mount snow 3/20

[arik]

Sunny, slushy, and lots of bumps everywhere, even the groomed trails had soft little bumps by the afternoon. I had fun, my partner is not used to soft snow (he likes to carve on hardpack and ice) so he struggled a bit in the heavy slush. No crowds no lines but parking lot at Carinthia was full.

 

[skijay]

I was there Saturday also. I came up late at around 12 noon and parked in the mud bog in Carinthia's lower back lot. The lodge at the main mountain was busy but there were hardly any lift lines. Do you know what happened at the GSE lift around 3pm? It was running but nobody was loading on it and a crowd of people were lining up. We took the Summit Local and by the time we got near the summit we could see people on the lift a way back.

 

[arik]

Didn't notice that, was on TNF at 3. I did meet some guy who was skiing 3/20 on a complementary pass due to having been evacuated off a broken lift earlier in the season. He said it was his second time being evac'd off a chair, other time was ski patrol practice at another hill. I was like, "uh, can you keep your distance..."

 

[Glenn]

Heard Saturday was mega sunny! We went skiing on Sunday. It wasn't as sunny, but turned out to be a great day. The clouds helped keep things from turning entirely to mush.

 

[arik]

still nice bumps on sunday?

 

[KevinF]

still nice bumps on sunday?

I was at Mt. Snow all weekend. It was cool-ish and intermittent cloudy on Sunday morning, so it took a while for the bumps to soften up on Sunday, but they finally did. I was doing laps on Challenger and Jaws all afternoon.

 

[MommaBear]

My husband only had 1/2 day to ski Sunday and the bumps on NF weren't softening fast enough. He found lapping upper exhibition, to ledge, to rollercoaster/overbrook (can't remember which over there) gave him a nice run of bumps to fill the need.

 

[Euler]

My husband only had 1/2 day to ski Sunday and the bumps on NF weren't softening fast enough. He found lapping upper exhibition, to ledge, to rollercoaster/overbrook (can't remember which over there) gave him a nice run of bumps to fill the need.

That's a heck of a bump run...from the summit to the base!

 

[drjeff]

Today (Monday) did not suck either - rain held off until about lunchtime - and aside from Euler and a bunch of PSIA groups all the sweet, soft snow and bumps were pretty much all mine and my wifes! Even got my 6 year old daughter her 1st run down Ripcord today! Her reply at the bottom "Daddy, that was easy

 

[Euler]

Today (Monday) did not suck either - rain held off until about lunchtime - and aside from Euler and a bunch of PSIA groups all the sweet, soft snow and bumps were pretty much all mine and my wifes! Even got my 6 year old daughter her 1st run down Ripcord today! Her reply at the bottom "Daddy, that was easy

Nice meetin' ya Doc! It was HOT out there Monday...there was osme sort of inversion going on and it was strange feeling the temperature rise as I rode up on the chair. The amount of snow up there is phenomenal. Snowmaking trails haf edge to edge coverage several FEET deep. Natural trails on the North Face, like Olympic and Jaws were not showing any bare spots. Natural trails on the main face are going fast. Hop and Ledge are on their last legs I'd say. Today's rain might be the end of those trails.

It's amazing how many different tactics and techniques one must develop to ski well in differennt conditions. Monday was a day for me to practice my hop turns as the snow was really grabby. On Beartrap, Jaws, and Pat's Pitch, especially I found myself often needing to muscle my skis right out of the snow to get them to come around.

Bumps on middle Exhibition were hero bumps for me Monday...Usually bumps are a matter of learning and survibal for me, but on this stretch I was able to open up and get a little taste of this thig you guys call the "zipper line" FUN!