thinnmann
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Different day, different weather, different snow. Amazing. With never a line for a lift, I don't know how this place stays in business - is that happening all over the place this holiday week?
It rained last night. A lot. All night long, it seemed. I would say we lost two inches of snow around here.
No rain at 7 AM, thankfully. Got to the mountain and there was fog on top for one run and one run only. After 9:30 it cleared and the sun shone. It turned out to be a beautiful warm sunny day. It felt like spring snow, mostly either slightly slushy or hardened into white ice - non-boilerplate, skiable ice. I don't think they groomed anything except connecting trails (and I can't tell you anything about the greens or Roaring Brook).
In the morning, the best skiing was off of Lift 7 & Superchief. It was bumpy and still frozen on Seneca and Dot Nebel on the west side. And by "bumpy" I don't mean moguls - they are nowhere yet. That frozen situation improved in the afternoon with the above-freezing temps and the sun.. The best snow of the day award goes to "Area51", where the park eventually gets constructed.
There were snow guns poised for action if the temperature drops. They were aimed at lower Belleayre Run, which is currently closed.
Monday's forecast is 100% for snow! It doesn't say how much, though. From 7-4 according to Weather Underground, and a solid 9-11 at weather.com. Hoist some beers for the snow gods tonight everybody!
:beer: May they smile upon us generously, thank you.
It rained last night. A lot. All night long, it seemed. I would say we lost two inches of snow around here.
No rain at 7 AM, thankfully. Got to the mountain and there was fog on top for one run and one run only. After 9:30 it cleared and the sun shone. It turned out to be a beautiful warm sunny day. It felt like spring snow, mostly either slightly slushy or hardened into white ice - non-boilerplate, skiable ice. I don't think they groomed anything except connecting trails (and I can't tell you anything about the greens or Roaring Brook).
In the morning, the best skiing was off of Lift 7 & Superchief. It was bumpy and still frozen on Seneca and Dot Nebel on the west side. And by "bumpy" I don't mean moguls - they are nowhere yet. That frozen situation improved in the afternoon with the above-freezing temps and the sun.. The best snow of the day award goes to "Area51", where the park eventually gets constructed.
There were snow guns poised for action if the temperature drops. They were aimed at lower Belleayre Run, which is currently closed.
Monday's forecast is 100% for snow! It doesn't say how much, though. From 7-4 according to Weather Underground, and a solid 9-11 at weather.com. Hoist some beers for the snow gods tonight everybody!
:beer: May they smile upon us generously, thank you.
