Any reports from Mt. Wash Valley NH (North Conway)??

[billski]

Wildcat, Cranmore, Black, Attitash anyone? It also looks like Wildcat is refraining from grooming much.
Looks like they are going to get the goods the next 24 hours - 6-12"

 

[davidhowland14]

43" at the HoJo's stake.

 

[billski]

43" at the HoJo's stake.

er, uh, I was talking about in this country. seems to me hojos is in another world ;-)
I meant, lift-served.... :lol:

does this mean 54" at mansfield beats hojos? no way!

 

[Breeze]

Wildcat isn't sending the groomers out to 100% because a LOT of open trails are simply ( surprisingly?) open on natural cover. Until that ( THANK ULLR) natural cover settles, consolidates, packs in, we won't mess with it. Can't grind it without finding the rocks and the dirt. Do you want us to give you rocks and dirt? Isn't that a silly question ?

Lets get down to cases here. Everyone sees trails white and wants the ropes dropped. Its just mid-December. Its a GREAT START, but totally different from what many paying folks are accustomed to. If you want groomed corduroy right now, go find it.

Wildcat has waist deep pow in Thompson Brook.




PT BARNUM " you can please some of the people some of the time, All OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU WILL NEVER PLEASE EVERYONE all at the same time" .

Breeze

 

[billski]

Woah. My auto-direction finder just rapidly re-pointed to MWV! This is a refreshing change - rather than finding untracked pow, you have find corduroy! Me thinks I'll be heading up that way in the AM!
I suppose Black and Cranmore would have the same "issues"? This is great. Thanks!

 

[tomlane]

Wildcat isn't sending the groomers out to 100% because a LOT of open trails are simply ( surprisingly?) open on natural cover. Until that ( THANK ULLR) natural cover settles, consolidates, packs in, we won't mess with it. Can't grind it without finding the rocks and the dirt. Do you want us to give you rocks and dirt? Isn't that a silly question ?

Lets get down to cases here. Everyone sees trails white and wants the ropes dropped. Its just mid-December. Its a GREAT START, but totally different from what many paying folks are accustomed to. If you want groomed corduroy right now, go find it.

Wildcat has waist deep pow in Thompson Brook.




PT BARNUM " you can please some of the people some of the time, All OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU WILL NEVER PLEASE EVERYONE all at the same time" .

Breeze

So Thompson is skiable? Excellent! Has anyone on this board run it yet? Any tough treefalls or unsual hazards? Anyone want to hit it tomorrow or Saturday? let me know - It is good to have a buddy for that "trail".

 

[eatskisleep]

So Thompson is skiable? Excellent! Has anyone on this board run it yet? Any tough treefalls or unsual hazards? Anyone want to hit it tomorrow or Saturday? let me know - It is good to have a buddy for that "trail".

If you are up over Christmas vacation, I would be willing to ski it with you.

 

[tomlane]

If you are up over Christmas vacation, I would be willing to ski it with you.

I just called my friend at Wildcat verified that people are skiing it. My name is Tom - give me a call at 617-596-5579 and we can meet up.

 

[Breeze]

Not to hijack the thread or anything ( sorry) but it is concerning "reporting from MWV" in some aspects.


Wildcat has a satellite uplink for internet connection. If you can imagine our angle of reference to satellite, to the south-west..... um, over Gulf of Slides and Tucks Lip, just south of the Summit of MW .... you know it is a narrow angle for signal reception. Wildcat does share some data feed over satellite with MWOBS.

First off:

The dish for our uplink is on the roof of the baselodge. Deep snow depths, or ( THANK YOU ULLR) HEAVY SNOWFALL can sometimes interrupt our ability to update our website " AT WILL." Deep snow accumulation means someone has to get out on the roof to clear the dish, "NUKING SNOW" means we don't have/ can't access/ a signal.

Secondly:

This also affects a small portion of the online weather data reporting from MWOBS. If you are accessing the MWOBS site to check the Auto Road Vertical Temperature Profile. and find everything but the base and the summit BLANK, this is a clue that Wildcat doesn't have a satellite signal, because that sat feed goes thru Wildcat's connection.

Yep, Pinkham Notch IS connected to the web..... but the connection can't always overcome weather and topography.

Thirdly:

Wildcat does not have any clear line of signal to a cell phone tower. Topography is what it is.



Breeze

 

[bigbog]

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Breeze,
Since it looks as if you people will be getting more natural stuff than we will up north...any estimation of how close the neighboring off-resort terrain(W.Bethel & westward) is to sustaining skiable cover...for skinning/descents...with good? skis...or will the rock skis rule for a while...?
imo...several areas' decisions not to groom asap has been great...