drjeff
Well-known member
Date: 12-7-08
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Overcast, temps dropping and winds increasing throughout the day, light snow on a machine groomed/occasional hardpack surface
Report:
Started off with comfortable temps and light winds and a light coating of fresh snow (1/2" or so) on all the terrain that was open the day before. An extra night of grooming made a difference on the hardpack especially for Ridge and also the Upper Canyon/Standard route. Chute was still a firm, fast crusiers paradise, and also on the Northface, since Saturday the snowmaking crew pulled the hoses and set the guns on Freefall and mid morning you could hear the sound of the waterline being charged on Freefall.
Inferno, which yesterday was the run of the day for my wife and I wasn't today. The ungroomed fanmade was a bit rutted and much more set up than yesterday, so after a couple of trips in and around all of the open stuff at Carinthia, we headed back over to the mainface and lapped Ridge/Meadow until the dropping temps and increasing winds had us calling it a day a bit before 1.
Since we quit, the snow flurries have picked up and the sky has darkend, so I'm quite glad that I'll be up to brave the temps tommorrow.
It's getting better by the day, and as long as the mid-week event stays frozen instead of wet, things could be very good by next weekend, and there's even talk that Thanks Walt is moving quite close to the top of Mountain Ops list! Mmmmm, Sunbrook
Resort: Mount Snow
Conditions: Overcast, temps dropping and winds increasing throughout the day, light snow on a machine groomed/occasional hardpack surface
Report:
Started off with comfortable temps and light winds and a light coating of fresh snow (1/2" or so) on all the terrain that was open the day before. An extra night of grooming made a difference on the hardpack especially for Ridge and also the Upper Canyon/Standard route. Chute was still a firm, fast crusiers paradise, and also on the Northface, since Saturday the snowmaking crew pulled the hoses and set the guns on Freefall and mid morning you could hear the sound of the waterline being charged on Freefall.
Inferno, which yesterday was the run of the day for my wife and I wasn't today. The ungroomed fanmade was a bit rutted and much more set up than yesterday, so after a couple of trips in and around all of the open stuff at Carinthia, we headed back over to the mainface and lapped Ridge/Meadow until the dropping temps and increasing winds had us calling it a day a bit before 1.
Since we quit, the snow flurries have picked up and the sky has darkend, so I'm quite glad that I'll be up to brave the temps tommorrow.
It's getting better by the day, and as long as the mid-week event stays frozen instead of wet, things could be very good by next weekend, and there's even talk that Thanks Walt is moving quite close to the top of Mountain Ops list! Mmmmm, Sunbrook
