Jay: 11/17/07

[riverc0il]

Sick. Jay under reported totals. I was submerging my pole more than halfway in the woods (yes, woods). Even in the trail, boot deep was the rule when the day started with deeper shots on occasion. Jay is reporting 16" for the storm total but that was the absolute bare minimum and then it snowed all day to boot. I would estimate a two day total of 20"+. Unreal. I am one sore puppy today. Can't wait for more tomorrow. Nhski has some video of today, can't wait to see some pictures flying through the air.

First face shot of the season today, nuff' said.

 

[riverc0il]

Nhski:

Nhski:

Full Report and Photo Gallery

Unreal.

I neglected to mention in my report that I skied some of the most perfect packed powder bumps today on Kitzbeheul. Just crazy cool feeling soft packed powder bumps that just ripped. Not that I spent much time skiing bumps today! but they were worth a mention.

 

[snoseek]

Very jealous right now. good work, do whatever it takes to get back up there.

 

[riverc0il]

It is my pass mountain so it won't take much arm twisting to get me up there again tomorrow.

 

[ccskier]

Son of a b, I am jealous. I did go out on the boat and pull the mooring today, had to go thigh deep in 48degree water not snow. Looks like the best opening day in years.

 

[JD]

J WAS sick yesterday, and Stowe was fabulous today as well. Truely truely truely epic november opener. Truely.

 

[nhski]

Great first day.

How do you embed the video into the post instead of it being a link?

 

[riverc0il]

Holy crap. Surreal, I still can't believe it watching the vid. Time to head up for more.

 

[roark]

drools on keyboard

 

[snowmonster]

Wow! I can't believe that's from opening day! If this holds up, it'll be an amazing season there.

 

[wa-loaf]

Jeeze, aside from a little brush sticking up you'd think it was mid-season!

 

[Greg]

Thanks for the great report, pics and vid, guys. Good stuff. Different world up there, for sure. Crazy.

Now, what's up with the chipmunk?

 

[bvibert]

Looks sick up there!

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Thats amazing, like Greg said people in SNE are worrying about if theres gonna be top to bottom skiing and then you see a video like that it really is a different world up there.

 

[severine]

Jeeze, aside from a little brush sticking up you'd think it was mid-season!

I was thinking the same thing! All the while drooling over all that beautiful snow!

 

[riverc0il]

Thanks for the great report, pics and vid, guys. Good stuff. Different world up there, for sure. Crazy.

Now, what's up with the chipmunk?

That was from last weekend's trip report. Met him on the summit. Usually is a different world up there.

If this holds up, it'll be an amazing season there.

As opposed to if it doesn't hold up? :lol: It will be an amazing season regardless, but if this holds out as a base we will be looking good for December, that is for sure.

Four runs today in six hours today, used the lift three times. Some people wouldn't even count that as a day, but untracked boot deep powder for four runs is better than packed powder for a number in the teens.

Suffice to say, Jay was pretty good today too:

 

[thetrailboss]

I don't think there are any complaints from folks up here....except that the weekend was too darn short...

 

[from_the_NEK]

WOW. :-o I knew there was a lot of snow kicking around the northern VT mtns this weekend, but WOW that was more than I expected. MeanwhiIe, I was stuck building stairs in my new house.
Jay actually closed the mountain down until Thursday this week. They probably want to hammer the mtn with snowmaking while the temps are good.

 

[riverc0il]

This past weekend was actually an early opening so I am not surprised that they shut the mountain down. Forecast this week shows possible rain, hopefully that translates into snow at upper elevation. Friday through Sunday could be nice though definitely not as good as this previous weekend.