Jiminy Peak - 4/1/2007

[Greg]

Date(s) Skied: Sunday, 4/1/07, 9:45 am - 2:40 pm

Resort or Ski Area: Jiminy Peak, Hancock, MA

Conditions: Corn, slush, spring conditions, some edgeable ice. Temps starting near 40 and climbing to 50. Mostly sunny early to cloudy later.

Trip Report: Headed up to Jiminy with my father- and brother-in-law. Had a great spring skiing day. Jiminy is actually in pretty good shape with most of the trails having very good coverage. There were a few thin and narrow areas most notably West Way by the cliff and the very top of Whirlaway and Jericho.

Bumps on The Mogul Thing which were actually pretty fun and legitimate small bumps. Skier's right of the Foxes had the best bumps on the mountain. Lower Fox in particular had pretty tight and consistent lines. Lots of glare ice on the top of Upper. Some ice troughs here and there, but edgeable. I also found a great line right under the Q1 almost top to bottom on Whitetail up over the groomer lip. Jericho had some very nice snow skier's left. I also hit skier's right on the ungroomed. Thin but fun. Wild Turkey has a ton of snow.

The corn effect happened shortly after 11 am and that's when the rope on Cutter was dropped. Fun run, but widely spaced bumps. More like sweeping push piles. The bumps on the Foxes were much better. Jiminy still has a ton of snow and I had fun skiing up and over the groomer lip on the groomed runs. The mountain should easily make the middle of the month if they cat do some patchwork.

All in all a great spring day at Jiminy and an awesome way to kick off April!

[Newpylong]

Is next weekend their last of the season ?

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Newpylong

Is next weekend their last of the season ?

They're closing midweek and plan to reopen on Friday. Given the cool-down later this week and the amount of snow I saw today, I would expect next weekend to also be very good. Besides Hunter, it looks like Jiminy may be the only game in town this far south. Get at it folks!

[Hawkshot99]

Jiminey has to shut down on the 7th. They need to cut the power so that they can start the installation of their windmill off to the side of west way.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Hawkshot99

Jiminey has to shut down on the 7th. They need to cut the power so that they can start the installation of their windmill off to the side of west way.

Where did you hear this? Their Web site simply says, " Jiminy will not operate midweek, Monday through Thursday this week and will re-open on Friday, April 6th for weekend operations." I would think Easter Sunday would be their last day.

[ALLSKIING]

Sweet Greg..Happy to see mogul thing has some bumps again. I thought Jiminy was open until the 15th.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by ALLSKIING

Sweet Greg..Happy to see mogul thing has some bumps again. I thought Jiminy was open until the 15th.

I thought so too, but I also didn't expect them to close midweek this week. Gotta just wait and see. Yeah, TMT had okay small bumps. The moguls on Foxes were much better. The bumps on Lower Fox were as close to perfect as you get at Jiminy. The line right under the Q1 was fun too, but it was only a single line and you had to hop over the groomer lip right at the top to get to it, but once it corned up: sweet! There was a huge ice patch on the groomed upper section of Whitetail so it was a nice way to avoid dealing with that. The groomer lip skier's left on Riptide was awesome too. Once that all corned up you could launch over it and drop down 4 or 5 feet to the edge of the woods and then turn back up and pop back onto the trail proper. Being creative and finding interesting lines made Jiminy a lot of fun yesterday. I almost jumped onto the residual snow under the six pack to the left of the fence on Lower Exhibition. I saw a snowboarder do it, but too much visibility there for me to try it...

[Newpylong]

I poached Upper Ex last weekend from the top, now that was sketchy. Saw a few come in from North Glade but someone else and I did it from the top. You had to basically make the 10-15 foot jump over the backside of the catwalk that comes in halfway down, because the back side of that was all grass. The Snow was awesome though.. mmmm corn.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Newpylong

I poached Upper Ex last weekend from the top, now that was sketchy. Saw a few come in from North Glade but someone else and I did it from the top. You had to basically make the 10-15 foot jump over the backside of the catwalk that comes in halfway down, because the back side of that was all grass. The Snow was awesome though.. mmmm corn.

Upper Ex was all melted out (well, I could have linked a line with a small bit of walking, but certainly not worth the risk). The triple never spun so I didn't see Liftline. I wish I was able to ski those runs this year. Just didn't happen...