Mount Snow - 1/27/2007

[jct]

Date Skied: Saturday January 27, 2007

Si Area: Mount Snow Vt.

Conditions: Packed Man Made, Man Made-powder atop

We got to Mt Snow at 11:30 today. We parked at Carinthia and waited a few minutes for half day tickets (at the clerk's suggestion). We skied a few runs at Carinthia then headed over to the main mountain. We did several blue runs on the main mountain. The trails were in excellent shape with plenty of snow. The lifts were mobbed. We skied back over to Carinthia for some lunch and stayed there for the rest of the afternoon. The blues were in good shape. Suprisingly the greens were completely skied-off down to boiler-plate. A good time was had by all!

[Euler]

I skied Mt. Snow on Sunday 1/28 and was surprised by how right you were that the "green" trails, esp. Long John/Deere Run are in much worse shape than the blues. The upper part of Long John seemed like a death trap for beginners, ice, boiler plate and far too crowded for safe skiing.

The rest of the mountain was great! We skied Upper canyon and Snowdance several times and thought those trails were in great shape.

[drjeff]

Originally Posted by Euler

I skied Mt. Snow on Sunday 1/28 and was surprised by how right you were that the "green" trails, esp. Long John/Deere Run are in much worse shape than the blues. The upper part of Long John seemed like a death trap for beginners, ice, boiler plate and far too crowded for safe skiing.

The rest of the mountain was great! We skied Upper canyon and Snowdance several times and thought those trails were in great shape.

Unfortunately, upper Long John from the summit on down to the top of Ridge has been a skating rink ever since the cold weather showed up a few weeks back. The way they've opend trails up (or haven't) has put a TON of skier/rider pressure on that run, and with the winds blowing often and all the traffic there, it been getting scraped early and often. This is where I think if they'd of opened Sunbrook earlier and also South Bowl, that many of the folks heading down Upper Long John looking of intermediate terrain would have headed eithet down South Bowl or back over the Sunbrook instead of headed for Ridge, thus taking alot of pressure off of Upper long John.

What they really need to do right now to get Upper Long John back to decent conditions, is now that Upper Deer Run is open (immediately to the left off of the Grand Summit Express) and it takes you down to basically the top of Ridge, is close down Upper Long john for 48 hours, blow the heck out of it fro 24 hours, let the new manmade sit for 24 hours and then groom it out