Great Day Skiing!
Posted On Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at at 10:23 AM by MTB ManSunday my wife and I went skiing for free courtesy Warren Miller.
We went to Windham mountain here in the Catskills of upstate NY, one of our favorite hills.
It wasn't too cold, beautiful, sunny day, snow conditions perfect ... and a weekend. That means lots of people!
We started out with a couple of short, easy runs to get warmed up. Then went to the top of the left side of the mountain as you face the lifts and rode "Wanderer" a green trail, nice and long but with one tricky spot, a steep spot with a 90° turn at the bottom, very bumpy with lots of ice!
Everybody was sort of jammed up there eyeing the slope trying to figure out a line.
We did that one a few times, took lunch and then hit the top of the main mountain which we had never done before. There is a blue intermediate trail from there called "Upper Wraparound" that was just great. The trails were nice and wide. The snow was almost perfect except for one spot that was getting progressively more icy as the day went on. That combined with the large number of skiers made it a little hairy and eventually we quit where we would have continued on a day with smaller crowds.
Here are a couple of pics:
