Your 2016-2017 Season Thread

Pretty sure based on my kids sports schedules the next few weeks, that the hike up Mount Snow to the top of Canyon Quad and having about a mile long corn harvest with only about 50 yards of having to walk near the base for day #50 finished the season off for me, and on a good note as well!

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1. 12/28 Camelback
2. 12/31 Mt Sunapee
3. 01/01 Loon
4. 01/07 Camelback
5. 01/08 Camelback
6. 01/10 Camelback
7. 01/14 Camelback
8. 01/15 Camelback
9. 01/21 Okemo
10. 01/22 Okemo
11. 01/28 Stratton
12. 01/29 Stratton
13. 02/02 Winter Park (Reaquainted with the Jane + Fresh=awesome)
14. 02/03 Copper
15. 02/04 Winter Park (freshies)
16. 02/05 Copper
17. 02/11 Camelback (injury)
18. 02/18 Camelback
19. 02/19 Camelback
20. 03/05 Camelback (equaling last years total and surprisingly good)
21. 03/09 Camelback
22. 03/11 Loon (coldest day I have skied in 30 years- Brutal, but good snow)
23. 03/12 Loon
24. 03/16 Camelback
25. 03/18 Steamboat
26. 03/19 Steamboat
27. 03/20 Solitude
28. 03/21 Brighton
29. 03/22 Solitude
30. 03/23 Brighton
31. 03/24 Brighton
32. 04/01 Killington
33. 04/02 Killington
34. 04/08 Killington
35. 04/09 Killington (what a weekend to close the eastern portion of my season A+:razz:)
36 04/20 Winter Park
37 04/21 Loveland
38. 04/22 Winter Park

Season over. 2 shy of the stated goal of 40 but still one of the best ever with spectacular variety due to the Max Pass.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Hit number 19 yesterday at Killington.

Trying to put the pieces in place for a Sugarloaf jaunt tomorrow, as the weather doesn't look great the rest of the week...

1. 11/13 Bretton Woods
2. 11/22 Bretton Woods
3. 11/27 Wildcat
4. 12/4 Wildcat
5. 12/8 Wildcat
6. 12/11 Crotched
7. 12/13 Wildcat
8. 12/17 Wildcat
9. 12/22 Attitash
10. 12/26 Wildcat/Attitash
11. 12/27 Crotched - son's first day skiing
12. 12/31 Crotched
13. 1/5 Attitash
14. 1/7 Wildcat
15. 1/10 Wildcat
16. 1/14 Crotched
17. 1/19 Wildcat
18. 1/22 Wildcat
19. 1/29 Wildcat
20. 1/31 Attitash
21. 2/2 Crotched
22. 2/5 Wildcat
23. 2/9 Wildcat
24. 2/10 Sugarloaf
25. 2/11 Sugarloaf
26. 2/12 Sugarloaf
27. 2/14 Wildcat
28. 2/21 Crotched
29. 2/22 Crotched
30. 2/25 Crotched
31. 3/9 Wildcat
32. 3/12 Crotched
33. 3/15 Wildcat
34. 3/16 Attitash
35. 3/19 Wildcat
36. 3/21 Attitash
37. 3/24 Crotched
38. 3/25 Wildcat
39. 3/30 Attitash
40. 4/1 Crotched
41. 4/2 Wildcat
42. 4/8 Cannon
43. 4/11 Wildcat
44. 4/15 Wildcat

That'll be it for me this season. Unfortunately due to a bad back I have had to throw in the towel 2-3 weeks early. I was hoping to finish out the Wildcat season and then maybe grab a day at Killington in May, but health says otherwise. On the mend with the help of a chiropractor, but it's just not worth the risk to push for more days.

Overall a fantastic season. Other than the three week blow torch, Wildcat was pretty great from Mid December on through into April. They were at 100% operation for probably 75 days of their season, which is about as good as it gets for them. They dodged many rain events that ended up as snow and I grabbed more powder days this season or great leftovers than I have in many years.

Only complaint would be Crotched didn't have a great year in terms of a long tree skiing season. Though they did commit to some bumps, which hopefully carries over to next season.

Highlight of the year was getting my 20 month old out on skis. Next year with him being stronger will bring big changes to my skiing life that I can't wait to embark on.






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1) 10/28 - K
2) 11/21 - Aqua Terra / earned
3) 11/25 - Greek
4) 11/27 - Hunter
5) 12/04 - Hunter
6) 12/10 - Snow Ridge
7) 12/11 - Whiteface
8) 12/17 - Greek, foot
9) 12/18 - Greek
10) 12/24 - Greek
11) 12/30 - Greek
12) 12/31 - Greek
13) 01/01 - Hunter
14) 01/07 - Greek
15) 01/08 - Greek
16) 01/10 - Greek / night / 4" fresh
17) 01/11 - McCauley Mt
18) 01/14 - Greek
19) 01/15 - Greek
20) 01/21 - Greek
21) 01/24 - Greek
22) 01/28 - Wood's Valley, McCauley, Song
23) 01/29 - Snow Ridge TWO FEET
24) 02/03 - McCauley Mt. TWO FEET
25) 02/04 - Greek
26) 02/05 - Snow Ridge
27) 02/08 - Middlebury, Bolton Valley
28) 02/09 - Stowe
29) 02/10 - Stowe
30) 02/11 - Gore
31) 02/13 - Plattekill Powder Paradise
32) 02/18 - Greek, 50° mid Feb
33) 02/19 - Platty
34) 02/25 - Greek
35) 02/26 - Greek
36) 03/05 - Hunter
37) 03/06 - Holiday Valley
38) 03/11 - Belleayre
39) 03/12 - Hunter
40) 03/14 - Belleayre STELLA !!!
41) 03/15 - Platty STELLA!!!
42) 03/18 - Greek
43) 03/19 - Platty
44) 03/22 - Greek YUCK, sunny at least
45) 03/25 - Greek, closing day
46) 03/26 - Song
47) 03/31 - Windham, brutal
48) 04/01 - Gore, foot o pow, no joke!
49) 04/02 - Gore, sun and
50) 04/08 - Bolton Valley, another late season powder day.
51) 04/09 - Stowe, Spring skiing at it's finest. 100% open on April 9th, incredible.
52) 04/15 - Belleayre
53) 04/23 - K



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October 23rd A Basin
October 30th A Basin
November 13th Loveland
November 20th Loveland
November 27 Keystone
December 2nd Eldora
December 10 Keystone
December 11 Breckenridge
December 18 Keystone
December 25 A Basin
December 30 Breckenridge
January 1 Vail
January 13 A Basin
January 14 Loveland
January 21 Breckenridge
January 28 Cooper
February 5 Keystone
February 12 Breckenridge
February 17 Keystone
February 19 Keystone
March 5 Beaver Creek
March 12 A Basin
March 17 A Basin
March 19 Breckenridge
March 26 A Basin
March 31 Keystone
April 2 A Basin
April 8 Breckenridge
April 14 Keystone
April 15 Loveland
April 16 A Basin
April 22 Loveland
April 23 A Basin

Skied 321k vertical in 29 days on slope.

That is 60% more vertical than I have skied in a season before and 38% more days.

46 days trying hard for a lift served 50. Might have to rely on K making memorial day to make it to 50 looking at my calendar for the next few weeks.

So I think at this point we are most likely done for the season... I ended up with 37 days, my two sons and wife ended up with 37, 36 and 31 days.

I really thought that the boys and I would crack the 40 day barrier but the past two weekends we ended up staying home with the rain.

May end up grabbing one more day if we blast up to Killington this weekend, but mentally we all seem as if we are on to spring activities now.

It is hard to believe how quickly it wound down, and hard to believe that it was just 2 weeks ago we were skiing a nearly 100% open Pico.

boston_e said:

It is hard to believe how quickly it wound down, and hard to believe that it was just 2 weeks ago we were skiing a nearly 100% open Pico.

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The story this whole past season.

Cold-Snowy-Warm-Cold-Snowy-Warm........

boston_e said:

It is hard to believe how quickly it wound down, and hard to believe that it was just 2 weeks ago we were skiing a nearly 100% open Pico.

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JimG. said:

The story this whole past season.

Cold-Snowy-Warm-Cold-Snowy-Warm........

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Yes, anyone that looks only at snowfall totals this season won't see the full story. Snowfall totals would lead you to believe this season was close to Epic by Northeast standards, yet the variability, warmth, and rain really hurt a lot. Yes there were some truly great days, but there were quite a few sub-par ones as well.

I'm now up to 42 days and shooting for 45 as long as Sugarbush opens Saturday-Monday as currently planned. As is, I've already broken my previous personal records for days and vertical. From that perspective I'm happy and I certainly enjoyed the season even with the weather roller coaster we experienced.

I think the roller coaster was much more challenging in VT and NY than it was in Northern NH and Maine. People were still skiing trees at Wildcat today, Sugarloaf is near 90+% open still and both those areas saw 100+" less snow than Northern VT. Outside of the three week period starting late February, the warm ups and rain events were very infrequent in those locations. It was a well above average season quality wise in that area of New England.

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Good point DHS. I think even north of Sugarbush the difference in VT was quite significant as Stowe and Jay seemed to fair much better from what I heard after some of the warms ups and rain events than SB and points south did.

At Sugarbush alone the difference in snow between the summit and base was incredible this year (200+" difference!). Sugarbush only started reporting totals for the base last year, so I don't have much to directly compare to, however if I look at MRG's numbers from the past usually they had less than a 100" difference between base and summit totals so I would expect SB to be somewhat similar.

1. 11/25 Bretton Woods
2. 11/26 Cannon
3. 11/27 Bretton Woods
4. 12/3 Cannon
5. 12/4 Bretton Woods
6. 12/10 Cannon
7. 12/17 Cannon
8. 12/26 Waterville Valley
9. 12/29 Storrs Hill
10. 12/30 Whaleback
11. 12/31 Bretton Woods
12. 1/1 Cannon
13. 1/2 Bretton Woods
14. 1/7 Bretton Woods
15. 1/8 Waterville Valley
16. 1/10 Whaleback
17. 1/14 Bretton Woods
18. 1/15 Ragged
19. 1/16 Cranmore
20. 1/19 Whaleback
21. 1/21 Bretton Woods
22. 1/22 Dartmouth Skiway
23. 1/28 Bretton Woods
24. 1/29 Bolton Valley
25. 2/2 McIntyre
26. 2/3 Sugarbush
27. 2/4 Bretton Woods
28. 2/7 Whaleback
29. 2/9 Whaleback
30. 2/11 Bretton Woods
31. 2/12 Middlebury Snow Bowl
32. 2/13 Suicide Six
33. 2/19 Cannon
34. 2/20 Black Mountain
35. 2/25 Bretton Woods
36. 2/26 Bretton Woods
37. 3/3 Pats Peak
38. 3/4 Bretton Woods
39. 3/5 Suicide Six
40. 3/9 Whaleback
41. 3/10 Granite Gorge
42. 3/11 Bretton Woods
43. 3/12 Cannon
44. 3/16 Magic
45. 3/18 Bretton Woods
46. 3/19 Cannon
47. 3/23 Bromont
48. 3/24 Sutton
49. 3/26 Waterville Valley
50. 3/30 Bolton Valley
51. 4/1 Bretton Woods
52. 4/2 Smugglers Notch
53. 4/8 Cannon
54. 4/9 Cannon
55. 4/15 Cannon
56. 4/17 Bretton Woods
57. 4/22 Sugarbush
58. 4/23 Sugarbush
59. 4/30 Sugarbush

I'll revise if we don't make it to Sugarbush on Sunday for some reason, but barring some unforeseen circumstance, my final tally is 59 days at 20 different ski areas. It was a good year with some awesome, AWESOME days scattered throughout. But the weather was extremely hit or miss and included above average temps in November, a month long blowtorch starting in mid-February which completely destroyed the one week of real winter that we finally had immediately preceding the blowtorch, and a hot as hell April which again ruined the gains made in the last two weeks of March. And it's those last two weeks of March that saved the season. Without that, it would have been only marginally better than last year.

Looks similar to a typical year for me when I was back east. We liked to hit up many resorts but had a pass for a base resort, did ride and ski tour and chased some deals. Now much harder to do in Colorado.

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Yeah over on the east side its been a great year, not record breaking or anything but not bad. I lapped steep 1500 very steep trees all afternoon yesterday and there was still 3 feet of base on most of it. It was actually deeper than most of the trails. We have been consistently skiing this stuff since December with the exception of a few select days. The thaws never got the best of winter up there.

I guess I'm done here. I've had a great time and while I didn't count days im sure it got to at least 50. Its been nice being back east for a year. My skills are sharper lol.

snoseek said:

Yeah over on the east side its been a great year, not record breaking or anything but not bad. I lapped steep 1500 very steep trees all afternoon yesterday and there was still 3 feet of base on most of it. It was actually deeper than most of the trails. We have been consistently skiing this stuff since December with the exception of a few select days. The thaws never got the best of winter up there.

I guess I'm done here. I've had a great time and while I didn't count days im sure it got to at least 50. Its been nice being back east for a year. My skills are sharper lol.

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Are you speaking of Wildcat? Do they have any less-tight trees/glades when the cover is good? Some of the ones at Jay are nice and wide and Killington has some wider glades also, but most other resorts the trees are super tight and I'm not a huge fan of that on my board.

Skiers left off the Bobcat chair has some nice flowy/cruiser woods.

xwhaler said:

Skiers left off the Bobcat chair has some nice flowy/cruiser woods.

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Cool! Will definitely have to check them out next season.

Jcb890 said:

Cool! Will definitely have to check them out next season.

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Not at Wildcat, but at Attitash the woods off Wandering Skis (on your right about 1/3 of the way down) are open too. Quite short though.