Snow at whiteface

[tjf67]

up to ten and still snowing.

 

[tjf67]

Total out of the storm. 17

 

[gmcunni]

Total out of the storm. 17

did you get to ski it?

 

[tjf67]

I am out of town in meetings. Getting reports from buddies busting my balls. Greek got 32?

 

[gladerider]

Total out of the storm. 17

sweet. hope they leave some for me.

 

[tjf67]

Snow being made on cloud and lookout. Thats all we got. . Skiing great. No lift lines and lots of options.

 

[gladerider]

just got back last nite from WF. The entire mt. is in a great condition. it was snowing fri, sat, sun. yesterday was the only sunny day. each morning started off at around -5 then climbed up to mid teens. lookout is awesome. don't go in the sugar valley glades. not ready yet. it looked so great and i've never been in it so i ducked the ropes yesterday morning. not enough pow yet. there are tree stumps and branchs under the snow that can trip you.

 

[tjf67]

just got back last nite from WF. The entire mt. is in a great condition. it was snowing fri, sat, sun. yesterday was the only sunny day. each morning started off at around -5 then climbed up to mid teens. lookout is awesome. don't go in the sugar valley glades. not ready yet. it looked so great and i've never been in it so i ducked the ropes yesterday morning. not enough pow yet. there are tree stumps and branchs under the snow that can trip you.

Ha yeah those glades still need a lot of work. If you ducked in off of approach those glades are in a lot better shape. Still stuff watch out for but they has been in play for years and dont need as much coverage.

 

[tjf67]

We got nothing out of this storm. Little rain and then it started snowing this morning. very little crust.

Down in Gore today. They received about 6 inches net out of the storm

 

[tjf67]

5 more to the total. Whiteface up to 105 for the year. Thats good for us

 

[gladerider]

tjf, where are you??? we need your updates. thanks dude...

 

[tjf67]

Sorry dude. We been getting a couple inches every other day. Friday night we got 3 or 4. Sat morning it was mint. Opened up the high country glades. They were pretty good Sat,Sunday they were beat up. They have been having problems with the lifts lately. 6 and Lookout chair went down over the weekend. Kids Campus has been off line since last Monday. Hopefully they get them all fixed for the 10 inches we are expecting Tuesday/Wed.
Most everything is skiing good.

If we get a good one this week Hoyts High may open then we are 100%.

 

[gladerider]

thanks for the update. here in the flatlands, we are expecting an ice storm for the tues/wed event, so i'd be interested in finding out what happens up there. one forecast is that WF gets 18 inches. crossing my fingers.....

 

[tjf67]

7 inches so far. Supposed to snow till tomorrow morning. 10 degrees right now.

 

[gladerider]

i think they were calling for 18 inches. so far so good.

 

[j law]

Two questionss - I saw on the WF website that the summit quad is closed today!!! Is that true? Seems that tomorrow could be ideal!

And how long is the drive from Manhattan? Anybody know? Googlemaps (who I never trust) puts the 288 miles at 5 hours and 15 minutes. I can't believe that is possible...

 

[gladerider]

where in manhattan? i am from murray hill, nj. it takes me about 5 hours. for you, prolly the same depending on traffic.i can make it to albany in 2.5~3 hours. which is about the mid point. what was the google direction? google is pretty accurate, but it does not know the traffic. i'd avoid the tappanzee. if i were you, i'd take the gw bridge to 80W -> 17N -> 87N.

 

[j law]

I live right by Union square. I'm now thinking gore only because it looks like it's an hour closer and I have to be back in NYC by 8pm. That's assuming that Gore doesn't get hit by sleet

thanks for the advice...

 

[John W]

JLaw - that 5:15 is dead on with no traffic. Because Whiteface is off of 87 about 20 mins. With weather it can be 7 to 8 hours from midtown. My crew did it once in 5:05. But we left at 9pm and had no weather on the way up... Took 9 hours to get back with sunday afternoon traffice. Gore is a little closer but if whiteface has snow, its UNREAL!

 

[gladerider]

JLaw - that 5:15 is dead on with no traffic. Because Whiteface is off of 87 about 20 mins. With weather it can be 7 to 8 hours from midtown. My crew did it once in 5:05. But we left at 9pm and had no weather on the way up... Took 9 hours to get back with sunday afternoon traffice. Gore is a little closer but if whiteface has snow, its UNREAL!

Yes. I agree. UNREAL!