Belleayre 12/27/07

[thinnmann]

The morning was miserable, with mist, drizzle & rain. My wife, son & I put some old plastic ponchos on to make believe we weren't getting soaked. It was fun to listen to the noise they made and watch people checkin' out our cool stylin'....

Not a lift line to be seen all day, unless you hit a lift when a race camp group happened to be there. The snow was actually nice and consistent - no ice, better skiing than yesterday from the ankles, down.

The rain turned to snow at 11:30. It was heavy at times and probably made up for any losses from the rain. It stopped about 2 PM, when it got very foggy and visibility was sometimes downright dangerous.

Seneca was open top to bottom. Some bumps were starting to develop on Seneca and Onteora. Otherwise, everything remains wide open groomers. In this damp consistent snow you couldn't lay a bad turn today if you tried.

Too warm to blow anything today.

Drove home from Peekamoose restaurant to Halcott over the Rt 28 high point near Belleayre about an hour ago and the van's outside thermometer was reading 37 degrees.

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwYXTGM7rBs

Foggy Seneca views from Tomahawk quad

 

[OppositeGeorge]

It was fun to listen to the noise they made and watch people checkin' out our cool stylin'....

Damn, we're smooth.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I was there from 11:30 till 3:30, when I bought my ticket it was raining but by the time I got my skis on it was snowing. I skied from the Superchief until lunch, finished lunch about 1:15 and then hit the Tomahawk quad for the rest of the day. The snow was nice and soft, all in all it was a good day but a lot more crowded than I'm used to. I really got spoiled doing all this non-holiday, weekday skiing. Since I was alone I figured out that, when there is a line, being a "single" seems to get you on the lift faster.:smile:

 

[Method9455]

Four of us are thinking about going up tomorrow. Is it worth the two hour drive? I went up before last weekends rain and it was great how bad did it get after that? I went today to a PA mountain and it was good, but it is going to rain tonight here do you think it will up there?

It won't cost us much, two of us have passes and two can get the $28 tickets with college ID, but it is a lot of driving (2 hours each way) so I'm hoping it will be worth it.