It was a Good Friday at the Glen TR

**Plakespear** · 04-07-2007, 02:42 PM

When I heard thursday night that Mad River Glen was reopening on Friday with over a foot of new snow, I thought about getting up early and hitting it. When I also heard that there would be $29 lift tickets, and knowing that this would probably be my last chance to ride the old single before it gets renovated this summer, the decison to wake up before dawn was a no-brainer. So with a 5:30 AM wake up call, I headed up Rte. 100 to MRG.

I arrived at about 9:10, giving me 20 minutes to boot up, get a pass, and get in line for the sinlge- which was the only lift running. I didn't get first chair, but I'm sure I was amongst the first 50. If I was at Jay or Snowbird, that would probably equate to first tram, so I wasn't too upset.

Riding up the single:

My "new" Pow plusses. I haven't even had a chance to Spatulate the tips or paint the topsheets:

After my first run, I ran into buckethead in the liftline. Here he is riding a little pice of history. These chairs are going to be auctioned off, and whoever gets this one will have an extra special one, since it has now been tagged with a "Change for a nickel?" sticker.

Buckethead on Chute:

On the next run we ran into L8APX and his buddies in the liftline. We headed up to hit some trees.

L8APX, me and someone who's name I can't remember on top of MRG:

It's a nice view from the top.

Me showing some poor steeze, but neccesaryto avoid getting a facefull of tree branch:

L8APX tries to figure out how to hell to draw a line though the trees:

After we came out of the trees, we started to hike to some hopefully untracked terrain, when we came across a guy with no skis lying in the snow. Apparently he had been skiing Octopussy's Garden solo, banged his hip pretty bad, and crawled out of the woods to a groomer. We waited with him, telling him jokes and putting our jackets on him to keep him warm until the patrol arrived. About 100m uphill from him was another incapacitated skier who was skiing solo through the woods. Be careful in the trees, folks. If you get hurt, there's no guaruntee you'll be found quickly. These guys wre lucky, but it could have been a lot worse.

Oh, and the snow was FKNA Boner City powder. If it wasn't for the fact that I was surrounded by a LOT of trees, I wouldn't think I was skiing in VT. The lightest blower have ever seen in the East.

**squirrelmurphy** · 04-07-2007, 04:24 PM

Nice!! went up today, expecting it to we thoroughly worked, but still found plenty of pow in the woods. I guess even on the trails too. a couple of shots...

jesse sending partridge directly through a bush

grom 1

grom 2

**soul_skier** · 04-07-2007, 04:35 PM

woot, young-uns sending it hardcore

**H-man** · 04-07-2007, 04:48 PM

Most excellent Grom shots!

**Lexi-Bell** · 04-07-2007, 04:56 PM

Nice kid stoke!

Shame about the single chair, what's replacing it?

**BushwackerinPA** · 04-07-2007, 04:57 PM

love the groom shots. grom 2 has good styke

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nils nice TR and when you coming out here?

**squirrelmurphy** · 04-07-2007, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lexi-Bell

Nice kid stoke!

Shame about the single chair, what's replacing it?

a new single chair...

**shmerham** · 04-07-2007, 06:01 PM

yeeeeeeeah booooys! Skier who's name you can't remember is Half-Fast

**L8APX** · 04-07-2007, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by shmerham

yeeeeeeeah booooys! Skier who's name you can't remember is Half-Fast

Wish you could have been there too.

**A Random Skier** · 04-07-2007, 07:16 PM

The Glen's lookin nice! I don't think I have ever skied a foot of pow on Easter weekend. Enjoy it.

I can't believe they're replacing that single. That old lifts been there for so long, I thought they'd never remove it. I'm going to miss that old guy.

Grom 2 -> MAD STEEZE

**dfinn** · 04-07-2007, 09:18 PM

It's seems crazy that they are still going to shut it down for the season tomorrow. There's plenty of snow to keep it open and the forecast for this week looks good.

**TJ.Brk** · 04-07-2007, 09:33 PM

Sweet pics Nils. So when do the atomics get spatulized?

**The Dad** · 04-07-2007, 10:15 PM

Nicely played. Enjoy.

**buckethead** · 04-09-2007, 07:44 AM

glad you got some pics up nils!
whwn my camera got fried a couple of weeks back, i figured i was only missing shooting pics of melting snow and growing brown spots.
as great as friday was, yesterday was even better!
by the time i got to the hill, they'd received another 6-8" of fluff, and later in the day, the snow machine cranked up, set to DUMP!
it was a strange feeling: a few more hours of season to go, and the kind of snow that - given the forecast - had me imagining MRG making it to may.
by my last run down paradise, the hill must have picked up another 5-6"!!

bummer - guess it'll have to be stowe next weekend

on a positive note, alex, the guy who'd crawled out of Octopussy - actually walked out of the hospital. Props to MRG patrol for staying cool and getting him quickly to an ambulance.

Unfortunately the other guy hurt in those woods fractured the top of his tibia - i believe. There was a third skier hurt on friday as well. A patroller later told me that Friday had been the busiest rescue day of the year, with 3 of the season's 15 or so incidents.

i'l try to post more on sat+sunday...but I NEED PICS!

if anyone has any, i'll start a MRG TR in progress where people can put 'em

thanks.

SkiBumOfVT · 04-09-2007, 07:51 AM

looks good for last runs of the season

**road trip** · 04-09-2007, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by soul_skier

woot, young-uns sending it hardcore

Agree! I guess the we need to have a HIT INDEX similar to the BODY MASS INDEX for grom hucks... because a 6 foot huck is a lot different if your 4'5" versus 6'5"

Glad everybody got some! I hope you don't feel violated, but I was living vicariously through you all this weekend. <grin>

**Below Zero** · 04-09-2007, 08:18 AM

I'm loving this pic. It's like, Ooooohhh...my....gaawwwddd!

**Jay's Dip Powcher** · 04-09-2007, 11:37 AM

what a great fucking thread!

**SheSkisTrees** · 04-09-2007, 11:45 AM

Sounds like you had a blast! Love the awesome kid stoke! That second kid's got it down pat.

**Altaholic** · 04-09-2007, 10:10 PM

Oh how I miss the Mad River Valley, ecspecially this year when Jay Peak, VT got a little less than Alta/Snowbird this year. Hopefully next year LCC will be back to normal or hopefully above normal. Only one supersick storm cycle

, I don't wanna relive this winter next year, maybee I'm spoiled from the last three winters hear.

**buckethead** · 04-10-2007, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Altaholic

Oh how I miss the Mad River Valley, ecspecially this year when Jay Peak, VT got a little less than Alta/Snowbird this year. Hopefully next year LCC will be back to normal or hopefully above normal. Only one supersick storm cycle

, I don't wanna relive this winter next year, maybee I'm spoiled from the last three winters hear.

haven't you heard?
EC is the new west

[anti-jinx] only kidding! the nearly 2mos straight of pow days in northern VT
was grossly overrated. bring back the ICE!! i hate my powder boards - i wanna NEED my p50s again!! [/anti-jinx]

**SheSkisTrees** · 04-10-2007, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by buckethead

haven't you heard?
EC is the new west

[anti-jinx] only kidding! the nearly 2mos straight of pow days in northern VT
was grossly overrated. bring back the ICE!! i hate my powder boards - i wanna NEED my p50s again!! [/anti-jinx]

Now stop that, buckethead. We haven't had any snow here all season. All the photos are photochopped and you know it.

By the way, should I mention that it is flurrying here?

**Natedogg** · 04-10-2007, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by buckethead

bring back the ICE!! i hate my powder boards - i wanna NEED my p50s again!! [/anti-jinx]

"I prefer rock-hard days myself."
"Would you rather ski a borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring heli bowl..."

-Plake

**buckethead** · 04-10-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by SheSkisTrees

Now stop that, buckethead. We haven't had any snow here all season. All the photos are photochopped and you know it.

By the way, should I mention that it is flurrying here?

...as in SNOW flurries?
I don't believe it...i don't see any snow here

has Jay set a closing date yet?
(the website gives me a headache every time i look for info...way too much overlapping text/flash graphics - at least via my browser)

**SheSkisTrees** · 04-10-2007, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by buckethead

...as in SNOW flurries?
I don't believe it...i don't see any snow here

has Jay set a closing date yet?
(the website gives me a headache every time i look for info...way too much overlapping text/flash graphics - at least via my browser)

Well, there's something white and fluffy floating merrily through the air here...

Patrollers have been told that this Saturday is closing day. The Pond Skimming Event will be held, but I can't imagine how they're going to do that when we're supposed to be getting 8-16 inches of new snow by Friday (says Roemer). I mean, who's gonna do a Pond Skimming when they could be doing a Beyond Beaver Pond Floating Thru Powder event instead?