Euler
Active member
I had planned a ski get-together with another family at Pico for today, and as the day drew near I didn't have high hopes for conditions. Indeed when we woke up this morning at our friend's home in Rutland, it was raining and my spirits fell. We made some coffee, picked up some donuts, and then called upon the power of the interweb and looked at the webcam at Pico...what was this...there, just 15 minutes away by car it was not raining but snowing!! We drove up and sure enough, halfway to Pico from Rutland the wet roads turned to lightly snow covered roads!
Cut to the chase: about 2" new when we got there at 9:30 and it snowed steadily all day long..probably 2 more inches before we left. The upper 2/3 of the mountain had a nice dry(ish) snow and the bottom 1/3 was the mankiest, wierdest snow I've ever skied on. The whole mountain was fairly well socked in by fog/cloud, but the snow up top made that a secondary concern. Upper Giant Killer was mint, Summit Glades, spectacular. We soon learned to spend as little time as possible on the lower mountain because the snow surface down low was just bizarre...it was snowing, but temps must have been just above freezing, so the surface on the heavily skiied, groomed trails was hard packed yet soft at the same time...I couldn't let my skis ride flat, yet to try to carve a turn was the grabbiest, scariest ski experience I've ever had. The day was amazing, between the unexpected great snow up high and the energy of the four kids under 13 I skied with...just great!
Cut to the chase: about 2" new when we got there at 9:30 and it snowed steadily all day long..probably 2 more inches before we left. The upper 2/3 of the mountain had a nice dry(ish) snow and the bottom 1/3 was the mankiest, wierdest snow I've ever skied on. The whole mountain was fairly well socked in by fog/cloud, but the snow up top made that a secondary concern. Upper Giant Killer was mint, Summit Glades, spectacular. We soon learned to spend as little time as possible on the lower mountain because the snow surface down low was just bizarre...it was snowing, but temps must have been just above freezing, so the surface on the heavily skiied, groomed trails was hard packed yet soft at the same time...I couldn't let my skis ride flat, yet to try to carve a turn was the grabbiest, scariest ski experience I've ever had. The day was amazing, between the unexpected great snow up high and the energy of the four kids under 13 I skied with...just great!
