Mt. Snow 1/5/14

[reefer]

Half-heartedly writing a report because who knows how things will look after today, anyway:
Had to wait for Sunday and the leftovers from the storm. Weather was a lot nicer than expected, sunny, calm, and about 30 degrees most of the day.
DoubleEject and I were a little leery of hitting Mt. Snow on “youth pay their age” day. Didn’t get to the hill until 8:30 and things were already pretty busy. Decided to do a first – pay for VIP parking. Worth every penny today. Got a great spot and ready to go in fifteen minutes. Already a 20 minute wait on the Bluebird, opted for the ski-on Summit Express. Decided to ski Ledge to the base again. Was able to ski right onto the Summit Express again. Hit Uncles. Took the Sundance lift a few times up to Hop, Fantastics (sketchy), South Bowl, etc…….
Decided to go over to Bear Trap in the sun. Bumps are forming. Appears to be a good base there. On our third lap noticed a mass exodus form the Sunbrook chair. Luckily we came in from skiers left of the coral. The Sunbrook Quad was down and everyone was heading towards us.
Not sure what happened there but it didn’t look promising. The Bear Trap liftline was now a mess as we looked back from the top. Time to get out of Dodge……….
Headed to the base and things were busy, even the Summit Express had a little wait. Decided on the Station Tap Room. Had a decent lunch and a couple good Mount Snow Ales brewed by Harpoon.
Was back out at noon. Took a minute to get on the Summit Express. Headed over to the North Face. Both lifts running with no lines. Stayed there all afternoon.
The natural trails were all bumped but showing wear and I’m sure will all be closed after today, déjà vu from last time I was here.
Glad we got it while it was good again. Real good day at Mt. Snow. Most of the “kids” were skiing the greens, (Long John was a death trap) so overall the “pay your age” didn’t affect us much. Mount Snow appeared to have a good day…………………………………..


Olympic:




Looking up Olympic:




Plummet - soft bumps with a hay effect:






Lot of snow snakes in the woods still, picked our way down.....






Bumps getting there on Bear Trap.

 

[WoodCore]

Nice pics!

 

[skifree]

buddy skiing with me yesterday received a nice core shot on narrow gauge . hope it makes it through surgery

 

[drjeff]

I'm beginning to dislike 15" snowstorms at Mount Snow this year!!!! A few weeks ago we got 15" on a Sunday and then the following weekend the pre- Christmas blow torch hit! Then 15" falls last Thursday and last nights/this mornings rain and warmth hits! Argh!! My son and I watched the radar for a lull this morning as we listened to the rain pelt down on the windows. The thermometer on my deck was reading 42/43 (only 50+ degrees warmer than it was 48hrs earlier!!) and most of Mount Snow was obscured in clouds + fog.

About 10:45 there was a "less wet" looking radar window so we booted up and gore-texed ourselves and went across the street fair some turns (thank god for the dryness of the Bluebird!!)

From the 2 runs we took today and what I skied (and Reefer's pics show) yesterday most if not all the natural snow terrain is done until we get another 6-10" or so. Its not the total melt out like the blow torch of a few weeks ago, but damage was done

The good thing is that when we got off the hill about 11:30 the change over to snow had occurred at the summit and when I left about 1 it was 28 and dropping and snowing all the way down to the base. Bring on the arctic air and let the resurfacing begin!!

Mother nature is a bit bipolar this season for sure!!

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[laxski]

I'm glad the naturals were not a total melt-out.I was there for that First 15"snow skiing was great then back up following week for the total natural snow melt off. I won't be back up for 2 weeks hope the woods and naturals are all in play.

 

[Newpylong]

Sweet pics. Olympic looking choice as always. Funny how people won't go to the Summit Ex. Their loss, our win!

 

[Glenn]

We went out Saturday. Some of the natural trails were a bit grassy in spots. The woods off Olympic skied fairly well. It was really busy though. And a lot of people couldn't load the Grand Summit; it stopped a lot. Got in a good number of runs on a nice day though.

This rain is getting annoying.