Sunday River is awesome!

Today is our company's ski trip. This year we went to Sunday River in Maine, about 3 hours from us. This is my 4th time here and I went there with Sue just a couple of months ago. But this time I had an ambitious plan. Sunday River has green trails running down from two of its summits, and I wanted to take as many of them as possible.

So in the morning I took almost all the green and blue trails steaming out from Lift 2 as a warm up. Lift 2 is the most used left in Sunday River because it is located right outside the rental center and cafeteria. In the afternoon, I went up to the top of Spruce peak and then Jordan Bowl with a bunch of friends and came down along the greens. The mountains here in New England is no comparison with those in the Alps, but on the top of the mountains the view is awesome. The trails are easy and you can finally spend more time skiing than riding on the lift. The weather was perfect. Sunny, no clouds, not too cold, around -10degC. Just cold enough so that I didn't sweat. I only hope there could have been a thicker layer of new snow.

The lifts close at 4 pm. Only 20 minutes before that I found an awesome green trail that I missed in the morning. It is a branch half-way down from Left 2. The trail, called Spectator, runs right underneath Lift 2. It is very narrow, with the lift poles in the middle and flanked by trees. The slope itself is not steep but you can still go pretty fast. With the tight space I needed to shift my balance every another second to control my speed. With the lift running above your head it just feels so exciting. I managed to get on the lift before it closed and took another run down the Spectator. Awesome!


I could have stayed over the weekend and ski Saturday and Sunday, butI figured I should take it easy and not to disappoint my squash buddy on Monday. So I just skied for the day and I will get some rest over the weekend.

P.S. It was my 5th ski and the first time not falling even once. I am feeling more comfortable to bring my camera and take more pictures on my next ski trip.