Skiing Day Mountain

I forgot to write about when we skied around Day Mountain a couple of weeks ago, I think it was Jan. 17th. We had gotten a couple of inches of snow on top of some packed powder. It was a beautiful sunny Saturday so we decided to ski from Jordan Pond Gate Lodge (Signpost 16) east to the Day Mountain Bridge (That's interesting, I never noticed before that there were two Signposts there, 17 and 37). This is a section of carriage roads which never gets groomed. Conditions were excellent and we quickly arrived at the bridge. Then we had to decide whether to continue east to Bubble Pond, which is usually really fun because hardly anyone is ever there, and it is pretty flat with rolling hills. We never ski around Day Mountain because it's usually unskiable, with lots of foot and dog traffic. But that day it was totally pristine and we decided to do it. It was spectacular as you can see by the photo of Frank looking very stylish in his ski togs.

The skiing conditions were perfect for our waxless skis: ice with about an inch of powder on top. The distance from JP Gate Lodge to Day Mtn Bridge, then around Day Mountain and back was 5.3 miles and it took about 2 hours and 15 minutes.