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Left at 4:30am and loaded the back of the van literally with rocks and heavy equipment (oh yeah and skis and chains)--







The chains turned out to be essential, I would not have made it past Lees-McCrae without them. I was among the first half dozen in the lot--









I bought a half day ticket with the idea of maybe doing the afternoon at Sugar, and got 2nd or 3rd chair -- some general lift shots--









Cold and windblown esp at the top--

















The conditions were an odd mix of deep windloaded powder with sections of thinly covered ice

But the Ice never lasted long until you were back in something fun--



























The wind would fill tracks back in within a couple of runs and it was a spectacular morning of just flying/busting through drifts and miniature wind lips





Hmm, I guess I got lost--













Some pictures from the base (first one is a bad photostitch)--

















Avery nice day but conditions at the top left me with little desire to scrape down the top of Sugar so I left at one o'clock; absolutely worth the drive and conditions returning were clear and calm--

sweet. that is all

Who's up to go tomorrow!

sick it looks like you skied my favorite line at beech

I've skiied Beech since 75 and I'm not sure I've ever seen it with that good of conditions. Looks like some areas out west right now. All you Beech haters can SIUYFA.

dangit nobody else ski it until sunday.

oh. my. lord. a powder day at beech. f work. my heart hurts. i was waiting and waiting for someone to put up a tr of today so i could live vicariously. WOW. WOW. just wow.

My head hurts too. I think snow will make it better.

the thing I couldn't capture was how much fun it was just flying and bouncing along the wind loaded stuff on the left of each run -- it was absolutely brilliant but not your usual kind of powder day (why would it be at Beech?)

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