Mount Snow 12-4-10

[drjeff]

Resort: Mount Snow

Date: 12-4-10

Conditions: Mainly overcast, temps in the mid/upper 20's at the base, upper teens/low 20's at the summit, winds steady about 10-15, gusts to maybe 20ish. Machine made packed powder primary surface, secondary hard pack and machine made powder. LOTS of snowmaking

TR:

Hit the hill about 8:30, a fair numbers of pods of racers and instructor training groups made some of the terrain feel a bit crowded, even though the liftlines never got more than 2 minutes the whole time I was on the hill. A solid recovery from the 2+ inches of "immature snow" that fell on Wednesday. Most of last weekends open trails (Cascade -> Canyon, Long John, Mineshaft -> Gulch were done with resurfacing and had nice machine groomed packed powder with the occasional hard pack and isolated death cookie popping up. Ridge was good, even better down low once it hit Cooper's Junction IMHO due to the fan guns still running on CJ. Rope drops on Little John (nice to have a 2nd option off the top heading towards Ridge/Carinthia with the guns still running there) and also on the Nitro -> Titanium route (my run of the day just ripping big GS arcs under full top to bottom fan guns and light crowds! Lots of snowmaking going on, from what I saw, Nitro, Titanium, the super pipe, Inferno, Cooper's Junction, Somerset Road, Drop, Exhibition, Lodge, Beaver Hill, High Traverse, and Snowdance all had the guns running today! And rope drops are supposed to happen tommorrow on Inferno (as a non park ski trail) and Snowdance.

A solid day on the hill, and Mount Snow's snowmaking assault on the Northface begins tommorrow night, looking forward to that next weekend!

 

[vcunning]

My 4 year old concurs Jeff. Snow Camp had him skiing from the summit for the first time. His comment was "wicked awesome". And we don't even live in Massachusetts.

 

[powhunter]

Nice !! Glad to hear the NF is gonna get some love soon

steveo

 

[WinnChill]

Glad you had a good day DrJeff. "Death cookie"...is that a bare spot? I'm still learning the lingo.

 

[Glenn]

Great conditions Saturday! I was impressed with the recovery. Nitro delivered under the fan guns..nice soft snow.

Today wasn't too shabby either! Canyon was nice and fast. Snowdance had some decent early season bumps on it. Long John actually skied well too.

Crowds really thinned out the afternoon and my wife and had most of the place to ourselves. We've been doing the reverse half days this early season.

Snow report indicates ropes will be dropping daily this week.

 

[WoodCore]

Pictures?

 

[deadheadskier]

Glad you had a good day DrJeff. "Death cookie"...is that a bare spot? I'm still learning the lingo.

chunks of snow, typcially about the size of a fist though sometimes larger, that haven't gotten chewed up fully by a groomer. They are generally hard as a rock as well, so when you ski over them it's not a lot of fun and the wipe out factor is high.

 

[jaywbigred]

Nitro was the run of the weekend, imo. I skied 2 hours and change each day, that was all my legs could handle. Need to train better I guess.

Had a fall that scared me on Cascade on Saturday, I think owing to a combo of edge catching in heavy manmade pow, tired legs not recovering fast enough, and a little bit of a binding prerelease. Almost threw me into the woods.

Snowdance was a lot of fun, might have given Nitro a run for its money as best trail were it not for the crowds.

 

[Newpylong]

Agreed on all ROTD's. They are putting out some seriously decent quality snow actually...

 

[Glenn]

Snowdance had some decent bumps on it Sunday afternoon; I was pretty surprised.

Yesterday delivered. There was a little natural snow and it snowed most of the time we were there. Plus, they were making snow like crazy. Nitro was fun! Those fan guns put down a really good product. Based on the snow report, they're going to be opening a lot this week.