anyone ski jay lately

[petergriffen]

I'm thinking of going up tomorrow anyone ski it recently...

 

[VTpowder]

i skied today, you are limited to three advanced runs off the triple chair, everything else is flat beginner terrain. minimal coverage on most trails. there were also alot of people there today,

 

[riverc0il]

well, i have a season pass at jay but decided to ski cannon for $25 today. nothing remotely even close to a regret the last two weeks were pretty pitiful at jay and they only added haynes and U.N. since. jay isn't that good early season unless they have some natural to ski on. eh, jay isn't that good any time of the year without some natural to ski on. but the jet offers a few short and crowded trails, unless you are close, prob not worth the drive depending on where you are coming from. there are closer options to most people with equal or better terrain options.

 

[kcyanks1]

well, i have a season pass at jay but decided to ski cannon for $25 today. nothing remotely even close to a regret the last two weeks were pretty pitiful at jay and they only added haynes and U.N. since. jay isn't that good early season unless they have some natural to ski on. eh, jay isn't that good any time of the year without some natural to ski on. but the jet offers a few short and crowded trails, unless you are close, prob not worth the drive depending on where you are coming from. there are closer options to most people with equal or better terrain options.

They have UN open on natural snow? Or did snowmaking from the Jet or Haynes get blown onto UN by some wind helping out the natural base? IIRC, the UN does not have snowmaking.

 

[riverc0il]

beats me, trail report says U.N. is open. i would have figured they would have opened derick before U.N., U.N. is one rocky mo-fo in places.

 

[kcyanks1]

beats me, trail report says U.N. is open. i would have figured they would have opened derick before U.N., U.N. is one rocky mo-fo in places.

I check the report before my previous post (not that I didn't believe you) and also saw that UN was open.. Weird. Perhaps just the easier bottom half is open? Derrick Hot Shot is a good amount wider than UN, right? I actually can't recall 100% if I've skied it in my 4 days at Jay. It might not hold snow as well. Or maybe since UN is visible from the lift they figure that people see what they are getting into. In any case I guess the fact that they are willing to open even 1 natural snow trail is a good sign about the snow they must have.

 

[JPTracker]

Skied Jay today.Only two expert runs open, Jet & Haynes. They both iced up after noon. Only the lower half of UN was open with thin cover. All the natural snow trails which were open had very thin cover.

The top half the mountain was in a cloud which covered your goggles with ice on the ride up and limited visibilty. Overall Thanksgiving weekend had better conditions on the Jet.

 

[kcyanks1]

Skied Jay today.Only two expert runs open, Jet & Haynes. They both iced up after noon. Only the lower half of UN was open with thin cover. All the natural snow trails which were open had very thin cover.

The top half the mountain was in a cloud which covered your goggles with ice on the ride up and limited visibilty. Overall Thanksgiving weekend had better conditions on the Jet.

Thanks for the report. Lower half makes a lot more sense than the whole trail being open.

 

[riverc0il]

Thanks for the report. Lower half makes a lot more sense than the whole trail being open.

try not to appear confused about this. jay might see that and decide to rename the bottom of U.N. a la haynes and derick. :roll: :lol: hearing JPT's report, i am even more satisfied with my decision to head towards cannon today. jay just doesn't have enough terrain to disperse the demand and crowds they are getting right now and funneling everyone down the steep pitches of jet and haynes will continue to cause fast deterioration of the snow until some more mellow options open up (trails going to the condos and connecting to the tram base don't count).

 

[kcyanks1]

try not to appear confused about this. jay might see that and decide to rename the bottom of U.N. a la haynes and derick. :roll: :lol: hearing JPT's report, i am even more satisfied with my decision to head towards cannon today. jay just doesn't have enough terrain to disperse the demand and crowds they are getting right now and funneling everyone down the steep pitches of jet and haynes will continue to cause fast deterioration of the snow until some more mellow options open up (trails going to the condos and connecting to the tram base don't count).

As much heat as Killington gets, and in some respects deserves, for splitting every trail into 4 (e.g., Headwall, Upper, Middle, Lower ____), it does lend itself to more detailed and informative snow reports. When it leads them to say "we have 200+ trails open!" it sounds like a joke, but it does make the trail-by-trail report more helpful.

 

[petergriffen]

remotly close and i got that 2 for 1 ticket which would help out, anyone else have some kinda cheap prices?

 

[thetrailboss]

Burke was $10 for one trail.

Maybe look up Bolton?

 

[ccskier]

skied jay today and yesterday. Decent in the morning, not worth skiing past noon. We checked out kitzbuel etc.... not too bad all things considered. There is no way they sae over two feet in the past week, more like 10-12 tops. If you don't have a pass
i would not not drive all the way there

 

[ccskier]

forgot to mention, U.N. was not open. only two trails the Jet and Haynes. There is also no way they got 2+ feet. More web diarhea

 

[riverc0il]

the two feet they reported was from over the course of an entire week, i believe them. it just all blew off the mountain with the wind, a lot of it landing in the trees. a report at FTO from saturday had user bigjay reporting in that drifts 3-4 feet deep were on ullr's when they skinned over. i skied jay today and it really did suck. that doesn't mean they didn't pick up a lot of snow. it just didn't stick. you really need to read between the lines on jay's report, or any ski report for that matter. when a ski report says they picked up X amount of snow this week, it means that there is no powder, the snow is gone, they are just pimping the stat to get you to the resort. every ski area does this. fresh snow fall only counts within 24 hours. i am sure friday was a great day at jay.

any ways, i pretty much wasted my time today doing four runs off the jet at jay. i was expecting it to be bad, i wasn't expecting it to be horrible. a real let down, especially after skiing boot to knee deep at cannon on saturday. but the real kick in the pants was cannon's open terrain was way better quality snow conditions than jay and they had way more snow guns going.

 

[David Metsky]

Some pics from Jay NET Telefest over the weekend are here. There was snow to be had, but you had to hunt a bit. Jet and Haynes were nasty up top, better down low. Terrain off the Metro Quad wasn't bad, and if you hiked it was better.

-dave-

 

[petergriffen]

in case anyone cares I actually went to Bretton Woods this Sunday instead of Jay, It was actually pretty damn good, still some left over powder on some trails, with good coverage on the closed trails.