Mount Snow 3-16-06

loafer89 · Mar 16, 2007, 3:53 PM

Area skied: Mount Snow, V.T.

Date skied: March 16th, 2007 from 10:30am - 2:30pm.

Surface conditions: teeth chattering frozen granular, loose granular, limited packed powder.

My son and I got a late start to the day because the cold weather and snow freeze up did not make me want to rush up to ski this morning.

We started off the day with a ride up the Nitro Express and with Titanium being closed and having large bare spots we skied down Long John/Deer Run to the Grand Summit Express and down Committed which had a plethora of ice cookies and to Snowdance which had more bare areas than snow.

We skied down River Run to inspect the North Face, but Free Fall looked nasty even after being groomed, so we past on it and skied South Bowl/Meadow.

We stopped to warm up and eat lunch at 12:45pm when it started to snow very lightly, but due to the very cold temperature (17F) the snow flakes where tiny and hardly did much to improve the skiing when we stopped at 2:45pm.

Newpylong · Mar 16, 2007, 7:43 PM

Yeah I assumed today was just not a good day.... melting temps then a freeze-down. Rough.

loafer89 · Mar 17, 2007, 6:57 PM

Yesterday was grey and finger numbingly cold, so I only took this one picture of Snowdance to illustrate the generally thin conditions found on the mountain:

Grass skiing anyone?

Newpylong · Mar 18, 2007, 4:24 PM

Lol, wow what a change from today...

tcharron · Mar 21, 2007, 8:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by loafer89

Yesterday was grey and finger numbingly cold, so I only took this one picture of Snowdance to illustrate the generally thin conditions found on the mountain:

Grass skiing anyone?

Holy crap those trails are wide.

JohnGD33 · Mar 21, 2007, 8:51 PM

Was the cover that bad? I am going up this weekend should I bail out and go to killington?

Newpylong · Mar 21, 2007, 9:24 PM

This was before the storm!

Mar 16, 2007, 3:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
loafer89 Sugarloaf Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Coventry, C.T Posts: 3,551	Mount Snow 3-16-06 Area skied: Mount Snow, V.T. Date skied: March 16th, 2007 from 10:30am - 2:30pm. Surface conditions: teeth chattering frozen granular, loose granular, limited packed powder. My son and I got a late start to the day because the cold weather and snow freeze up did not make me want to rush up to ski this morning. We started off the day with a ride up the Nitro Express and with Titanium being closed and having large bare spots we skied down Long John/Deer Run to the Grand Summit Express and down Committed which had a plethora of ice cookies and to Snowdance which had more bare areas than snow. We skied down River Run to inspect the North Face, but Free Fall looked nasty even after being groomed, so we past on it and skied South Bowl/Meadow. We stopped to warm up and eat lunch at 12:45pm when it started to snow very lightly, but due to the very cold temperature (17F) the snow flakes where tiny and hardly did much to improve the skiing when we stopped at 2:45pm. __________________ Ski School - A place where novices are turned into menaces.

Mar 17, 2007, 6:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
loafer89 Sugarloaf Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Coventry, C.T Posts: 3,551	Yesterday was grey and finger numbingly cold, so I only took this one picture of Snowdance to illustrate the generally thin conditions found on the mountain: Grass skiing anyone? __________________ Ski School - A place where novices are turned into menaces.

Mar 21, 2007, 8:51 PM	#6 (permalink)
JohnGD33 Tuckerman Ravine Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 179	Was the cover that bad? I am going up this weekend should I bail out and go to killington? __________________ When it snows you just gotta go!

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Mar 16, 2007, 7:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
Newpylong Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 898	Yeah I assumed today was just not a good day.... melting temps then a freeze-down. Rough.

Mar 18, 2007, 4:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
Newpylong Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 898	Lol, wow what a change from today...

Mar 21, 2007, 9:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
Newpylong Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 898	This was before the storm!