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Mlk

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Cannon was a zoo today. The trails were like a Saturday at Wachusset, just ridiculous with people. Tough visibility, pow/chowder/dirt/boilerplate/glare ice. Looking forward to returning there when are buried on a bluebird day in say, March.

Lift lines were actually more or less non existent, but the trails and lodge were very busy.


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kingslug

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Yup..a bit more than 5 to 6..more like a foot with deep windblown..middle national up to my knees...
Rope drop on lower Goat..very deep in there..
 

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JimG.

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MLK is always a shitshow especially with new snow.

Really glad to see most places looking very improved. Looking forward to Tues Wed at K.
 

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Yes it was, best pow day of the season. I left around 11:15 after being there since 7 am. When I was leaving people were telling me that it took them 2.5 hrs to get up mountain road. As I went down the road the back up was 7.8 miles bumper to bumper before traffic let up. [emoji15].

This defies logic to me. The ppl who are 7 miles down the road, at 11:15, in gridlock, what are they thinking? By the time they get to the mountain, park and gear up it'll be 2:00. What's the point?[emoji849]
 

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Bell was meh. Storm under delivered. Maybe 4"? Headwalls got scraped off pretty fast. Nice soft bumps with icy troughs. The lower angle stuff was nice and soft, but whatever....nice snowy day in the mountains. we had fun.

Very crowded. We got there at 8:40 trying for first chair at 9, but they were loading before that - what's the deal there?

Heard stories of people in 30 minute traffic lines on teh access road at 10.
 

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Stole this from reddit. North face at snow today. Another poster said wildcat was turning cars away.


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Stole this from reddit. North face at snow today. Another poster said wildcat was turning cars away.

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That pic is CRAZY!!!! I’ve skied Mt Snow over a Presidents weekend, including a couple of extremely good ones over the years, and there wouldn’t be line that long unless one of the chairs was down. Not even close. Any other color on this situation? Was one of the lifts down for a bit? Or rather both?
 

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Yes it was, best pow day of the season. I left around 11:15 after being there since 7 am. When I was leaving people were telling me that it took them 2.5 hrs to get up mountain road. As I went down the road the back up was 7.8 miles bumper to bumper before traffic let up. ��.

lol. Stowe cannot handle holiday crowds.

Jay was easy yesterday. Slight crowding when the flyer went down for 20 minutes. No lift lines longer than5 min or so at peakest times. lots of ski on, especially singles line. Two walk on tram laps before 930.

Burke today was a bit more of a crowd, but with the one lift and the 8” of new snow, understandable. They should open earlier than 9. I had 5th chair or so, and it was basically taking me exactly 30 min for lift>ski>wait cycles, until they opened the t-bar at 12. still got 20k vert in and home in Brooklyn at 7:30. Most woods started closed and opened by noon. They skied great before noon ;)

Great weekend. Crowds avoided. Powder skied.

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This defies logic to me. The ppl who are 7 miles down the road, at 11:15, in gridlock, what are they thinking? By the time they get to the mountain, park and gear up it'll be 2:00. What's the point?[emoji849]
No idea what they are thinking. What was really over the top was the ski club busses that were filled with people waiting in that line. They couldn’t get on that mountain before 1:30 and I’m being generous. It was an amazing scene. My wife and I were betting each mile down the mountain when it was going to end. 😂😂
 

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How was the base under the fresh, Kusty? Thought about Burke for today, love those trees. Spent a lot of time in caveman, throbulator etc.


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You needed to not care about your bases and tread lightly. I got snaked a few times. People have different tolerance levels for that sort of thing. I ducked lots of ropes, some things that never opened. They need more snow before it’s truly “open”. caveman opened eventually.

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and jay :
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Anyone that skis somewhat regularly should have been able to identify ahead of time that today was going to be super crowded everywhere. Holiday weekend, 6"+ fresh snowfall everywhere, a lot of bad prior weekends causing pent up demand, of course it was going to be a sh!t show at some places.

Sunapee was the most crowded I have ever seen it today. Got on road at 5:30 for what is normally a 1:40 minute drive to try to get there in time for first chair, but highways were not plowed well and got stuck behind plows going 25mph on rte 3 leading to me not arriving to the Sunapee access road (which was already backed up with cars) until 7:40. The main Sunapee lot was already 2/3 full and I could already see about 30 people waiting in line for North Peak before I could get out of my car, so much for first chair.

Place was super crowded as expected but using singles line (which really was never longer than about 10 minutes) got 20 runs in by 2:30 when I quit. In contrast to reports of the Mount Snow employees, the Sunapee employees all seemed to be working hard and helping control the crowds as much as possible. Lift line management was good with every chair going up full. Talking with people on the lifts it sounds as if Sunapee like Stowe and Mount Snow also had a parking traffic jam mid morning when all 3 main lots were full and they started sending people to the lake beach parking lot. I knew it was going to be crazy crowded but also knew to get there early and ended up having a really nice day, no complaints on my end (except for the poor highway plowing).
 

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North Face at MS was ski right on after noon. Lots if soft bumps with a bit of slick in between. Guess not many people like it that way. We got 9 or 10 runs in over there. Spent most of the morning on Sundance and Ego, got early rides on Canyon and Grand Summit. Always have early lunch at 11. Average wait time per lift ride would be well under a minute. Crowded, yes, but lift lines can be avoided (only rode 3 high speeds all day) and the trees are pretty quiet.
 

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Anyone that skis somewhat regularly should have been able to identify ahead of time that today was going to be super crowded everywhere.......Sunapee was the most crowded I have ever seen it today.

I'm sure that it had absolutely nothing to do with it being EPIC now.

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