Mount Snow 2-22-09

[drjeff]

Date: 2-22-09

Resort: Mount Snow

Conditions: Snowing by 9:30 continuing all day with 6-8" down by last chair, LITTLE/NO WIND Temps in the mid 20's/low 30's, light crowds

Report: This one will likely go down in the books as one of my top 2 or 3 of the year. The clouds started rolling down the mountain around 7:30 with the first flakes starting by 9:30 - scored a couple of sweet machine groomed cord high speed GS crusiers pre-snow down Overbrook, Canyon and Plummet along with a nice bumper down Challenger. Followed that up with a pre-snow cruise through Sunbrook via Moonwalk(decent on skier's right) to Little Dipper to Big Dipper then up Bear Trap and back to the base area to watch my youngest take a few runs down the magic carpet. The snow had started to fall by then, and my wife and I decided to take an extended coffee/water/food break around 10:30 to let some accumulation start.

Back onto the hill by about 11:30 with 2 to 3" of snow down and still snowing at a good clip. We started lapping the Grand Summit Express with freshies on Hop, Uncles, South Bowl, Upper Canyon to One More Time to The Boonies, Snowdance, Overbrook, then back up top to hit a now very nicely filled in Sunbrook - Spent from about 1:30 until almost 3 in Sunbrook lapping Little Dipper to Big Dipper and Moonwalk to Little Dipper to Big Dipper with our tracks being close to filled in each run back to the Main Face when Sunbrook/Bear Trap closed, then a sweet run down Upper Ledge to Ledge to Standard after which we picked up the older kid from Snow Camp and took 1 more run down One More Time to The Boonies with my daughter having a blast in the trees of the Boonies

Great Day, and as I type this around 9:30 PM, around 8" at my place, still some light snow coming down, and while the breeze has come up, it's maybe blowing a steady 10-15 with some slightly higher gusts - nothing wind wise like friday when my whole house was practically shaking with each passing gust.

Can't wait for 1st chair tommorrow AM

 

[Glenn]

Jeff I'm surprised we didn't ru into eachother today!

Mountain was empty today...especially after noon. Crowds were so sparce, they shut down a few of the fixed grip lifts after lunch.

Conditions were awesome once the snow started! Fresh snow + light crowds: the win. All trails had great snow, especially to the sides of the trails. Plumet was an awesome run today. Thanks Walt, One More Time and Snowdance all delivered.

Posting via BB from the Deerfield Valley Inn. Looking forward to some fressh tracks tomorrow.

Jeff, I'll look for the Steelers coat. ; ).

 

[MommaBear]

Sounds like a great day! My family arrived back here in CT this evening tired and happy from the weekend. Talked to my husband by phone last night to tell him the weather on the way and tried to talk him into just staying up there tonight and enjoying the snow tomorrow too...AND score big points with the boys by letting them skip school for the day. But, the big guy just won't miss work. Doesn't help they are already down a man, but still...this kind of snow doesn't happen very often!

Sorry I missed it. But, its tax season and somebody has to pay for all this skiing! :-D

Take a run for me tomorrow Dr. Jeff? Just remember no hard pole plants with the right hand...my broken finger is still on the mend. :wink:

 

[drjeff]

Jeff I'm surprised we didn't ru into eachother today!

Mountain was empty today...especially after noon. Crowds were so sparce, they shut down a few of the fixed grip lifts after lunch.

Conditions were awesome once the snow started! Fresh snow + light crowds: the win. All trails had great snow, especially to the sides of the trails. Plumet was an awesome run today. Thanks Walt, One More Time and Snowdance all delivered.

Posting via BB from the Deerfield Valley Inn. Looking forward to some fressh tracks tomorrow.

Jeff, I'll look for the Steelers coat. ; ).

Glenn, I was looking for you when me and the wife were in the line for the Grand Summit, other than that we were just skiing right onto Sunbrook and Canyon all afternoon. Me and my wife will be avoiding the groomers from 9 until probably 1ish tommorrow

 

[drjeff]

Sounds like a great day! My family arrived back here in CT this evening tired and happy from the weekend. Talked to my husband by phone last night to tell him the weather on the way and tried to talk him into just staying up there tonight and enjoying the snow tomorrow too...AND score big points with the boys by letting them skip school for the day. But, the big guy just won't miss work. Doesn't help they are already down a man, but still...this kind of snow doesn't happen very often!

Sorry I missed it. But, its tax season and somebody has to pay for all this skiing! :-D

Take a run for me tomorrow Dr. Jeff? Just remember no hard pole plants with the right hand...my broken finger is still on the mend. :wink:

No problem on both accounts, especially the pole plant thing as there isn't too many hard surfaces left around the mountain to make a pole plant into!

 

[Ballistic]

What an awesome day it was yesterday. It was my second trip to Mt. Snow this year, and talk about powder powder powder. I pretty much snowboarded the whole mountain with my friend from 9-4 with a 30 min lunch, and never really had any waits at the lifts, especially on the North Face. Besides dealing with snowed up goggles, 'twas a perfect day to enjoy a good snow shower.

 

[RISkier]

Ice Queen and I were there as well. Had a terrific day. I struggle to read trail maps without my glasses (yes I'm old) so I usually don't pay too much attention to trail names unless I'm trying to get to a specific location. We booted up in the Sundance Lodge and got on the slopes around 8:30. Rode that lift then did a few laps off the Summit Quad, then to the North Face, then into the Sunbrook area for a while, and finally down to the main lodge for lunch around 1:15. Spent most of the rest of the afternoon running laps off the Canyon Quad which had virtually no lift line. I know there was a lot of stuff we didn't hit but conditions everywhere were really good.

 

[MommaBear]

Soooo?? How was my run today? ;-)

 

[skijay]

I was there Saturday and Sunday. Quite the contrast between the two days. We were on the slopes around 10am on Sunday. I was suppose to do the teach me to ski on Saturday, but the crowds frightened her. She decided that Sunday she would do it since the crowds would thin out. We picked up rentals at the $14.95 place on Rt 100. Since this was her second time ever on skis I decided to go to the main lodge instead of Sundance so we could do the Discovery triple. I even opted for preferred parking at $15 - and it was well worth it. When we did make it to Sundance she was happy with the Season's double. When she could not see the top of the Tumbleweed lift and the slight drop, she was content on Seasons. I was kind of bummed that I only got to ride one time on the Sundance lift yesterday.

I have to say I was quite impressed with Mount Snow and she was as well. It's not the big things, but the little things that made the weekend. It started with the free bare naked granola being handed out on Saturday to the staff just being friendly and cordial while she was trying to find where to eat on Saturday and how to find the shuttle. They even walked her to the shuttle!

The fact that for $25 the "learning area" ticket actually gives you a lot of area to ski in. She loved the fact that she went all the way from the "summit" of the Discovery lift to the base on Sundance. I do not think she caught on that cross country skiing is not what most people get excited about. She felt she did a lot of skiing. I can not wait to March when we go back and she goes to the summit.

Normally I do not eat at the mountain. But we did at the main lodge and just had a chicken ceaser wraps. Again, impressed. The other thing she liked is that my pass could keep buying things! I swiped it for the ticket and for lunch. I did have about $100 or more on it, so I used some of it.

Even though I did not get the chance to go to the summit and play, I think today was a top 10 day for me. She likes to ski & likes it here!

 

[Glenn]

Glenn, I was looking for you when me and the wife were in the line for the Grand Summit, other than that we were just skiing right onto Sunbrook and Canyon all afternoon. Me and my wife will be avoiding the groomers from 9 until probably 1ish tommorrow

I looked for you yesterday as well! I thought I saw you in line at the Nitro lift...but the guy had a day pass on his jacket. Man, yesterday was an awesome day. 8)

 

[drjeff]

I looked for you yesterday as well! I thought I saw you in line at the Nitro lift...but the guy had a day pass on his jacket. Man, yesterday was an awesome day. 8)

Never made it down to Nitro yesterday. I had plans to, but then I went down the Summit Local liftline and lost all interest in skiing anything else

 

[Glenn]

Never made it down to Nitro yesterday. I had plans to, but then I went down the Summit Local liftline and lost all interest in skiing anything else

The lower part of Ego Alley delivered...even later in the afternoon. I'm kicking myself for not trying that entire run earlier in the AM.