Stratton 12/15

[xlr8r]

Date 12/15/13
Conditions Powder (19")

So the snow gods delivered and woke up to 15" of new snow (Stratton claimed 19" total by the end of the storm). Did not make first chair but was on AMEX at 8:35. Snow was deep and dense, making it very tough to ski completely untraked lines of more than 12" of new snow. Upper mountain became moguls very fast, and somewhat regretfully my body and legs were just not in good enough shape to ski them much (I wish I was skiing as good as I typically do in Feb and March). After completely wearing my legs out after only a few runs, I mostly stuck to Amex on the more low angle trails for the second half of the day (the short trails skiers left of the gondola off of Amex skied nice and easy in the afternoon, and were still relatively untouched or unfound by others. called it a day at 1:30 after 22 runs to beat the traffic. Mountain should be in excellent shape this week. Low angle glades were open, I do not know where their harder glades are so I did not see if the were open or not.

 

[billski]

Thanks - that's a great report. That snow is going to make awesome base for the season. One more storm and I'm sure everything will be open.

 

[xlr8r]

Yeah, everything seemed to be skiable, and a lot more trails would be open at other mountains that have a more relaxed attitude with trail openings. Stratton just seems to want to put enough snowmaking on each trail to groom it out before opening. So now they are at least 60-70% of their trails open, and it could be 90% plus by this weekend.