As we took the long President’s Day weekend off from skiing to make a little trip to Florida, I was pretty convinced that we’d be missing out on stellar skiing because that’s normally how it works. Turns out the skiing was marginal while we were away, and we returned to what was unequivocally an epic [...]
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Posted in 2008-2009 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 19th, 2009
Cold and dry weather in the week leading up to the weekend meant conditions were decent in most places and a bit worn in others. The wind was the big problem on Saturday, however, as a front bringing much warmer temps rolled in. We were able to get one run in on Heaven’s Gate before [...]
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Powder Day 1/31/2009, originally uploaded by jimschley. A big storm on Wednesday and Thursday dumped 21″ at Sugarbush followed by a surprise 8″ dump on Friday night had me itching to get on the mountain. The first storm left a deep, dense snowpack of dry snow. It was a substantial dumping that did a great [...]
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