Burke 1/8/2012

[from_the_NEK]

Second day out this year. Things are slowly improving inch by inch. Sasquatch opened yesterday and skied pretty well. The dense 3-4 inches on the bottom of the dense upper loose snow protects your skies for the most part. There were a few ropes ducked to find some noce boot top deep powder.

East bowl could be open but they can't yet groom the runout which is currently a mess of waterbars.

 

[billski]

thanks. Heading there this Friday. how was the "scratchiness"? Did you have a bit of rain on Sat? How did that set up for Sunday?

Waterbars at Smuggs too. Smuggs didn't seem to have a problem opening blues with waterbars. Didn't bother me. Rocks, dirt and grass don't bother me as long as there is a navigable way down.

If the base has not deteriorated, that will be fine with me.

 

[from_the_NEK]

There was a bit of rain but then 2 inches of dense snow fell on top of it. It didn't get scratchy on the groomers until after 1:00. Now that there have been a couple of more days for the groomers to smooth it out it should hold up really well. Add the fact that you very well might have the place to youself mid-week, you could probably ski courderoy all day.
Be carefull on the edges of Upper and Big Dipper. In a few places they didn't make snow all the way to the edges and there are some nasty death cookie lurking off the edges.
The natural snow trails like Wilderness (just stay right :grin were really good considering the snow season we've had so far.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Oh and they started making snow on Upper Warrens yesterday and continued with it through the night.

 

[billski]

Thanks. There looks to be some sort of frozen precip event happening for NEK and NVT on about Thursday, with a transition zone to all rain from lower vt/nh. Watching that one. Could make for a very interesting $25 Friday...

 

[thetrailboss]

East Bowl looks good to me.....and I'd figure they'd open it since it is a black diamond now. In the 1980's it was a green circle.

 

[from_the_NEK]

East Bowl looks good to me.....and I'd figure they'd open it since it is a black diamond now. In the 1980's it was a green circle.

The runout is still in rough shape. Navigatable, but rough.

 

[thetrailboss]

The runout is still in rough shape. Navigatable, but rough.

Yeah, I saw that you said it had open waterbars but could folks walk around them?

 

[Abubob]

Great photo! It actually looks like winter there!