What's the damage?

[andrec10]

Whatever. I would still much rather be somewhere like sunday river next week than anywhere in Tahoe. 2013 is the driest year on record for the state of California. Ever. You all have snowmaking and as Drjeff points out key areas will rebound quick. Here the skiing is just awful, with no sign in the future of improvement....in fact what little we have is melting a little more everyday. Fuck this place!

Did not realize it was that bad out there! Sorry to hear that!

 

[snoseek]

Did not realize it was that bad out there! Sorry to hear that!

We had a decent storm a few weeks ago but the snow was fluffy and is now consolidated to a thin pack. I saw workers shoveling snow into piles for the groomers to push out onto the trails today....saddest sight ever. Things can change quite fast here though so maybe at some point in January it will start snowing and not be 50 everyday. One thing the last 3 winters has proven to me; when the skiing here sucks, it sucks royally for extended periods of time.

 

[NotEasyBeingGreen]

We're going to put down the money tomorrow and give Stowe a shot, since we've been here since Sat. night. But it is forecasted to be cold as frick the next two days. And when all this slush and the many deep puddles outside my door turn to ice in the next few hours, it's going to be pretty interesting, to say the least. Oh well. Beats working. I'll put up a report tomorrow.

 

[goldsbar]

One thing the last 3 winters has proven to me; when the skiing here sucks, it sucks royally for extended periods of time.

Yeah, but when it's mediocre, it's better than anything here!

 

[yeggous]

We had a decent storm a few weeks ago but the snow was fluffy and is now consolidated to a thin pack. I saw workers shoveling snow into piles for the groomers to push out onto the trails today....saddest sight ever. Things can change quite fast here though so maybe at some point in January it will start snowing and not be 50 everyday. One thing the last 3 winters has proven to me; when the skiing here sucks, it sucks royally for extended periods of time.

I just read that Heavenly had 19 lifts serving 17 trails serving 13 miles. That lift count is crazy, but the open terrain is pretty comparable to what you'll find in the east right now.

 

[snoseek]

I just read that Heavenly had 19 lifts serving 17 trails serving 13 miles. That lift count is crazy, but the open terrain is pretty comparable to what you'll find in the east right now.

Yeah in maybe 3 days your skiing will be miles better than Heavenly. The real number is acerage.....and that would be 138 acres out of 4800. People fly in from all over the world this week and those 19 lifts will stack them onto a trail that's so packed it'll make early season Killington seem not so bad. I would rather wait in a line to go up than down.

 

[snoseek]

Yeah, but when it's mediocre, it's better than anything here!

The last time we had better skiing than the east coast was January of last year....maybe early February at certain locations. Remember it didn't snow after Christmas at all last year. We are due

 

[drjeff]

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From mount snow on 12/22

Like I said in my earlier post specifically about Mount Snow, I was not a cheerleader, but 100% honest - that trail, the mid section of Exhibition hasn't had any snowmaking on it yet this year (the had moved portable fan guns to it last week as a next on the list pre positioning before the warm air arrived) - that's what basically all the natural snow terrain there looked like yesterday PM. The previously open snowmaking terrain, while there were some thin + bare spots was much better

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[Cannonball]

We had a start to the season that was well ahead of schedule. I'm going to assume (hope) that this is our January thaw, also ahead of schedule. That sets us up for a nice Jan-Mar. For now I'm ignoring what this theory means for late March...

 

[crank]

We had a start to the season that was well ahead of schedule. I'm going to assume (hope) that this is our January thaw, also ahead of schedule. That sets us up for a nice Jan-Mar. For now I'm ignoring what this theory means for late March...

Sorry but this is just the Post Christmas thaw come a week early. Still to come: The January thaw, the later in January thaw, the mid February thaw and the early March thaw... let's see, did I miss anything?

 

[SIKSKIER]

Tahoe will get its snow and when you do it will come in 3-6 foot dumps,especially towrds March.Then all of us in the NE will be saying F this place.

 

[C-Rex]

Tahoe will get its snow and when you do it will come in 3-6 foot dumps,especially towrds March.Then all of us in the NE will be saying F this place.

Exactly. Tahoe locals whine about no snow in December and then get 30 feet from Feb through April. A-holes.

 

[4aprice]

The snow guns are on (at least here locally - PA) From what I hear cold weather is in the pipeline. The recovery has begun.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Rowsdower]

I'm really surprised how well the slopes held up. I'm at my parents for the holidays and even little local Bear Creek isn't showing any brown spots. Guns are on up in the Poconos as well. Camelback is making snow and Hunter is going full tilt, so it looks like the recovery is well under way.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Check out this Attitash webcam shot

 

[Rowsdower]

So shiny.

 

[skifree]

somehow I would find my way into that shiny area

 

[snoseek]

Exactly. Tahoe locals whine about no snow in December and then get 30 feet from Feb through April. A-holes.

We got zero snow in that time frame last year....none. The year before there was not a flake on the ground till January 20th, not even a flurry. This drought is very real and affecting more than just skiers, again 2103 was the driest year EVER recorded. Sure do hope you're right about that 30 feet of snow though! And yes, I know it will come, it always does.

 

[Tin]

Day looks to pick up.and inch or so daily. Not much but it will add up.

 

[MadMadWorld]

It's one of those days where if you fell you would slide for a loooooong ways