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Submitted by johnny2bad on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 12:53pm.

User Demographics

Age: 
34
Gender: 
Male
Ability: 
Advanced

Trip Specifics

Resort: 
Snow Summit
Start Date: 
7 Mar 2009
Duration in days: 
1
Hours: 
Day
Equipment: 
Snowboard
Overall rating: 
6
Primary snow surface: 
Granular
Secondary snow surfaces: 
Hardpack
Granular
Icy
Groomed
I loved: 
being on the snow
I hated: 
that it's not real fresh
Lift/trails closed: 
lift 5 at summit
Liftline waits: 
average
Quality of moguls: 
The quality of moguls on Off Chute at Summit was very very poor
Jumps/Rails: 
Bear the cool equipment, Summit has better natural jumps

We spent some time at both Bear and Summit on Saturday. The surface was in worse condition that last weekend. Both places had mostly machine groomed granular on top of some serious hard pack, that was icy early. I wonder, did they get a bit of rain last week?

Conditions softened throughout the day, but I don't think the temps hit last week's highs. The east side of summit remained mostly pleasant through the afternoon, never reaching the "mashed potato" state.

The crews up there are masters of the engineered surface; but without a natural refresher, I don't have high hopes for the surface in the near term.

Wish I had gotten up there

Submitted by spope on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 4:02pm.

Wish I had gotten up there this year.

I did, had a great time!

Submitted by Anonymous Skier (not verified) on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 4:05pm.

I did, had a great time!

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