Magic Mountain Conditions

ROFL palm = bumps

Super hospitality sweet tour I got

Love this place.

wow today was special at magic. 2 days after the storm. much lighter then the cement i have been pushing around lately. genuine powder

Harvey wrote

ROFL palm = bumps

Super hospitality sweet tour I got

Love this place.

Harvey, if palms=bumps, I'm even more excited to hit the beach tomorrow.

When I lived in Boston prior to moving back to Syracuse, Magic was one of my favorite places to ski. Old school vibe, great terrain. Very stoked to make the pilgrimage tomorrow.

Today was a hugely fun place with a ton of snow. It almost doesn't get any better.

Happy to see you got the goods Harv. I'll be back tomorrow and Sunday to get some more. Now you know why I keep going there...

I think this is me Thursday. (Swiped pic from Do work from tgr)

Nice!

That is so much fun.

scottski63 wrote

I think this is me Thursday. (Swiped pic from Do work from tgr)

That looks like some Utah fluff!

Those pics in the TGR Magic thread are incredible.  (Including the ones of you Harvey...is that your biggest drop ever?).   They were so impressive that I was forced to respond to the thread for my first post ever on TGR despite the fact that I registered 10 years ago!  D'OH!

That's funny, Marc. I registered over there a year or so back and I haven't posted yet either. Not sure why

Yeah, that is funny. I suppose maybe its because it's not the most touchy feely place out on the intrawebs, but can have lots of good information.  

today was the best day i have ever had at magic. go to magic tomorrow. it will be the best $29 you have ever spent

Took your advice and headed up to Magic - not on Wednesday but on Thursday.  Met my brother in law (MA) up there and wow what a treat - Harvey's trip blog must have put some kind of spell on that place.  A ski patroller came up to us and said "hey guys, just wanted to let you know there's an easy 8" of fresh up on the top"!  Good sign when the locals share the goods freely.

What we didn't know that this 8" was on top of another barely skied 15" from the day before.  First 4-5 runs were pow on pow bliss.  Soft moguls were softer, troughs were knee deep and not a scraping sound to be heard anywhere.  This was on the east side of the mountain as the west side had not yet been cleared by Ski Patrol.  Then that opened up and it was more of the same although a notch up in challenge - big moguls covered by 6-20" of snow.

After a leisurely lunch - tasty and affordable, we headed back out to find some glades.  The place is loaded with them - found a nice one off of one of the east-side runs and headed in.  Snow was literally knee deep!



Two things we appreciated about Magic Mtn - 1) The whole mountain can be skied from one lift and 2) the chairs are the slower fixed-grip type. The skiing at Magic can be fairly technical (and tiring) at times and the rest between runs made for a more pleasant day.  Only down side is that the chairs are small/narrow - got whacked on the calves, back, arm, helmet until I finally figured out how to load the damn thing LOL!  People must have been smaller in the 70's.

All of this for $29.

Sweet report, nice!

That was the whole point of my TR ... the "locals" are awesome.

No doubt the one "condition" that is constant is the community at Magic. We want you to love our mountain as much as we love our mountain. I've taken strangers on tours after seeing them look at the map wondering where to go. Some of my good friends were newcomers that I met on the slopes and helped find more of what they were looking for. I recently redirected one father and his son as they were about to take the track out of bounds to Timber Ridge instead of Betwixt / Whiteout. And on March 8, with 30"+ of fresh up top, my buddy Larry and I managed to turn one skier's day around.

Larry and I did our first run and my skis were feeling sticky so I went in to apply some Zardoz. While he was waiting, he took this picture:



The young woman in the picture, looking somewhat lost and uncertain, asked if I knew where there was a bunny slope she could try. Her boyfriend had ditched her to go ski with his buddies and left her with some skis she had never tried to figure things out on her own. She hadn't skied in years and was afraid to go up to the top since she didn't know what she would find there. The Nelson Learning Center was buried in 2' of snow, no way that was going to work. I convinced her that there was a gentle way down from the top and that Larry and I would show her. So Samantha and I rode up together, I assured her that she was not going to have to ski Red Line, she and Larry skied down together and, as you can see, she had a good time doing so:



No reason that anyone should have had a bad day at Magic Mountain Ski Area that epic ski day and I'm glad we were able to save hers. Now maybe she dumps the boyfriend and increases her number of good days in the future.

GetAmped wrote

Great shot.

You working this weekend or see you tomorrow GA?

I'll be at Magic on Sunday. Just finished up the NY Tech Valley FIRST Regional Robotics Competition at RPI in Troy NY. Great event and I was the DJ this year as well as coordinating crowd control from the A/V table. I also sit on the Planning Committee and host and program the web site:

http://www.techvalleyfirst.org/

One of the few things that will keep me from skiing on a Saturday in March.

Sunday afternoon was sunny, temps in the high teens with great snow conditions and cover everywhere. Sorcerer still had soft, crushable bumps all down the left side and the trees provided plenty of soft turns.

Harvey and I passed like ships in the night on the deck as I was heading to Red and he was heading home. It's okay though. He's hooked and we know he can't help but continue to head out to our little bit of paradise in Southern VT

I'm thinking maybe we should swap McCauley into the Magic Triangle since Hickory seems to be retired.

GetAmped would have to approve such a change.