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Garnet Hill, NY: 12/19/08

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I looked at the radar this morning and decided a 9am departure would be significantly easier than my usual 2pm vanishing act. Most of our staff was either coming in late or working from home anyway, due to the weather. I had a meeting that I postponed and one that I moved up. I was out of there by 9:30.

Driving in a Snowstorm

It was sleeting LOUD in the flatlands, calm and dry in the Lower Hudson Valley and snowing north of Albany. As I got to Glens Falls it was borderline blizzard. By the time I got to the Hudson in North River it was still snowing hard. This was on the porch since last Sunday, some from Wednesday, some from today:

Snow on Porch

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Tagged: Adirondacks, Garnet Hill, Nordic Skiing, Powder2 Comments

Burnt Ridge Mountain

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Burnt Ridge MountainI wanted to see how hard it really was to get over to Burnt Ridge Mountain. I did the now well-known routine: Twister to Twister Glade to Echo and Gully, then bomb it.

I counted my skating strokes. Twenty to get over the first rise and 20 to get over the second. I think I had 5 double polls too. I put another 20 skates in on the way down to the chair…but it wasn’t mandatory. 40 skate strokes and I was there.

And it turns out coming back is really easy. Hedges, into the trees and up the North. No skating at all if you find the right spot.

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Props to Gore Mountain

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The mountain was beautifully managed this weekend. Gore made snow all weekend. And they opened up new terrain, as they could, on both manmade and natural bases.

Both Saturday and Sunday had 8 lifts and 40 trails. Patrol was helpful in many ways. They treated Saturday almost like it was a holiday, bringing new stuff online every hour or so.

It felt like they were allowing us to help groom the mountain, by letting us to pack down all the untracked, before the warm up.

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