12-29-2008, 04:56 PM
Yikes.
Holidays I know, but with it being a Monday I thought I was semi-safe. Full front lot and lot 4? No. Full lot 5. Full new side-road lot. NJ, CT, and PA license plates abound.
Mountain lost a pretty good amount of snow. Lots of pitted areas (trees, upper liftlines, closed trails) from nair.
The skiing and crowds were more of the same. Joeys abound. It was like northern NJ threw up on the mountain. Double chair and North Side were not open, and there wasn't much to do up top, so the gondola was packed. Triple chair was a bit quicker.
Topridge was pretty icy, but the line for the chair was non-existent. Same can be said for the upper quad. Lies was boring.
The bottom of the mountain had some softer snow - kind of icy granular, kind of corn, kind of sno-cone snow. Sunway & Quiksilver were a death trap but fun as usual. Slow people and crashed people everywhere - dodging brought some excitement.
Park was set up on Sleighride. Jump at the top, three average sized rails and boxes on the bottom. Not enough speed for the jump, should flip-flop the rails and jump.
Best skiing of the day was probably Twister area (although packed and dangerous)? I guess? It was all sort of blended together today.
I know that sounded like a lot of complaining but all in all I had fun cruising around the mountain with my friends. I'll probably take a few days off and get back out there if we get some more snow later this week, if that ends up happening.
Holidays I know, but with it being a Monday I thought I was semi-safe. Full front lot and lot 4? No. Full lot 5. Full new side-road lot. NJ, CT, and PA license plates abound.
Mountain lost a pretty good amount of snow. Lots of pitted areas (trees, upper liftlines, closed trails) from nair.
The skiing and crowds were more of the same. Joeys abound. It was like northern NJ threw up on the mountain. Double chair and North Side were not open, and there wasn't much to do up top, so the gondola was packed. Triple chair was a bit quicker.
Topridge was pretty icy, but the line for the chair was non-existent. Same can be said for the upper quad. Lies was boring.
The bottom of the mountain had some softer snow - kind of icy granular, kind of corn, kind of sno-cone snow. Sunway & Quiksilver were a death trap but fun as usual. Slow people and crashed people everywhere - dodging brought some excitement.
Park was set up on Sleighride. Jump at the top, three average sized rails and boxes on the bottom. Not enough speed for the jump, should flip-flop the rails and jump.
Best skiing of the day was probably Twister area (although packed and dangerous)? I guess? It was all sort of blended together today.
I know that sounded like a lot of complaining but all in all I had fun cruising around the mountain with my friends. I'll probably take a few days off and get back out there if we get some more snow later this week, if that ends up happening.