Our ski weekends continue… This past weekend we were back to Bretton Woods. On Saturday the temp was literally 70 degrees, which was just nuts. The boys had been up since Thursday night, so we decided to take the day off from Skiing.
Month: February 2017
New Project Page – Pleasant St Deck
I just added a new project page for the replacement of my back deck at our old house on Pleasant St.
Sugarloaf Weekend 2017
This weekend we did our annual visit to the Coughlin’s cabin at Sugarloaf in Maine.
Sugarloaf is our overall favorite mountain to ski in new england. Granted there are a couple top mountains we haven’t been to yet (most notably Jay Peak and Sunday River, soon!) but so far this one is our fav.
The only problem with this mountain is the distance. It’s a good 4.5 hours (in good conditions) from our house. It’s about 30 miles from the Canadian border.
Traffic wasn’t too bad and we got there around 11pm on Friday night. Sugarloaf had been getting dumped on so conditions were set to be epic, some of the best ever!
When you realize your kid is a better skier than you…
So, Bretton Woods is now fully open for the season. As of today, they are 62/62 on trails and 28/35 on glades.
We’ve pretty much fully explored all the trails on the mountain and so now we are discovering the glades. This weekend we’ve tried our first double black diamond trails. These are the most challenging on the mountain. Not for their overall steepness, but for the combination of steep and obstructions (i.e. trees, rocks, and water).
Some of the more challenging ones we tried this weekend were:
- John Grave’s Glades – On the west mountain. A nice long glade run compared to the shorter runs on rosebrook.
- Hemlock – This thing was treacherous. Short but extremely steep with trees everywhere. I went down on my butt. Eli fell and hit his chin on his skis. Not doing this one again.
- Lazy Man – Even though this was is rated higher than hemlock, I think hemlock was actually more difficult. Both hemlock and lazy man are right next to each other.
- Roz’s – Not much of a glade, more like a chute that connects many of the rosebrook glades together. At the bottom of this run you had to navigate through pools of water on a narrow strip of a trail. One wrong move and you’d be soaked!
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