Another day on the Mt Hutt ski fields, we were both a tad sore from yesterday. It may have had something to do with not skiing for 15 months. Or maybe it was the spills Laura and I took while skiing yesterday. We awoke early to try and make the first chair in the morning. We were close, they had only been running for one half an hour by the time we skied into the lift lines. Our hope was that after grooming the snow would be a nice mix of the new snow from yesterday and some machine groomed granular (east coast slang for chopped up ice.) It turned out that the winds had blown most of the snow away, but at least there was little wind in the morning and the skiing was pretty good if you picked your lines correctly.
After lunch, things turned a bit nasty, the wind really picked up and this scored off the layer of snow leaving some icy patches. Not to mention that the snow whipped up in the wind was painful on your face and cold. We called it quits a bit after 3pm and headed back down the mountain towards the warm fire at the lodge and a hot cup of tea and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. One cool thing about Mt Hutt is they have an electric pass system, which logs how many times you ride up each lift. On their web site you can check the meters you have skied, we logged 15,288 meters over 2 days.
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