drjeff
Well-known member
Date: 12-6-08
Resort:Mount Snow
Conditions: Machine groomed, fresh fan-made, and occasional hardpack
Report:
Overall, I'd give today a "B" good, but not great. LOTS of snow being made as Mount Snow is hammering the top to bottom Exhibition/Lodge route(????Sunday opening????), as well as Charlie's Chase, Inferno, The Gulch, The Superpipe and then a couple of connectors around the mountain.
The biggest issue I found today, wasn't the volume of the crowd (average early December weekend crowd, i.e. maybe a 2 to 3 minute wait atmost for the major chairs), but that the PSIA instructor teaching session is going on here this weekend and theres a whole bunch of 10 to 15 instructor groups filling up ALOT of terrain in addition to the regular kids program groups on the hill. Quite a few times my wife and I were annoyingly out of synch with the instructor groups and had onhill crowds that seemed heavier than last weekend
but the would ride up the chair and see wide open trails
Chute was firm, and I almost laughed out loud at the kids from the freestyle team who were trying to set a bumpline on skiers left in the hardpack. My guess is that the top layer *might* yield a 6" bump after a couple of slide slip passes from all 30-40kids in the program. Ridge/Meadow was high speed GS arcing bliss(some folks will call it icy though guarenteed, but with a nice edge and the know how of making a carved turn, it was fun).
ROTD IMHO was Inferno. No park features there yet, but they're hammering it with the fan guns and it was skiing as a couple of inches of soft man made ontop of the natural rolling terrain of that trail. My wife and I ended up lapping Inferno via the Heavy Metal Chair the most today.
Weather report is calling for a couple of inches of snow here tonight, and I'd say that it's a 99.99% given fact that a whole bunch of fanguns will be humming all night long.
Decent today, likely better tommorrow.
Pics should be up later, gotta run across the street and pick the kids up in a few minutes now
Resort:Mount Snow
Conditions: Machine groomed, fresh fan-made, and occasional hardpack
Report:
Overall, I'd give today a "B" good, but not great. LOTS of snow being made as Mount Snow is hammering the top to bottom Exhibition/Lodge route(????Sunday opening????), as well as Charlie's Chase, Inferno, The Gulch, The Superpipe and then a couple of connectors around the mountain.
The biggest issue I found today, wasn't the volume of the crowd (average early December weekend crowd, i.e. maybe a 2 to 3 minute wait atmost for the major chairs), but that the PSIA instructor teaching session is going on here this weekend and theres a whole bunch of 10 to 15 instructor groups filling up ALOT of terrain in addition to the regular kids program groups on the hill. Quite a few times my wife and I were annoyingly out of synch with the instructor groups and had onhill crowds that seemed heavier than last weekend
but the would ride up the chair and see wide open trails Chute was firm, and I almost laughed out loud at the kids from the freestyle team who were trying to set a bumpline on skiers left in the hardpack. My guess is that the top layer *might* yield a 6" bump after a couple of slide slip passes from all 30-40kids in the program. Ridge/Meadow was high speed GS arcing bliss(some folks will call it icy though guarenteed, but with a nice edge and the know how of making a carved turn, it was fun).
ROTD IMHO was Inferno. No park features there yet, but they're hammering it with the fan guns and it was skiing as a couple of inches of soft man made ontop of the natural rolling terrain of that trail. My wife and I ended up lapping Inferno via the Heavy Metal Chair the most today.
Weather report is calling for a couple of inches of snow here tonight, and I'd say that it's a 99.99% given fact that a whole bunch of fanguns will be humming all night long.
Decent today, likely better tommorrow.
Pics should be up later, gotta run across the street and pick the kids up in a few minutes now
