WWF-VT
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Don't confuse "open" with a trail that you would want to ski.
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Saturday after Christmas
- Thread starter rocks860
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Don't confuse "open" with a trail that you would want to ski.
St. Bear
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If I were skiing this weekend, I'd head someplace with a southern exposure.
Tin
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Because of a hard surface or lack of coverage?
rocks860
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Well there's only one in vermont...
Cannonball
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Cannon wasn't terrible at all today. Loose sugar snow, sun, zero people. I can think of worse things to do with a day.
ss20
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Going to Butternut Sunday. They're holding steady at 18/22 trails. Warm temps and showers should keep the crowds away and make the snow soft.
Cannonball
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That is am undeniable truth
ScottySkis
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No where with no crowds in PA soft snow anyone else wants meet up at Elk tommorow
WWF-VT
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A little bit of both today at Sugarbush. I don't mind thin cover but I am not a fan of bullet proof snow.
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And what would that be?
Bromley
rocks860
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So was sugarbush not good today at all?
WWF-VT
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Groomers were Ok. I skied Rim Run, Elbow, Cruiser and Crackerjack at Mt Ellen. They are blowing snow on Rim Run and Cruiser has snowmaking whales that should get groomed tonight. At Lincoln Peak Snowball and Spring Fling were better than expected. The snow guns were going on Jester and Organgrinder. Birch Run had huge whales that are expected to be groomed. The snow has dried out and the temps are colder so there will be an aggressive grooming plan going into this weekend. I avoided any natural snow trails. Castlerock chair was spinning but I saw no one up there.
medfordmike
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In the same category as honest this was on Cannon's Facebook page yesterday "OK, so...if we had a dome, we'd have closed it. But we don't. What we do have are snowmakers and groomers in the house firing it up and grooming it up. Our natural snow trails and glades will likely drop off the map for now, but we plan to have 33 trails to start the day on Friday from top to bottom and that number will likely grow into next week as favorable snowmaking temps settle in. We also have a sweet ticket deal for you this weekend".
Skied Wildcat today a slow start with only the Tomcat chair running , they opened Quad after coffee lynx skied pretty good,little choppy on steeper sections, Natural snow trails still had coverage for the most part, but was the surface was like the moon only harder. they were grooming Catapult and Bobcat today. I am sure it will ski much better tomorrow.
rocks860
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Well it looks like this is where I'm headed tomorrow since it doesn't sound like any place else is any better. If anyone else is there I'll be wearin Orange pants and a green jacket with a red helmet
Any sign of guns firing Brad? For as quick of a start Wildcat got this year, it seems like the snowmaking momentum slowed a bit in December.
They were working on the lynx guns,Nothing running as of 3;30, they had huge whales on Catapult, Bobcat, started to blow on Gondiline, before rain , It will not take much to get the mountain in good shape with a little cold weather and mother nature providing some fluff to the natural snow trails , the rain was most unfortunate, it was skiing like early February before that.
Oh good. I must have missed the snow reports outlining all those trails getting gun love. Seemed like they were stuck on Lynx, Polecat and Upper Catapult still. May make it up there Sunday yet.
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