Lift Line Report?

[Cornhead]

No lines at Bear Paw in MT today. About 50 cars in the lot.

Wow Jay, you sure know how to avoid the crowds, Bear Paw MT?!, impressive, where else are you skiing on your trip?

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[hammer]

Roads suck right now. Wife just drove back from Concord and said there were vehicles off the road everywhere. Another big accident at the Junction of 89 and 202/9.

Hopefully HHDOT will get the highways in good shape for tomorrow morning. Only have 3" near Nashua and it must be even less further north.

 

[BenedictGomez]

5 minute max at Platty, funny seeing corrals there, I didn't know they owned any.

Holy crap, I hope you asked for your money back!

 

[jaytrem]

Wow Jay, you sure know how to avoid the crowds, Bear Paw MT?!, impressive, where else are you skiing on your trip?

Yeah, I can't deal with those Plattekill crowds. Bear Paw was great, everyone was super friendly. We felt like celebrities, I don't think get many visitors from other parts of MT much less NJ.

So far we've been to Bridger, Big Sky, Showdown, Discovery, Teton Pass, Bear Paw, and tomorrow is Great Divide (last day). With some areas being closed various midweek days it requires some tricky planning. However, that increases your powder day odds. It worked like a charm this year. Also had some positive and negative lift closures. A couple lifts at Big Sky were closed on the primary powder day, so that made for some nice bonus powder the next day. Up at Teton they had some avalanche issues that blocked the path to the new surface lift that serves a 2nd mountain. Also missed skiing the new Discovery terrain by two days. Had a great day at both places anyway, so no complaints at all.

Oh, just realized this, you would have loved lower Bear Paw today, they just kept grooming and grooming until about noon!!! ;-)

 

[abc]

5 minute max at Platty, funny seeing corrals there, I didn't know they owned any.

Holy crap, I hope you asked for your money back!

Not by the time I arrived (11:30), more like 10 chairs max. Maybe 2 minutes? Half of the time ski right on.

The only time I actually had to wait for that full 10 chair was when a lone ski patrol dude (on a board) pretended not to hear when I asked if I could pair up with him twice!

 

[Wavewheeler]

5 minute max at Platty, funny seeing corrals there, I didn't know they owned any.

There were none yesterday. They were setting up their park yesterday for something. They had it closed off and were building it up and grooming it. Nice corduroy. I wanted to ski on it.

 

[skifree]

Yeah, I can't deal with those Plattekill crowds. Bear Paw was great, everyone was super friendly. We felt like celebrities, I don't think get many visitors from other parts of MT much less NJ.

So far we've been to Bridger, Big Sky, Showdown, Discovery, Teton Pass, Bear Paw, and tomorrow is Great Divide (last day). With some areas being closed various midweek days it requires some tricky planning. However, that increases your powder day odds. It worked like a charm this year. Also had some positive and negative lift closures. A couple lifts at Big Sky were closed on the primary powder day, so that made for some nice bonus powder the next day. Up at Teton they had some avalanche issues that blocked the path to the new surface lift that serves a 2nd mountain. Also missed skiing the new Discovery terrain by two days. Had a great day at both places anyway, so no complaints at all.

Oh, just realized this, you would have loved lower Bear Paw today, they just kept grooming and grooming until about

noon!!! ;-)

Nice!!!!

 

[Cornhead]

Not by the time I arrived (11:30), more like 10 chairs max. Maybe 2 minutes? Half of the time ski right on.

The only time I actually had to wait for that full 10 chair was when a lone ski patrol dude (on a board) pretended not to hear when I asked if I could pair up with him twice!

You were there Saturday? Sorry I didn't text you, Scotty said he thought you were going Friday, would've liked to ski with you again. We did meet Abubob, I was waiting for Scotty at the top of the double when he first arrived, late as usual , when I saw his chair coming I yelled out "Scotty, I'd recognize those red pants anywhere." He heard me, and introduced himself, we skied a couple runs together before he went off to join his wife, nice guy. We then ran into Marcski, again, great guy, he was there with his family. Cool randomly meeting fellow AZer's amongst the "throngs" at Platty.

Jay, too funny buddy, you're the only guy I know who has to avoid the "masses" at Platty by skiing some tiny place in Montana! Does it get any more remote than that, in the lower 48 anyway? Bohemia? Sounds like an awesome trip, kudos. Perpetual grooming? Stop, I'm salivating! Have you skied Platty? You'd like it, could use more grooming, however.

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[Cornhead]

Just kidding, inside joke. The steeps were thigh burners today, they just kept going, and going.

 

[yeggous]

On Saturday morning at Wildcat there were 5 minute lines for the quad and no lines for other lifts. No lines at all in the afternoon. Made it a busy day by Wildcat standards!

FYI, they groomed out Upper Polecat for the first time this season. Still thin cover in one section, but it gives them a second route off the summit for vacation week!


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[gmcunni]

At Magic - holy sh!t. The lift line is super long! One chair running - Black chair! They hope to get Red chair going! BTW the Black chair is a slow triple

from today's snow report -

2/16/14: On the Red Chair front, after considerable progress yesterday, there is final inspection this morning so we hope to have her available soon!

hopefully that means running today.

 

[ScottySkis]

On the way to Catamont don't think I be waiting more then a minute or two. Should be my best day yet here ever . Looking foward to skiing real snow here for the first time.

 

[goldsbar]

Belleayre ranged from 0-20 minutes. Typical was around 5 minutes. No lines before 10:00am and around lunchtime. The 20 happened only once at ~2:30pm when a heavy line coincided with an inability of some people to board a HSQ (several times in a row).

 

[xwhaler]

Ski on at the whale and plenty of soft stuff. Bluebird AM. Love it

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[k123]

Belleayre ranged from 0-20 minutes. Typical was around 5 minutes. No lines before 10:00am and around lunchtime. The 20 happened only once at ~2:30pm when a heavy line coincided with an inability of some people to board a HSQ (several times in a row).

Max wait time for me was about 3 minutes, but I avoided the superchief from 11am - 3pm.

 

[Jem]

Went to Hunter yesterday, rode until about 1:00. Wait times at the Kaat were about 5 mins or so. Expected so much worse, but really not bad at all. Lines at the B lift didn't look too bad either. Snowed whole time we were there. Conditions were great.


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[abc]

You were there Saturday? Sorry I didn't text you, Scotty said he thought you were going Friday, would've liked to ski with you again. We did meet Abubob, I was waiting for Scotty at the top of the double when he first arrived, late as usual , when I saw his chair coming I yelled out "Scotty, I'd recognize those red pants anywhere." He heard me, and introduced himself, we skied a couple runs together before he went off to join his wife, nice guy. We then ran into Marcski, again, great guy, he was there with his family. Cool randomly meeting fellow AZer's amongst the "throngs" at Platty.

Same, would have love to share some turns. Though it's probably better I didn't bothering hooking up with anyone. Had some problem with my board after the tune the shop did last week. Too grabby on the packed down surface. Had one or two spills (no harm done) due to the edge no releasing (and stared at a few trees close-up too). I had to change strategy by staying off any groom surface whenever possible and straightlining the run back to lift. Concentrated on tackling the giant bumps on Blockbuster and Freefall repeatedly instead.

It was a good day of skiing despite the minor issue.

 

[hammer]

Ski on at the whale and plenty of soft stuff. Bluebird AM. Love it

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Was also there today from 10 - 2, great conditions all around. Lines built up after 1PM to the lodge.

 

[xwhaler]

Was also there today from 10 - 2, great conditions all around. Lines built up after 1PM to the lodge.

Wow. That sorta surprises me. I figured a lot of people like me were doing the AM session. Only time lines were "long" were between 1030-1130. When I left at 1 the pub was getting pretty busy. They had a good crowd today for sure which is great

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[makimono]

from today's snow report -

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Yes, Red Ran today! Once both chairs were spinning (around 11ish) lines were under 5 minutes at Red and pretty much ski on at Black