drjeff
Well-known member
Date: 1-4-09
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Blue Bird sky, cold and windy in the AM with moderating temps and diminishing winds as the day went on. Snow surface was generally speaking man made machine groomed pack powder with some isolated areas of hard pack in the most heavily wind scoured areas
Report:What a difference a day makes. Most of the mountain seemed deserted today, inspite of it being one of Mount Snow's Youth Pay Their Age days. All day, the lines for the main base area quads were atmost 5 minutes with 1 to 2 minute waits being more of the norm most of the day
Carinthia and the slew of teenagers was where the lines generally were today, but even then were talking 5 or so minute lines.
Anyone going to Mount Snow the next few days owes it to themselves to atleast go and take a look at the Dew Tour stuff there, very impressive, and the size of the features on Inferno is unreal (literally a couple of the features top out at if not above the tree tops at the side of Inferno
Skiing was very nice, especially once the temps climbed and the winds began to let down as it headed towards noon. Fallen Timbers was my ROTD. Opend today with top to bottom ungroomed big, soft whales of snow that were bumping up as the day went on Snowdance was pure GS Arc bliss! The 36 or so hour fan gun run that finished on Snowdance this AM combined with a little grooming and some wind scour left a super grippy styrofoam like surface where the only limitation was how far over you wanted to lean your skiis.
Ridge/Meadow was kept closed until around lunch time and a team of cats took it apart and really took it from a slick hard pack to a nice loose granular surface which should be really sweet with another cat pass or two.
As long as the weather folk are correct and whatever form of precip that falls here overnight is light/none as their calling for, Mount Snow has said the guns which shut down this AM, will be back on Monday PM, and then look for further expansion(basically all that's left to make snow on is Plummet and Ripcord on the Northface and Middle Exhibition, South Bowl and Sundance on the main mountain) and hopefully a major couple of days blasting of the full width of Bear Trap.
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Blue Bird sky, cold and windy in the AM with moderating temps and diminishing winds as the day went on. Snow surface was generally speaking man made machine groomed pack powder with some isolated areas of hard pack in the most heavily wind scoured areas
Report:What a difference a day makes. Most of the mountain seemed deserted today, inspite of it being one of Mount Snow's Youth Pay Their Age days. All day, the lines for the main base area quads were atmost 5 minutes with 1 to 2 minute waits being more of the norm most of the day
Carinthia and the slew of teenagers was where the lines generally were today, but even then were talking 5 or so minute lines.Anyone going to Mount Snow the next few days owes it to themselves to atleast go and take a look at the Dew Tour stuff there, very impressive, and the size of the features on Inferno is unreal (literally a couple of the features top out at if not above the tree tops at the side of Inferno
Skiing was very nice, especially once the temps climbed and the winds began to let down as it headed towards noon. Fallen Timbers was my ROTD. Opend today with top to bottom ungroomed big, soft whales of snow that were bumping up as the day went on
Snowdance was pure GS Arc bliss! The 36 or so hour fan gun run that finished on Snowdance this AM combined with a little grooming and some wind scour left a super grippy styrofoam like surface where the only limitation was how far over you wanted to lean your skiis.Ridge/Meadow was kept closed until around lunch time and a team of cats took it apart and really took it from a slick hard pack to a nice loose granular surface which should be really sweet with another cat pass or two.
As long as the weather folk are correct and whatever form of precip that falls here overnight is light/none as their calling for, Mount Snow has said the guns which shut down this AM, will be back on Monday PM, and then look for further expansion(basically all that's left to make snow on is Plummet and Ripcord on the Northface and Middle Exhibition, South Bowl and Sundance on the main mountain) and hopefully a major couple of days blasting of the full width of Bear Trap.
