Jay peak weekend crowds this season info

[fbrissette]

I was curious about the Quebec school break - I'm planning on hitting Jay either Sunday and Monday or more likely Monday and Tuesday. I was thinking it would be quiet, but it sounds like it'll be fairly busy - but nothing close to a deal breaker worth changing plans over??

School break means the resort will be full, but lots of families hitting the waterpark. Very few day trippers. There was not any crowds last year. I would not worry about it. Of course, it'll feel like you're in Quebec with most skiers speaking french...

 

[fbrissette]

A Poma would separate the men from the boys as well ;-)

A poma up the face would definitely separate men from boys. That would a poma lift where falling could result in serious injuries, to you, and to the people behind...

 

[JPTracker]

There is VERY little flat terrain on the summit ridge.
However locating a double in a location like this may be physically possible. But it would be on wind hold A LOT and the summit terrain would get skied out extremely quickly.

Lift length = 980'
Vert = 445'

We had this discussion before:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showth...right-Jay-Peak?p=646751&viewfull=1#post646751

 

[dmw]

School break means the resort will be full, but lots of families hitting the waterpark. Very few day trippers. There was not any crowds last year. I would not worry about it. Of course, it'll feel like you're in Quebec with most skiers speaking french...

Sounds good. I was thinking it'll make it even more interesting with feeling like I'm in Quebec - bonjour!

 

[twinplanx]

A poma up the face would definitely separate men from boys. That would a poma lift where falling could result in serious injuries, to you, and to the people behind...

hence the winky face... ;-)

 

[skiking4]

I dont think that's true necessarily. I just think it provides a non "death wait" option to get to the top on weekends (which is the time this would be useful). Make it a double rather than a triple or quad, and make it "Smuggler's Notch slow" all to cut down on capacity. I think it would be very useful.

I tend to ski the Freezer to hit numerous woods options that way, but it would be nice to be able to go from the Freezer to a lift that would let me hit Green Beret of Valhalla occasionally (which I never get to ski, due to my TAS (Tram Avoidance Strategy).

Sorry to bring it back to this topic, but then it just leaves less "secret stashes" that will last for days after storms.

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

We had this discussion before:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showth...right-Jay-Peak?p=646751&viewfull=1#post646751

I thought it sounded familiar. Getting back off-topic, here is what I said before and was about to say again. Thanks JPT for saving me the thinking and typing:

There was a chair called the Skyline Chair that went to the summit, roughly from the top of the Bonaventure Chair. There was also a Poma Lift (note trail called Poma Line) that went roughly parallel to the top part of Ullr's almost to the summit. Both would have been awesome for spring skiing. I have vague memories of seeing the Poma towers when I started skiing at Jay in the early 70s.

You can still see the concrete footings of the Skyline Chair, adjacent to the Sky Haus on the Tuckerman side. Nice place to take a break on a warm spring day.

Skyline Chair, from http://home.total.net/~rsoden/mnart_11.html, note edge of Sky Haus on the right:

From http://www.chairlift.org/jay.html
"SKYLINE (DOPPELMAYR) - This double chair built in 1968 served the summit in addition the tram.
A short lift at 1200' It ran from the Plateau at tower 2 of the Tram to the summit. It was still on the map in 1969. We are not sure when and why it was removed. Skier's from the Bonaventure chair could access the summit without taking the tram and providing for early season skiing."

You would have skied from the top of the original Bonnie (AKA Red Chair), which was located right where NEK's drawing shows the new six-pack egress, across the shallow saddle to the Skyline Chair loading area, located where the current Bonnie drops you off.

 

[BenedictGomez]

"SKYLINE (DOPPELMAYR) - This double chair built in 1968 served the summit in addition the tram.
A short lift at 1200' It ran from the Plateau at tower 2 of the Tram to the summit.... We are not sure when and why it was removed. Skier's from the Bonaventure chair could access the summit without taking the tram and providing for early season skiing."

Son of a gun, that's exactly what I'm suggesting! So it did at one point exist. C'est interessant.

 

[BigJay]

We had this discussion before:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showth...right-Jay-Peak?p=646751&viewfull=1#post646751

the old summit chair use to start abit to the left... See that flat spot? On the right of were you placed the green lift. Then, the landing was a bit to the left. There are old concrete leftovers a bit to the left of where you put it. Check out the crazy straight line... That,s the old alignment.

 

[jimmywilson69]

Edit: and the inclined plane (funicular) while funny wouldn't be advisable since you can't ski under it.

Elevate the track:wink: