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Although Whitecap Mountains are located in Wisconsin it's still part of the "Big Snow" ski area that comprises the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the norther tip of Wisconsin. We visited this mountain first because Mark read that it has received a LOT of snow over the past few days and it was the closest ski area to the hotel we stayed at.

The mountain (or actually three modest sized hills) was several miles off of Highway 2, the main artery in the area. The road was narrow, hilly and covered in snow and ice. Driving was tricky and needed my full attention. Just finding the resort was tricky as the map on the brochure was just adequate. The sign in front was also tiny so if I didn't see another car pull in I may not have given it a second look.

That seems to be a matter of course at this ski area. The runs are very poorly marked and the map is difficult to read as they try to show both sides of the mountains on one map. We accidentally found ourselves on a black diamond run thinking we were on a blue because the signs were so hard to find and understand.

It was still a good place to warm up. The runs were mostly pretty easy. The one thing that did annoy us a little is that once you get to the area that has the most intermediate runs the only way to get back to the runs that will get you back to the lodge are to take this narrow spur. It's very scenic and all but mostly very flat and parts are slightly uphill. It was impossible to get enough momentum to make it without unstrapping.

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Lily's really excited that there was fresh snow overnight.
Would you spot this sign from the road in a blizzard?
Prepping in the parking lot with the slopes in the background.

How do you work this crazy thing?
It's like riding a bike, you never really forget.

Lily and Mark trying to make it down a fairly steep run.
Ok, Mark is making some progress.
Just about there.

Nice path among the trees we took to get back to the lodge at the end of the day.
It was pretty flat so we needed to unstrap our boards.

Lily giving mysap.com some free advertising.

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