Your Official 2005-06 Ski Season Breakdown Thread

Total of 11 trips this season for me:

Crotched (2)
Pats Peak (2)
Cranmore
Bretton Woods
Sunapee (3)
Waterville
Tenney

Definitely wish I was able to get out more, though...next year's plans will have to include some regular trips to a local area.

I have 22 days in so far with the season breakdown like this:

Killington, November 26th, 2005 - first day of the season with 6"+ of powder snow.
Killington, November 27th, 2005
Killington, November 28th, 2005
Killington, December 17th, 2005 - powder on Vetigo and Dreamaker.
Powder Ridge / Mount Southington January 2nd 2006 - manmade slop at Powder ridge.
Belleayre, January 7th, 2006 - Boot top powder, snowcat skiing and great glade skiing.
Camelback, January 13th, 2006 - Night skiing with corn snow and 50F + temperatures.
Blue Mountain, January 15th - recovery from a severe thaw, okay skiing with snowmaking.
Montage, January 16th, 2006 - good skiing on manmade packed powder.
Blandford, February 20th - Bluebird day with packed powder skiing - New area
Ski Plattekill - March 3rd - Deep powder snow, 12"+ with lots of fresh tracks:smile:
Ski Sundown - March 4th - night skiing with icy conditions and boilerplate in some spots.
Jiminy Peak - March 11th - Southern AZ outing, nice spring skiing with good company:smile:
Bolton Valley - March 17th - Night skiing for the first time in Vermont - New area
Jay Peak/Stowe(night) March 18th - Good skiing at Jay and 4"+ of powder for night skiing
Bolton Valley March 19th - Deep light powder 12"+ best day of the year, many first tracks
Belleayre March 25th - Suprise 3" snowfall with fresh tracks on several runs.
Belleayre April 1st- Spring conditions, with rain at times.
Sugarloaf April 14th - One of my top 5 days at the loaf, bluebird skies, great snow.
Saddleback April 15th - Firm conditions, with occasional rain and sunshine.
Sugarloaf April 16th - Closing day, very cold with light snow and rock hard snow.

Highlights of the year where:

Starting out the season with powder skiing on the first day at Killington.
Best Thanksgiving skiing at Killington since 1998
Snowcat skiing at Belleayre with my son.
Skiing at Blandford for the first time.
Powder skiing with Warren at Plattekill.
Skiing in the glades with my son at Jay Peak - my sons first black glades.
Night skiing in powder conditions at Stowe.
Night skiing for the first time in Vermont at Bolton which I had never skied before.
Deep powder runs at Bolton in 12"+ of powder with my son.
A suprise powder day at Belleayre last weekend.

I'm currently at 26 days, broken down as follows:

Sugarbush - 20
Mad River Glen - 3
Stratton - 2 (both FREE!!)
Okemo - 1

I expect to get 3-4 more days in before the end of the season (2-3 at Sugarbush; 1 at Killington) but we shall see. My goal was to break 30 and I may get there, weather depending.

While the season was somewhat of a disappointment snow and weather-wise, I still got in some great skiing. I hit quite a few powder days (6 or 7) and had great fun although I agree that if we had gotten more snow and had better weather, it would have been an excellent year. I just tend to be a glass half-full kind of guy.

11/25: Wachusett opening day: Great powder early on
11/26: Wachusett (night [the rest will be night]): Crowded Conifer, great powder to sides
11/28: Wachusett: Wet Snow, no people, and FOG
12/8: Wachusett: The night before the storm, great PP
12/13: Wachusett: Tons of snowmaking, nice manmade powder
12/16: Wachusett: Frozen Granular, nice for turns
12/19: Wachusett: One last good night before the 2 "hell months"
12/28: Mount Snow: Day from hell, worst day of the season
1/3: Wachusett: 12" of brand new powder!
1/6: Wachusett: Extremely crowded, but nice PP
1/10: Wachusett: Last night before warm-up, good snow
1/13: Wachusett: 60 degree night
1/16: Sunapee: Excellent PP, temps below 0
1/21: Waterville (new area): Spring Conditions, 60 degrees
1/22: Waterville: Hell frozen over, all windblown
1/23: Waterville: Snow falling, 8" of powder
1/27: Wachusett: Another very crowded night
2/10: Wachusett: Comeback from fractured wrist, pretty good night
2/15: Wachusett: Spring conditions, 20 minute lines early
2/22: Jiminy: Skiied off very quickly
2/24: Wachusett (Overnight): 12 straight hours through the night, nice snow
3/1: Wachusett: Excellent packed manmade, best Wawa day all year
3/3: Wachusett: A little bit more crowded than 3/1, but similar conditions
3/6: Wachusett: Starting to lose snow for the spring
3/18: Smuggs (new area): Good snow
3/19: Smuggs: 2' of new powder!
3/26: Mad River Glen (new area): Very springy, bare lower 1/2
3/26: Sugarbush South: Castlerock in spring!
3/27: Sugarbush North (new area): Cold and Windy morning
3/27: Sugarbush South: Best spring day ever!

Still to come:

4/2-4/3: Killington: Last days of the year, BMMC!

Total Days (at Wa): 31 (19)

My new top 10 ski areas:

1. Sugarbush
2. Mad River Glen
3. Smuggs
4. Okemo
5. Cannon
6. Sunapee
7. Killington
8. Loon
9. Waterville
10. Wachusett

List Your Ski Days

Here's my list:
12/07 Bolton Valley, Vt.
12/11 Bretton Woods
12/14 Cannon
12/18 Cannon
12/26 Cannon (rain)
01/03 Cannon
01/06 Bretton Woods (night)
01/10 Cannon
01/13 Bretton Woods (night)
01/17 Cannon
01/20 Bretton Woods (night) was a sub. for missing racer
01/23 Bretton Woods
01/24 Cannon
01/27 Bretton Woods (night)
01/28 Cannon, was part of Cannons FIRST "all-girl" lift crew
01/31 Cannon
02/07 Cannon
02/08 Bretton Woods
02/11 Cannon (AZ outing! Well met, AZer's!)
02/14 Cannon (attempting to salvage the day)
02/23 Cannon
02/28 Cannon
03/01 Cannon (with my friend from Ocean City, NJ. Got frostbite this day)
03/03 Bretton Woods (night)
03/05 Tenney Mountain (I love that slow chair)
03/06 Bretton Woods (with my 70-year-old Dad, who still kicks ass)
03/07 Cannon
03/10 Bretton Woods (night, wet and icy, the last night ski, THANK GOD)
03/20 Bretton Woods
03/27 Attitash (saw sunshine, first time in weeks)
Gonna ski Cannon tomorrow, 4/2, Cannons last day of the season!
And will probably ski Mt. Wash a couple times this spring.
I am pregnant, so it is time to wrap it up anyway, my baby is due in November, so I timed it perfectly to not interfere with next ski season!
Even with the lack of snow, it was a great year.
See ya on the hiking trails!

Congratulations, well planned.

I think this is the first year I spent as much time out west as east, which isn't good.
Got a few days in at Hunter early on around December
4 days at Snowbasin and Powder Mountain Utah in Jan. then a few at Hunter
5 days at Vail and Beaver Creek in Feb, few more at Hunter and Belleayre, 1 at Whiteface.
3 days at Alta and Snowbird in March, then 1 more at Hunter tommorow.
Pretty below my average of 35. Kept raining on my days off. Might be able to squeeze a few more, just don't know where.

Stowe: 7 Days - 5 in December, 1 in January, 1 in March
Sugarloaf: 1 in January
Sunday River: 1 in March
Shawnee Peak: 1 in Feb, 2 in March

All things considered, I'm glad I got out as much as I did. Certainly less than the twenty or so that I've been averaging the past few seasons. But, considering I didn't have a pass anywhere and my wallet took a beating moving from Burlington to Portland on January 1st, I'm overall quite happy.

Now that I'm in Maine and about to purchase an All for One, I expect my total for next season to be up around 25 for next year which hopefully includes a planned 5 day trip to Salt Lake City.

my season was cut short at 10
2 at killington
1 at magic
2 at mt snow
1 hunter
4 sundown.

best day was hunter. had an awesome bump course set up. Sundown (noreaster) was fun (noreaster) each time. Magic was a quasi powder day. took a ton of core shots and some rough body shots too. mt snow was my downfall. killington was what it always is. Never anything great but a ton of it.

Wachusett: 19
Waterville: 3
Smuggs: 2
Killington: 2
Mount Snow: 1
Sunapee: 1
Jiminy: 1
Sugarbush: 1 1/2
MRG: 1/2

Total: 31

November: 3
December: 5
January: 9
February: 5
March: 7
April: 2 (Hey, another one! First time I've skiied more than one day in April.

First Lift: Polar Exrpess
First Trail: Conifer
Last Lift: K1
Last Trail: Great Northern

Highlights:

2 Powder Days: 1/23 at Waterville and 3/19 at Smuggs (as well as a few smaller powder days at Wa)
Great manmade snow at Sunapee on MLK
New Areas: Waterville, Smuggs, MRG, anf Sugarbush North
12 hours overnight at Wa on 2/24
Nice spring weekend in the MRV
BMMC at K! Great closing weekend

Next Year's Goals:
Ski before Thanksgiving
40 Days
Ski after April 10

zowi420 said:

I am pregnant, so it is time to wrap it up anyway, my baby is due in November, so I timed it perfectly to not interfere with next ski season!

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Congratulations and all the best!

I'm at 120 now. I'm planning on 121 tomorrow, a possible powder day.

Then I'm done for the season.

More season left... Just not more me.

26 Days
25 at Sugarbush, First day Dec 3rd - last April 1st
1 day Shawnee Peak

Update: Up to 17 days. Also just figured out that only 2 of those were on the weekends.:-o I wonder how days of school I have missed this year.:lol:

I always like these threads. 71 know. Plan on Sat an sunday. BBQ and looking at snow no rush no bugs no lawn raking. I'll end up finishing the season a week earlier than last year. Bw staying open has made it a nice finish. I wasn't cheated.

Greg can you edit me on this? I was 60 to 70. I have made the 70-80 and will finish there. Thankx in advance.

Upto 44, it'll be tough, but I would still like to increase this number.

2 Cannon
3 Jay
3 Solitude
1 Alta
1 Snowbird
34 Killington

Bob R said:

Greg can you edit me on this? I was 60 to 70. I have made the 70-80 and will finish there. Thankx in advance.

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Done. Nice!

finished with 45. about average.

killington 38
stowe 1
colorado 6 (vail, beaver creek, keystone, breck, a-basin, mary jane)

Thankx Greg.

Message from BW

Hello everyone,

I don't usually get on forums, but I felt this was important. Here is what I just went out with on the web and on our snow reports:

THIS JUST IN: OUR LAST DAY HAS BEEN BUMPED UP!!

We are shutting down for the season tomorrow, Friday, May 5th, so come on up make some of those final turns of the year! As promised, we will be offering FREE SKIING ALL DAY!! Enjoy a BBQ on the deck from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. After visiting us on the mountain on Friday, head to the Mount Washington Golf Course and enjoy 2-for-1 golf with a valid lift ticket from that day!