Today featured a little bit of everything from powder to packed powder, scraped bumps to corn bumps, variable snow to mank. Things got started in incredible fashion with untracked powder in the trees–almost deep enough for Powder Day status. After my first run, I changed skis to my powder boards. Trees were excellent with great coverage and occasional untracked lines yielding four inches or more of somewhat fluffy snow up high. The trails were well covered with many liftline cliffs (including Birdcage) open; amazing coverage for April 2nd.
As the morning progressed, the air got warmer down low and stayed cooler up high. The mank level slowly worked its way up the mountain. By late day, trees off the Sunnyside were too manky for my tastes. So I abandoned the woods for a top to bottom down Chute to Liftline. After hitting Cannon on Friday, my legs were failing to deliver a back-to-back bell-to-bell performance. I bailed to the ladies tee on the Liftline cliffs and opted to call it a day before I hurt myself.
4 thoughts on “Mad River Glen: All Options on the Table”
Micro 4/3 camera? Pics look sick . . .
Thanks! Actually, these are from my Samsung WB2000. I started shooting in RAW and doing better post processing using UFRaw/Gimp instead of auto adjusting JPEGs in Picasa or MS Live. The Olympus E-PL2 and pancake arrive tomorrow… I can’t WAIT to start shooting with it. WB2000 will be on back up duty for situations when I don’t want to take the nice camera with the expensive lens out.
Interestingly and ironically enough, the first picture came out the worst in JPEG and the best in RAW. I bracketed four shots at various settings. If I had went with the JPEG, I would have used a much worse photo with less contrast and horrible white balance which was the best of the JPEGs. The first shot above was the worst of the JPEGs but the best of the RAW shots and the best out of eight files. The snow comes out so much better in RAW, it is jaw dropping.
I thought the title was in reference to the next few weeks: All options open in destinations because I’m still holding to many paid vouchers and MRG is still going to be open.
I couldn’t think of a very good title. In all honesty, I wasn’t very motivated to even write the report (thus a day late). Though the voucher issue could be a good alternative meaning. Next week, skiing destinations will likely be prioritized based on which mountains will close next week versus stay open for at least another weekend.