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Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Mar 31st, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_0127, originally uploaded by jmurphy67. Saturday at Sugarbush was the 41st annual pond skimming contest and ReggaeFest, and despite the fact that this is the prototypical “Spring” event at the resort, [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 23rd, 2008
No sign of Spring yet! It dumped snow most of the day on Friday, and it had been snowing much of the second half of the week, eventually totaling around sixteen inches by the time it finally shut off, making way for sunshine. Friday was a great powder day, and the only challenge were the [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Mar 18th, 2008
Saturday was an absolutely excellent ski day at Sugarbush. It started out right with three inches of new snow on Friday on top of six inches earlier in the week. The weather was warm with temps ranging in the low to upper thirties. Danielle and I met up with Jim after we did a few [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 6th, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Better than frozen moss, originally uploaded by jimschley. We wrapped up our Utah trip on Tuesday with a full morning of skiing before heading to the airport for the flight back [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 4th, 2008
Alta is for skiers! that’s the slogan of the Alta Ski Area, and it’s well known as a skier’s mecca (snowboarding is not allowed). We left our digs at the base of Snowbird and skied onto the Peruvian Quad chairlift, first thing Monday morning. From there, we took the tunnel and dropped into Mineral Basin [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Powder Days, Ski on Mar 2nd, 2008
We woke up on Sunday morning to the sound of a howitzer firing 105mm shells against the side of the mountain for avalanche control. The forecast went from 2-4″ and later shifted to 4-8″. We ended up with 14″ at daybreak. I didn’t mind that they got it wrong. The skiing was phenomenal and it [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Mar 1st, 2008
The locals were not too happy with the conditions at Snowbird on Saturday since it had been a whopping five days since it had snowed and it had also gotten pretty warm on Thursday and Friday. I thought the conditions were great. With the exception of a few slopes that had baked in the sun [...]
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