Belleayre 3-3-13

[legalskier]

Conditions: powder, pp, groomed
Temp on arrival: 20

The trees are back!
I was so surprised by how much snow Belle picked up since the last time I went that I didn't think anyone would believe me, so I took a bunch of pics. I spent much of the day in the trees, constantly finding at least 4" of fresh pow that must have settled in there on top of a deep base after many small snow squalls. It snowed all day long while the sun kept trying to break through the thin cloud cover providing the delightful phenomenon known as sun snow. Also took a few runs down the new skier cross trail, which was a lot of fun; lots of kids were racing each other there. Liftlines were barely noticeable the entire day.


Belleayre Glades above midstation


Upper Winisook, right


Cathedral Brook


Upper Algonquin/Peekamoose trees


Big T Glades (Peekamoose in background)

 

[legalskier]

Here are some more:


T-bar line


Tomahawk liftline


Tongora


Upper Wanatuska


Wanatuska bumps

 

[gmcunni]

pics in 2nd message not showing for me. getting "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

 

[legalskier]

Thanks- they came up fine when I posted, but not now. I'll try to fix that later at home.

 

[legalskier]

pics in 2nd message not showing for me.

Hopefully I fixed it....

 

[Bene288]

Looks great, I almost wish I went there instead of Plattekill.

 

[gmcunni]

Hopefully I fixed it....

yes, thanks. looks great

 

[ScottySkis]

Looks great, I almost wish I went there instead of Plattekill.

Sorry you didn't like Platty.

 

[Bene288]

Sorry you didn't like Platty.

I loved the place! It's a classic hill with some challenging terrain. I just like the glades at Belleayre better. The trees at Platty are interesting, the best ones I found were on the left side. There was some seriously deep powder, all untracked and some very technical
skiing, but I was told of you get lost over there you could end up 30 miles away. I found that the bike trail glades were chute width. The place is awesome and the place reminds me a bit of Magic, I just like a little more vert is all!

 

[marcski]

I loved the place! It's a classic hill with some challenging terrain. I just like the glades at Belleayre better. The trees at Platty are interesting, the best ones I found were on the left side. There was some seriously deep powder, all untracked and some very technical
skiing, but I was told of you get lost over there you could end up 30 miles away. I found that the bike trail glades were chute width. The place is awesome and the place reminds me a bit of Magic, I just like a little more vert is all!

You got to know where to look. These are some of Platty's woods on Sunday 3-3-13:

 

[Bene288]

I was definitely in that first one. I remember that boulder with the ramp looking piece going up it. They were certainly fun. I was surprised how much snow was on the ground. The woods had better coverage than some of the steeper trails!

 

[legalskier]

The woods had better coverage than some of the steeper trails!

True that. Best snow on the mountain was in there.

 

[BenedictGomez]

To be fair, neither Belleayre nor Platty are really fantastic options for glades. Gotta go north for the badazz tree skiing.

 

[Abominable]

 

[ScottySkis]

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Bell trees?look sick where ever they are.

 

[Abominable]

Platty (3/1), in response to BD, although we better stop blowing up our spot!

 

[ScottySkis]

Platty (3/1), in response to BD, although we better stop blowing up our spot!

No glades at Platty.

 

[Abominable]

And "no fish in Montauk" either.

 

[gmcunni]

maybe start a platty trip report. . .

 

[Abominable]

True... thanks to Legalskier for this report though, haven't been to Bell since I was a kid and you've motivated me to get back there soon.