Sunday Report

[summitchallenger]

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 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.

[summitchallenger]

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







Sandy even did a photo shoot at the summit:



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]

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]

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]

And here is that shot that Sandy got...amazing: