Much to my complete delight, only The Single ran on Friday. Pretty rare is the day when there is no line for The Single for first chair but things are backing up pretty far on the Sunnyside Double. Much of the Sunnyside can be reached from The Single via Broadway to Easy Way, but all the steeper stuff off the ridge was virgin untracked with the total three day accumulation, just begging for some tracks.

Oh

My

Goodness

Boot to knee deep untracked on Panther for my first run, only patrol had tracks in front of mine for the section next to Gazelle. Then into the woods which were surprisingly untracked well below Easy Way, stuff that I had expected would have gotten nailed on Friday. Fine by me! Next up was Partridge, and it seemed obvious that the trees were going to be the berries, so four more off the Double into the trees. Holy Crap!!! It was blue bird skis with trees caked in white. Skiing under a canopy of brilliant white and on top of two feet of light powder was simply amazing, very special. Definitely my best day ever at Mad River Glen.

My legs were killing me after the big powder day on Friday at Jay. I knew today would not be a repeat open to close performance. So I headed up The Single for some trees I wanted to hit.

OH YEA! Found some amazing lines completely untracked with superb snow. Somebody pinch me?!? I repeated this after lunch time for my last run around 1:30pm and still found crazy go nuts knee deep untracked.

While this weekend will not offer up the best day of ski this season nor the deepest individual days, it may just be the best overall weekend of the entire season. The powder is light and deep, there are no crowds, the temperature is cold enough for powder but not too cold, wind is not bad, untracked three days in a row, etc. I could go on. The best three day weekend of the season is happening now and most people are too busy cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, or playing golf to notice.

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