Wildcat Full to Capacity today?

[MikeTrainor]

I heard reports from friends that Wildcat was full to capacity today and their website says the same:

Wildcat Mountain Experienced a Full-To-Capacity Sunday

Wildcat Mountain experienced one heck of a Presidents Weekend Sunday with an incredible number of people showing up for the most vertical value.
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I usually take this weekend off due to crowds but I am not sure I can ever remember there being that much of a lift line at Wildcat. I am just curious if anyone was there and what it was like.

 

[billski]

must have been my TR from last week

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

good for them!!!!* I think skier visits will be way up this season in the Northeast!!!!

 

[KevinF]

Well, I was at Wildcat today; skied from opening until about 1:30 or so. The parking lot looked pretty full. There was a ridiculous line at noon-ish for buying Sunday afternoon tickets. I was using the singles line at the Wildcat Express, and I don't think I ever waited more then two minutes to get back on. I was doing laps on the various bump trails all day -- the groomers looked kind of crowded in places, but I had bump runs to myself. If that's "full to capacity", then it wasn't very bad at all.

 

[deadheadskier]

I was there today and the parking lot was packed. One guy was even attempting to shovel out a spot at the far lot by the sno cat learning area. I arrived at 11:30 for the Sunday afternoon cruise and was able to find a spot after about 15 minutes, 10 of which was do to idiot drivers in the parking lot and lack of direction from the attendants.

The conditions were pretty scraped off boiler plate on the Wildcat/Catapult side. Linx was a skating ring as well. Polecat had far and away the best snow for groomers along with some of the trails off of the Bobcat triple. Natural trails and woods were crusty, icy sketchy stuff. There were some decent bump lines under the quad and on Tomcat Schuss, but they needed more skiers to break up the crusty snow. Hairball skied suprisingly well for the tough conditions. Certainly not great conditions today at all, but I had fun. Sometimes its good to get out on sketchy snow days....good for your focus.

Liftlines on the quad the entire time I was there never lasted longer than 5 minutes in the singles line and I'd imagine 10-15 tops in the regular line. Tomcat and Bobcat were ski on all afternoon.

Wasn't planning on a trip report as there was nothing too spectacular to report, but I guess I pretty much just did. Though I'd grade the conditions a C- , I'm glad I went. Tonight/tomorrow's weather event is certainly gonna put the hurt on the place. It will take a good dump after to get things back to the way they were last week.

 

[riverc0il]

Well, I was at Wildcat today; skied from opening until about 1:30 or so. The parking lot looked pretty full. There was a ridiculous line at noon-ish for buying Sunday afternoon tickets. I was using the singles line at the Wildcat Express, and I don't think I ever waited more then two minutes to get back on. I was doing laps on the various bump trails all day -- the groomers looked kind of crowded in places, but I had bump runs to myself. If that's "full to capacity", then it wasn't very bad at all.

Excluding the last week in October (Tomcat Chair only), I have never waited one or two minutes for the Wildcat Express, let alone more than a few seconds as a single. One to two minutes in the singles line at Wildcat sounds pretty crowded to me!

 

[KevinF]

Excluding the last week in October (Tomcat Chair only), I have never waited one or two minutes for the Wildcat Express, let alone more than a few seconds as a single. One to two minutes in the singles line at Wildcat sounds pretty crowded to me!

Fair enough. Sunday was the first time I had skied Wildcat in about eight years, so obviously I'm not very familair with their "normal" conditions. Given that it was a holiday weekend, I figured a one or two minute wait was pretty good. I'll have to try to get there more often as it seemed like a really fun mountain.