Whiteface Mtn, NY: 4/9/08

first view of Whiteface
The Money Shot

After blowing out of work at 2:30 yesterday and driving to our place in North River, I was excited and anxious to get a shot at The Slides. It was not to be. We asked whoever we could find: what is up with the slides? Nobody knew, or would say.

After a few runs on the summit quad, ski patrol at the top gave us the bad news… Slides are closed FOR THE SEASON.

James, Steve, Patrick and I made the best of it. I didn’t look at the map much so I’m not sure of the names of a lot of what we did. But here is what I do know: Slightly overcast but somehow sunny… things were corning up nicely by 9:58 when we loaded onto the facelift. Hit Upper Skyward, Cloudspin and some terrain off Little Whiteface.

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