polski
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Bretton Woods reported 36" total new snow from this storm and I can vouch for that. I also can vouch for the fact that it's an awfully flat mountain ... even though the snow was strikingly NOT wind-affected, I got stuck in > knee-deep too many times to count. Had a fine time on relatively steeper stuff and some small glades shots though. With the possible exception of Magic last Feb, this was the deepest pow I've ever skied. That floating sensation - and the ability (in fact the need) to straight-line stuff that normally would require turns - will never get old.
With three teen/pre-teen boys we got off to a later start than we'd planned (comedy of errors in the a.m.) but we skied to the closing bell and one run beyond, as with our day passes we were able to ride the lift for one run of night skiing. Even there I was grabbing deep pow on trail edges ... and taking the last two of a rather large number of spectacular but painless falls for the day.
As mentioned in another thread I'd been trying to decide between Magic and Cannon. As we approached Concord on 93 I decided we'd hit either Cannon or BW - I love Magic but couldn't ignore that the N NH hills had basically twice as much snowfall. And that difference is entirely north of the notches - dramatically deeper snow there. As we approached Cannon I decided on BW, thinking perhaps it wouldn't be as crowded (not sure I was right about that, though the Rosebrook Summit chair was fine all afternoon; post-lunch lines at the base were 10 min or so) and less windy (don't know about Cannon but except for extremely isolated strong gusts, it was basically calm at BW).
If I had it to do over again in these circumstances I might have chosen Cannon, though I'd need to see more reports from there yesterday to really say.
Photos or videos later. I only shot a little, toward the end of the day, but the alpenglow over Mt Washington was incredible.
With three teen/pre-teen boys we got off to a later start than we'd planned (comedy of errors in the a.m.) but we skied to the closing bell and one run beyond, as with our day passes we were able to ride the lift for one run of night skiing. Even there I was grabbing deep pow on trail edges ... and taking the last two of a rather large number of spectacular but painless falls for the day.
As mentioned in another thread I'd been trying to decide between Magic and Cannon. As we approached Concord on 93 I decided we'd hit either Cannon or BW - I love Magic but couldn't ignore that the N NH hills had basically twice as much snowfall. And that difference is entirely north of the notches - dramatically deeper snow there. As we approached Cannon I decided on BW, thinking perhaps it wouldn't be as crowded (not sure I was right about that, though the Rosebrook Summit chair was fine all afternoon; post-lunch lines at the base were 10 min or so) and less windy (don't know about Cannon but except for extremely isolated strong gusts, it was basically calm at BW).
If I had it to do over again in these circumstances I might have chosen Cannon, though I'd need to see more reports from there yesterday to really say.
Photos or videos later. I only shot a little, toward the end of the day, but the alpenglow over Mt Washington was incredible.
