanche was fun with some large moguls and really good cover for a natural trail.We skied Run Around #1 - 3 and all had packed powder, but where crowded at times making carefully planned turns required to avoid a collision.Upper Twister was a bit scratchy in spots, while upper Boulevard was better as this is a natural trail with less skier traffic. Upper Twister is the main ski trail off the Sun Mountain Express, so it tends to get skied off.Upper Twister:The Everglade was fun with soft packed powder and just a few thin spots and The Glade was in a similar condition.The Everglade:We took a run off the Sun Chair and skied Liftline as well as Upper and Lower East Meadow.Liftline:We skied School Slope off the Lord's Prayer T-bar as my son likes surface lifts. School Slope maintained groomer snow conditions throught the day and we skied this run three times.By 3pm the Sun Mountain Express developed a line about 10 minutes long and our legs where tired, so we called it a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeepowderhunter Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 My advise would be to hit magic on a pow day to see what the mountain has to truly offer. If that is not possible then the experience can be less then desired. I have had some of my best storm skiing day there. There are some great glades that get thinned out during the summer months. Better luck next time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 My advise would be to hit magic on a pow day to see what the mountain has to truly offer. If that is not possible then the experience can be less then desired. I have had some of my best storm skiing day there. There are some great glades that get thinned out during the summer months. Better luck next time? I've skied Magic since 1997 with plenty of powder days. I really wasn't looking for powder, just some good conditions and natural snow. The snow at Magic was just really stiff and cold, Bromley was much better, even the natural snow trails where more fun. I think the snow last week fell wet at Magic and got harder with the cold of the last few night's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bch2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Looking at the forecast for my trip to Telluride, it appears that after all this snow they've been getting, it will will become very warm. The daytime highs even at elevation will be in the forties and the lows in the twenties most likely... I honestly don't mind this TOO much because I'll enjoy the sun and scenery that the San Juans are known for, and the warm weather looks to last long enough that the snow will develop a springy feel instead of being just mank. Still, it's a bit annoying to get totally skunked on snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Skinned up Ascutney today. Powder turns, cardio, friendly locals, and scenery. Nice little mountain, steep in places, with excellent glades on the boundary by the cabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Do people still trim the brush in the trails there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Do people still trim the brush in the trails there? The brush was about 3' tall on the trails when I visted there in October of 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 That looks great and the conditions look superb. I'm planning on skiing there next saturday as I'll be visiting my sister who lives in Milford. How was the rest of the mountain conditions wise? It's been about 15 years since I last skied at Elk. Conditions are very good and if the storm this week can reach them then it will be even better. Enjoy the best ski area in eastern PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Conditions are very good and if the storm this week can reach them then it will be even better. Enjoy the best ski area in eastern PA. Thank you for the information, I'm looking forward to skiing there. My memories of this mountain was that it skied like a New England resort. 3" new overnight + this upcoming storm should make for excellent conditions come this weekend. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Cold smoke powder maybe 8" deep at Pico today made for an excellent day. One of those days where the snow is deep but has very little resistance. If you did not look down at all you would only know it was deep powder because you could feel you have cold knees. Sleeper ski day. At about noon it started snowing hardcagain and it was instant refresh all afternoon. If you can make first chair Tuesfay I would recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizoo Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Not too shabby at Okemo today..Probably 98% of Okemo skiers stay on the groomers 100% of the time so when the snow is good, you generally have the ungroomed and woods to yourself. This was from 10:30 today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subdude Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Skinned up Ascutney today. Powder turns, cardio, friendly locals, and scenery. Nice little mountain, steep in places, with excellent glades on the boundary by the cabin. 20140209_ascutney1.png 20140209_ascutney2.png 20140209_ascutney3.png nice pics, I've skied Ascutney a few times. Sad to see it closed. Looks like you had a great day, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subdude Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 scheduled to work at WaWa tomorrow night, Should be interesting to say the least. Provided they're even open. First tracks on Fri should be sweet, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I think I'm going to head to Mount Snow on Friday. 25 dollar tix if you buy before midnigt tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeepowderhunter Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 If you have never been to magic. Friday could be the day...saw you with your Kinco on tv. Good call, just make sure to waterproof them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hoping for a Magic Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 If you have never been to magic. Friday could be the day...saw you with your Kinco on tv. Good call, just make sure to waterproof them. In the oven and snowsealed. They're great... really warm. Was thinking about magic but decided to go with the $25 mt snow tix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I hope to mosey on over to the bump for Thurs and Friday Could be fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sankaty Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I think I'm going to head to Mount Snow on Friday. 25 dollar tix if you buy before midnigt tonight. Heading to Mount Snow for Friday as well. Should be an epic day for $25 (as long as we can get there). I was there last weekend and it was already very good, with just some thin cover on natural snow trails. Nothing 10-15" of powder can't fix. How do you think the drive will be? We're thinking of leaving between 5:30 and 6AM. Figure we'll be out of the steady snow for most of the drive by then, but maybe not by much, depending on which model you believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Heading to Mount Snow for Friday as well. Should be an epic day for $25 (as long as we can get there). I was there last weekend and it was already very good, with just some thin cover on natural snow trails. Nothing 10-15" of powder can't fix. How do you think the drive will be? We're thinking of leaving between 5:30 and 6AM. Figure we'll be out of the steady snow for most of the drive by then, but maybe not by much, depending on which model you believe. Could be a bit nasty for a time but I think the storm is pretty much over by 5 in CT. I have a bad in the snow Saab and I'm not too worried about the drive (yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 cheaper than the legendary kinko (good luck finding gore-tex at that price) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Catamount is 2 for 1 tomorrow. Makes it $15 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 20" of pow for mt snow and Stratton tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sankaty Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 20" of pow for mt snow and Stratton tomorrow? I'm so excited. I almost always take my 98mm Blizzard One's with me, even on days when I know I won't use them. I call them my optimist skis. It's nice to put them in the car knowing they'll be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 I need to get some wax lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 ragged mtn is 14$ if you purchase by midnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 so, is travel going to be possible tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RI Rob Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 heading up to sunday river tomorrow. is more snow expected in maine tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Skiing Stowe today - look for a bright yellow Spyder jacket and orange Dynastars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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