jimme
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Jiminy Peak 3-17-04 Night
Even arriving at about 7:00 I got to park in lot two! No buses! No crowds! About 4" in the lot. (?) Maybe they plowed overnight.
Looking up at Ace, I could see it was pretty tracked up, but that was expected since it was an ovenight snow. As I got near the lift I was still looking for the advertised 10", but it looked like half that much at best. Maybe the wind blew it to Boston or is it typical marketing BS?
No doubt there was powder all over the mountain and the wind was not bad. You could see soft mounds of snow on all visible trails on the chair ride. Even Upper Exhibition looked like it had been open which may have been a first this season. You could see the rope was down at the entrance off Upper Whirlaway and it looked skied pretty well.
Made my usual first run to Ace, and West Way was in it's finest shape. From the point adjacent to Azelea Path to Upper Fox it was all "moglets" of nice soft powder. Even the virtually flat "football field" section was fun to ski. It gave this portion of the trail some nice charater. Ace was tracked out, but was forming soft bumps on the left and the snow pack was excellent.
Whitetail was sweet- on the right with lots of powdery bumps. North Glade was just as nice, and Lower Glade as well. My powder stash from L. Glade onto Merry Go Round was as deep as last Friday and had only three to four sets of tracks. From the skiers right where M-G-R cuts over The Foxes, there were a half-dozen patrollers and as many "crossed skis" on Fox. I could see they were working in the woods. They flagged me past, so I did not rubber-neck. I went back to that point several runs later and could see where someone went down, and hopefully missed the trees. The fall area was not too tighly tree'd, but they would have had to clear a few during the fall.
Grand Slam and the right side of Ace has some "ice pebbles" mixed in with the fresh causing me to think some grooming happened overnight. This was more the exception though, and not found on all the trails.
All the open trails were in great shape with very little scraping. You'd hit a patch that was scraped off, but it was occational.
After skiing the open night trails, I'd say there was about 8" of fresh settled snow at mid mountain. It was snowing when I arrived, and ligtly snowing when I left. Front Row!
Jimme
Even arriving at about 7:00 I got to park in lot two! No buses! No crowds! About 4" in the lot. (?) Maybe they plowed overnight.
Looking up at Ace, I could see it was pretty tracked up, but that was expected since it was an ovenight snow. As I got near the lift I was still looking for the advertised 10", but it looked like half that much at best. Maybe the wind blew it to Boston or is it typical marketing BS?
No doubt there was powder all over the mountain and the wind was not bad. You could see soft mounds of snow on all visible trails on the chair ride. Even Upper Exhibition looked like it had been open which may have been a first this season. You could see the rope was down at the entrance off Upper Whirlaway and it looked skied pretty well.
Made my usual first run to Ace, and West Way was in it's finest shape. From the point adjacent to Azelea Path to Upper Fox it was all "moglets" of nice soft powder. Even the virtually flat "football field" section was fun to ski. It gave this portion of the trail some nice charater. Ace was tracked out, but was forming soft bumps on the left and the snow pack was excellent.
Whitetail was sweet- on the right with lots of powdery bumps. North Glade was just as nice, and Lower Glade as well. My powder stash from L. Glade onto Merry Go Round was as deep as last Friday and had only three to four sets of tracks. From the skiers right where M-G-R cuts over The Foxes, there were a half-dozen patrollers and as many "crossed skis" on Fox. I could see they were working in the woods. They flagged me past, so I did not rubber-neck. I went back to that point several runs later and could see where someone went down, and hopefully missed the trees. The fall area was not too tighly tree'd, but they would have had to clear a few during the fall.
Grand Slam and the right side of Ace has some "ice pebbles" mixed in with the fresh causing me to think some grooming happened overnight. This was more the exception though, and not found on all the trails.
All the open trails were in great shape with very little scraping. You'd hit a patch that was scraped off, but it was occational.
After skiing the open night trails, I'd say there was about 8" of fresh settled snow at mid mountain. It was snowing when I arrived, and ligtly snowing when I left. Front Row!
Jimme
