mengo76
04-16-2001, 02:08 PM
OMG !!!! What a beautiful day! only one tiny little cloud in the sky, and it scampered away real fast as if it had gotten on stage at the wrong time. Not too sure how the wind compared to the regular speeds, but I'd guess it was below average.
But... the snow is pretty hard, almost icy. Being NE skiers we shouldn't have a problem with that, but this year we had such good snow, I guess I got spoiled... Hillman's was pretty icy, my buddy slipped and slid down about 100 ft close to the top and recovered about 20 ft before hitting a rock! In the bowl it wasn't much better in the top half, but once you got further down there was some slushy loose stuff which was ver welcome. One of the toughest things was avoiding the fist-sized chunks of hard snow raining down on my head while climbing up the headwall, released by people climbing above or skiers who skied accross the climbing path (the last guy who did that to me proceeded to hava a nasty spill and slide the rest of the way down the bowl rolling over and losing equipment... so there).
Sherborne was great. Soft small moguls all the way. Worth hiking all the way up even if you chicken out of doing the headwall or the other near-vertical runs. And not a single bare spot in sight. We did it in 20 minutes from hojo's to the parking lot, and I was purposefully going slow! (Last year it took around 40 mins, having to dodge all the bare spots, etc.)
Pictures are being developed, hopefully i can post some tomorrow evening!
---mengo.
But... the snow is pretty hard, almost icy. Being NE skiers we shouldn't have a problem with that, but this year we had such good snow, I guess I got spoiled... Hillman's was pretty icy, my buddy slipped and slid down about 100 ft close to the top and recovered about 20 ft before hitting a rock! In the bowl it wasn't much better in the top half, but once you got further down there was some slushy loose stuff which was ver welcome. One of the toughest things was avoiding the fist-sized chunks of hard snow raining down on my head while climbing up the headwall, released by people climbing above or skiers who skied accross the climbing path (the last guy who did that to me proceeded to hava a nasty spill and slide the rest of the way down the bowl rolling over and losing equipment... so there).
Sherborne was great. Soft small moguls all the way. Worth hiking all the way up even if you chicken out of doing the headwall or the other near-vertical runs. And not a single bare spot in sight. We did it in 20 minutes from hojo's to the parking lot, and I was purposefully going slow! (Last year it took around 40 mins, having to dodge all the bare spots, etc.)
Pictures are being developed, hopefully i can post some tomorrow evening!
---mengo.