drjeff
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Date: 4/5/09
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Temps in the 30's/low 40's, mainly sunny, an inch or two of wet snow overnight, windy, spring conditions
Report: First thing this AM, the winds were causing problems in the Main Base Area/Northface with wind holds on Canyon, Grand Summit and Northface. I used this as an advantage to break out the big lens for my DSLR, and take ALOT of pics of my kids lapping the Discovery Triple
My 3 year old son practicing his power wedge
My 5 year old daughter displaying some good form
Finally about 10, the wind let down enough to get Canyon spinning (and the kids had to get to their respective programs) so my wife and I went out for a few runs
My wife harvesting the corn on Snowdance
About 11, they started spinning the Grand Summit, but the Northface was still on wind hold
My wife quit around noon to head back to CT, and since it was turning into a GREAT spring day, I figured I'd go check out Carinthia. Whether or not today was the "official" gaper day, I'm not sure, but the 80's/90's neon was out in force and made for some very entertaining rides on Nitro watching the sessioning going on!
Lastly, a view of the mountain from my back deck about 3PM
The fan gun trails are in decent shape, the "classic" snowmaking trails are variable, some with very good coverage and some with sketchy coverage, and the natural snow trails that I saw (due to weather I never did get to the Northface this weekend) are done. The mountain is closing this Monday - Thursday due to a generally wet forcast, and reopening Friday through Sunday atleast. After that?? Who knows, definate talk around the mountain about next Sunday being the last day
However, if atleast the Carinthia side pulls crowds next weekend like it had today, I wouldn't be suprised if there's atleast 1 more weekend of Carinthia after Easter, and potentially more as there's ALOT of snow available to push around over there, and they've also been moving piles of snow from adjacent already closed trails into position for even more available snow. We'll have to see!
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Temps in the 30's/low 40's, mainly sunny, an inch or two of wet snow overnight, windy, spring conditions
Report: First thing this AM, the winds were causing problems in the Main Base Area/Northface with wind holds on Canyon, Grand Summit and Northface. I used this as an advantage to break out the big lens for my DSLR, and take ALOT of pics of my kids lapping the Discovery Triple
My 3 year old son practicing his power wedge
My 5 year old daughter displaying some good form
Finally about 10, the wind let down enough to get Canyon spinning (and the kids had to get to their respective programs) so my wife and I went out for a few runs
My wife harvesting the corn on Snowdance
About 11, they started spinning the Grand Summit, but the Northface was still on wind hold
My wife quit around noon to head back to CT, and since it was turning into a GREAT spring day, I figured I'd go check out Carinthia. Whether or not today was the "official" gaper day, I'm not sure, but the 80's/90's neon was out in force and made for some very entertaining rides on Nitro watching the sessioning going on!
Lastly, a view of the mountain from my back deck about 3PM
The fan gun trails are in decent shape, the "classic" snowmaking trails are variable, some with very good coverage and some with sketchy coverage, and the natural snow trails that I saw (due to weather I never did get to the Northface this weekend) are done. The mountain is closing this Monday - Thursday due to a generally wet forcast, and reopening Friday through Sunday atleast. After that?? Who knows, definate talk around the mountain about next Sunday being the last day
However, if atleast the Carinthia side pulls crowds next weekend like it had today, I wouldn't be suprised if there's atleast 1 more weekend of Carinthia after Easter, and potentially more as there's ALOT of snow available to push around over there, and they've also been moving piles of snow from adjacent already closed trails into position for even more available snow. We'll have to see!
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