Location: Wachusett
Conditions: Packed Powder
Date: 1/4/10
Got up a little late this morning and didn't get onto the mountain until 10:00am. There were a few more people than I expected, I ended up parking in row 13. Conditions were not as good as I was hoping after the weekend storm, but not bad either (shouldn't have expected too much, they only got a few inches on sat). The heavy use trails (Connifer and Ralphs) had good coverage, but not much depth to the good snow, standard conditions after a good morning grooming. By the middle of the day, connifer had a good number of scraped down icy spots. Smith was my trail of the day and had some nice areas of thick snow most of the way down. The crowd really started to pile in around 4:30 when the after school programs showed up. I called it a day and went up to the black diamond restaurant for a burger and a guinness. Had never been up there before, decent food and they had guinness on tap.
Conditions: Packed Powder
Date: 1/4/10
Got up a little late this morning and didn't get onto the mountain until 10:00am. There were a few more people than I expected, I ended up parking in row 13. Conditions were not as good as I was hoping after the weekend storm, but not bad either (shouldn't have expected too much, they only got a few inches on sat). The heavy use trails (Connifer and Ralphs) had good coverage, but not much depth to the good snow, standard conditions after a good morning grooming. By the middle of the day, connifer had a good number of scraped down icy spots. Smith was my trail of the day and had some nice areas of thick snow most of the way down. The crowd really started to pile in around 4:30 when the after school programs showed up. I called it a day and went up to the black diamond restaurant for a burger and a guinness. Had never been up there before, decent food and they had guinness on tap.