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summitchallenger
12-06-2009, 08:54 PM
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009

Conditions: SM/Variable

Weather: Cold, clouds with some sun

Report #: 1

Report: At long last, my season started. Though things are off about two weeks, it felt like forever. There have been some naysayers in here, but there were only smiles at the mountain today.

My plan was to get to the mountain at about 9:15 or so, to allow folks to break up any frankensnow so that I would get soft turns. It was a good plan.

I will admit that I was a bit :roll: at having not one but three "Sugarbush Sirens" approach me between the car and lift, warning of doom and gloom at the top, "big snow whales," and "experts only" terrain. I was :blink: as to if I had a sign that read "gaper" or something. They were well intentioned, but it made me wonder....was it that bad? I was prepared for the worst. Just before boarding Bravo, one of the lifties looked at me and said, "welcome, thanks for coming out."

Well, here are Win's "sketchy" conditions...I'll let the pics do the talking.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs068.snc3/13559_191478289666_744459666_2967275_2782748_n.jpg


http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs048.snc3/13559_191473459666_744459666_2967212_5395256_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs068.snc3/13559_191473479666_744459666_2967214_7833538_n.jpg

summitchallenger
12-06-2009, 08:58 PM
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs048.snc3/13559_191475469666_744459666_2967233_5664792_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs068.snc3/13559_191475474666_744459666_2967234_8137543_n.jpg

Pretty rough going! Edge to edge coverage, nice soft snow...especially from about 10-11 or so...and not too crowded.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs068.snc3/13559_191475479666_744459666_2967235_1072761_n.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs068.snc3/13559_191475484666_744459666_2967236_984053_n.jpg

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs068.snc3/13559_191476884666_744459666_2967249_4985313_n.jpg

Sandy even did a photo shoot at the summit:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs048.snc3/13559_191476894666_744459666_2967250_7871479_n.jpg

I skied about 10 runs before taking lunch and skiing one more. At 12:45 it was getting kind of icy and the bumps were getting odd. It was not bad at all IMHO. I downloaded and headed home after visiting with SRO. A good day and thanks for opening!

shadyjay
12-06-2009, 11:02 PM
Very nice shots!

Wow - there was apparently a lot of blue sky today... we had a "snowmaking cloud" over us at HG most of the day... which is not necessarily a bad thing!

Lostone
12-07-2009, 08:16 AM
Didn't hear it, but my guess is the ambassadors were told to approach everyone and warn them that there was nothing groomed, and that conditions might not be the best.

I'd guess that was slowed, somewhat, with the reports that everyone on the mountain was saying it was pretty good.

summitchallenger
12-07-2009, 09:01 AM
And here is that shot that Sandy got...amazing:

http://www.sugarbush.com/images/uploaded/photo_gallery/12062009_HGTurn_1.jpg