Harvey44
04-09-2008, 09:19 PM
After blowing out of work at 2:30 yesterday and driving to our place in North River, I was excited and anxious to get a shot at the slides. It was not to be.
We asked whoever we could find...what is up with the slides? Nobody knew, or would say. After a few runs on the summit quad and little face, skipat at the top gave us the bad news....slides are closed for the season.
JamesDeluxe, his buddy Steve, Patrick and I made the best of it. I'm new to WF and I didn't look at the map much so I'm not sure of the names of alot of what we did. But here is what I do know:
Slightly overcast but somehow sunny... things were corning up nicely by 10am when we loaded onto the facelift. Hit Upper Skyward, Cloudspin and some stuff on LW. One tree run was open, and the cover was dicey in the there. Lost lots of snow since yesterday, according to the reports. For me, highlights were the bumps on Upper and Lower Mac, and the obstacle course on Empire. And that steep little side thing, down by the base of the summit chair. (EDIT: Blazers Bluff) By the end of the day we were, at times, water skiing in runoff.
I was with some fast alpine skiers and was whipped by beer thirty.
It's a cool mountain. One thing it actually has in common with Gore - a hardcore, fanatical fan base. Next year, I'll be ready to jump when the slides open. I really want to get my shot.
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLpQ0.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLpQ0)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1JTssr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1JTssr)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLzOA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLzOA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLENS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLENS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLOMr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLOMr)
We asked whoever we could find...what is up with the slides? Nobody knew, or would say. After a few runs on the summit quad and little face, skipat at the top gave us the bad news....slides are closed for the season.
JamesDeluxe, his buddy Steve, Patrick and I made the best of it. I'm new to WF and I didn't look at the map much so I'm not sure of the names of alot of what we did. But here is what I do know:
Slightly overcast but somehow sunny... things were corning up nicely by 10am when we loaded onto the facelift. Hit Upper Skyward, Cloudspin and some stuff on LW. One tree run was open, and the cover was dicey in the there. Lost lots of snow since yesterday, according to the reports. For me, highlights were the bumps on Upper and Lower Mac, and the obstacle course on Empire. And that steep little side thing, down by the base of the summit chair. (EDIT: Blazers Bluff) By the end of the day we were, at times, water skiing in runoff.
I was with some fast alpine skiers and was whipped by beer thirty.
It's a cool mountain. One thing it actually has in common with Gore - a hardcore, fanatical fan base. Next year, I'll be ready to jump when the slides open. I really want to get my shot.
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLpQ0.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLpQ0)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1JTssr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1JTssr)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLzOA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLzOA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLENS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLENS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1hLOMr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1hLOMr)