Best place to be the day *after* a midweek powder day?

[meat]

meat, i have found that the unexpected mid-week pow dump with no crowds occurs at many mountains. i have had some epic days at cannon on such midweek excursions with absolutely no competition due to unexpected pow. but most pow is forecasted and pow fiends will follow the localized reports. luckily, they slip up some times. knowing the mountain is of course a substantial leg up on most people and again, any mountain can leave good snow days after the storm if you know where to look. so knowing the mountain provides a huge advantage for finding pow not just the day after... but as long as it lasts until the weather thickens it up or melts it down. really, any mountain in the white or green mountains or the higher peaks of the dacks qualify since those who know the mountain will know where to find the snow after the storm. mountains at lower elevations would be more suseptible to warm cycles after the snow and it is harder to find pow two days after a dump... it usually doesn't stay cold enough for pow to stay fluffy in the lower elevations areas. i remember a HUGE dump two years ago, i think it was a one or one and a half footer on the north shore, and the snow was melting the very next morning.

good points steve, I guess now that I think of it, their were a lot more unforcasted storms than the normal year in the strangeness of last year. I also don't care if I crap up my skis early season in the trees. definatly have to be super careful of debris underneath, people always getting hurt, so what I think is ready most people would disagree. places such as burke and saddleback are probably in general better the day after the pow day due to flying the radar.

 

[kingdom-tele]

you could agrue though that the winds at jay will "refresh" the woods even without more snowfall unlike burke- that being said though i would have to vote for burke for the day after, heck even the week after

 

[catskills]

That's easy. Plattekill because their closed Monday - Friday except for PowderDaze . There so little traffic at Plattekill you can find fresh pow days after a big dump.

There is also a lot of closed ski areas listed on nelsap.org .

The last place you want to go is a ski area with night skiing when most of the snow fell during the night ski times.