Berkshire East - 1/26/2006

[jct]

Thursday January 26th

Berkshire East

Packed & loose powder, windy and very cold!

We arrived at the mountain at 3:15 and skied till 7:00 P.M.

We skied Big Chief, Flying Cloud, Upper & Lower Competition, War Dance & Exhibition. All trails were in good shape depite the fact that Thursday is school race day.

Snow making was in progress on several trails.

 

[Joshua B]

Snow making was in progress on several trails.

Very good to hear. It's almost February and I was getting nervous about snowmaking this late in the season. I believe many places call it quits in February, and with the challenging weather so far...I was just worried.

 

[Zand]

If it gets cold enough in February, I wouldn't be suprised to see some areas crank it out till the end of the month. With all of the melting in January, there's probably a surplus of water and most areas probably haven't used up much of their snowmaking budget yet given the warm weather.