2024 resurrection weekend

[JFskiDan]

Those of us with IKON passes drove up just past Elk mountain and skied Stratton today. Cloudy, kinda foggy, actually really foggy at times, but no dampness. Some very sticky snow in spots, otherwise if you stayed on the traveled path pretty nice soft spring like snow.  
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killington tomorrow. 

Edited March 28 by JFskiDan

[DiMe]

Ikon pass is great 😇

[momskeeztoo]

I’ve had an Ikon pass for past 3 years, love it. Was considering not getting another for next year- had a pretty good discount working in healthcare, but now I’m retired. But IDK, think I’ll regret it if I don’t. 

[JFskiDan]

Lacking in the trip report for sure. 
Friday, killington.  Very firm to start. Cloudy. No crowds. Ski on every lift like skiitoolive. 
We ended up on some trail, which should have been called “certain death” as it was the slickest, and most un-skiable trail i have been on in a while. People were eating shit on it hard and ending up in the grass. Skiing the frozen junky bumps on the side was better than doing the power slide in the grass. 
sun poked out just enough to soften some stuff up. Not entire runs, but parts of runs. 
Killington has good coverage. 
 

[JFskiDan]

Saturday, sugarbush. Sometime in the middle of the night @Johnny Law showed up. He headed to the resort a little earlier than us, as we were thinking 10:30 to let some stuff soften up. Firm-ish conditions up top, with softer stuff towards the bottom. The sun started doing its thing and softening stuff up that was in the sun, shady stuff was just a little pokey, but getting there. 1 pm we met up with jeffs buddy nick for some nice laps at castlerock. Terrain at CR was a little limited, selective at times, but still went.  Big fun bumps with a good collection of rocks mixed in. Finished off the day with a few runs off heavens gate, ran till just after 3pm or so. 
sugarbush rocks, sugarbush skied well, and has real nice coverage. That was a pretty energetic day, as even @NMSKI said he was pretty much drained. 

[JFskiDan]

Sunday, a little Magic. Still love this place, but really want to hit it with more open. 
above freezing overnight, so, some firm stuff with a little Blue Mountain type cookies, which softened up pretty fast. Very similar to last year as to what was open. A few groomed runs, and some fun spicy snow, grass, rocks with a few drainage pipe crossings mixed in. Got warm real quick, and that made the run outs real slow, and pretty grabby by 1 pm. Got to ride the black lift. Had a nice burger at the BLT. On the road now.  

[Johnny Law]

My weekend turned into a bit of a landmine that blew up in my face so I could only ride with the crew on Saturday but it was just perfect.

It started firm af but as the sun came out the super soft started coming through. We went in search of the steep bumps and the bush delivered with super soft blasters. NM put the pedal to 150 and was channeling his inner plake at ludicrous speed. 

Under sunny skies and warm temps we ran castle Rock, heavens gate and north links until they closed. 

Celebrations for such a day were in order and Lawsons Castlerock and headys went down easy, for at least a moment I'd wager there was no better place to be. 

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice reports so far… @Dirtwolf the first time I heard a Grateful Dead song was at sugarbush at the base of Heavens gate when I was in 11th grade in 1996, it was Touch of Gray and I heard a lot more Grateful Dead in college.  
 

Y’all got to ride the heavens gate triple for its final weekend after a 30+ year run.  I also always had the fraggle rock theme song in my head when I rode castle rock..that’s where warren miller superstars Dan and John Egan got their start…

 

 

[NMSKI]

Awesome trip with a great crew, and it went by way too fast.  I’ll remember the day we had at the bush for a long time.  I love spring skiing just as much as about anything and we sure skied our asses off!  Agree with Law that there was no place better to be than with a good group of guys post skiing stoke, drinking a heady topper while the sun is about to set over the mountain.  

pics of various places:

 

 

[DiMe]

Anyone still gonna be up this week?  Im riding Killington Tuesday, Stratton Wednesday and Thursday.

[pcklein31]

On 3/29/2024 at 9:08 PM, momskeeztoo said:

I’ve had an Ikon pass for past 3 years, love it. Was considering not getting another for next year- had a pretty good discount working in healthcare, but now I’m retired. But IDK, think I’ll regret it if I don’t. 

II had an Ikon the last three years and loved it. However I decided to get an Epic pass this year as there are some trips I want this coming year based on a Epic Pass(namely Japan with Rusutsu and Hakuba Valley).  But I'm really hoping I don't regret it... I'm not overly looking forward to JF/Hunter/Mt Snow as my local day trip mountains.  

I will plan to go back Ikon the following year, but I guess it will be nice to force myself to some different locations .

[pcklein31]

On 3/31/2024 at 10:21 PM, DiMe said:

Anyone still gonna be up this week?  Im riding Killington Tuesday, Stratton Wednesday and Thursday.

I was at Stratton on Easter Sunday and things were nice .. empty.  With the snow they are getting tomorrow, should be great 

[momskeeztoo]

On 3/31/2024 at 9:03 PM, NMSKI said:

Awesome trip with a great crew, and it went by way too fast.  I’ll remember the day we had at the bush for a long time.  I love spring skiing just as much as about anything and we sure skied our asses off!  Agree with Law that there was no place better to be than with a good group of guys post skiing stoke, drinking a heady topper while the sun is about to set over the mountain.  

pics of various places:

 

 

Heady Topper, Sugarbush, spring skiing!! Sounds right up my alley 😍