Stowe 3/18/06 night skiing-powder

[loafer89]

Area skied: Stowe

Date skied: March 18th, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:00pm

Surface conditions: powder, loose powder, icy spots.

My son and I just finished some really nice night skiing at Stowe. We arrived at the Midway Base lodge to a heavy snowfall with 3" on the ground.

Warren only took one run, but Perry Merrill to Gondolier is a very long run. It was challenging in spots as Perry Merrill had about 6" of wind blown powder on top of rock hard moguls on skiers left.

I did three more runs by myself and there was at least 4" of snow by the time we left at 9:30pm.
It was snowing so hard for the last run that I got in fresh tracks on nearly every part of the run.

Wind is still an issue and the snow at Cliff House was blown away by the wind exposing boilerplate for the first few 100 feet of Perry Merrill.

Their is nearly no new snow in Stowe village and only a dusting here in Waterbury. But it was cool to have fresh powder tracks at night.

Warren skiing Perry Merrill in a heavy snowfall:

Powder on Gondolier:

 

[loafer89]

There is about 3-4" of new snow outside our hotel this morning, whivh means even more in the mountains.

Should be a powder day today, we will probably ski at Bolton for fresh tracks.

Get up here for great snow today.

Kevin

 

[loafer89]

8-11" new at Bolton, probably even more at Stowe and Jay.

 

[riverc0il]

wow, 8-11" damn! jay is reporting 2-4". i am resting my elbow today and heading back to jay tomorrow. they are forecasting 10"+ on their web site by monday morning. i have heard conservative forecasts for at least 4-6" by monday, so looks like tomorrow will be the better day any ways. but that is impressive numbers from bolton! you picked a fine weekend to sample northern VT this season loafer!

 

[loafer89]

There is 4" here at the hotel and Stowe got 4" last night, so that sounds like a reasonable total.

We are on our way up right now, I will report later.

 

[loafer89]

Their claims are true as there is AT LEAST 8-10" of fluff powder on the ground!!!!!!!!!!

 

[loafer89]

great skiing with powder everywhere lots of first tracks, still snowing.

 

[thetrailboss]

Did they groom before the night skiing? I think that they used to....Always wanted to do the night skiing there. I hear that it is good.

 

[loafer89]

I really could not tell if it was groomed as it was snowing so damn hard, but the night skiing was nice and Perry Merrill-Gondolier make a long night skiing run. There where rock hard moguls down skiers left on Gondolier that nobody made tracks on, until I did.
They where more fun with 4-5" of powder on top I am sure than not.

The price was reasonable at $24 for a night ticket good from 4-9pm. Last night was the last night of the season for Stowe.

 

[riverc0il]

damn, for $24 i should have been checking stowe out! leave work just over an hour and a half early and get in four hours of skiing on a gondi. that wouldn't be a bad idea for next year!

 

[loafer89]

It's a better idea than night skiing at Bolton as the night skiing terrain has a consistent pitch to it.

Is the trail with the icefall under the gondola ever skiable?

 

[riverc0il]

plus there are more verts at mansfield and it's a gondi. not too mention it is slightly closer to me. the waterfall is listed as an official trail so i guess it does open. i have seen some video of folks hucking the waterfall, pretty impressive stuff.