Whiteface Mountain 3/17 - 3//18

[catskills]

Date(s) Skied: 3/17/2007 and 3/18/2007

Resort or Ski Area: Whiteface Mountain

Conditions: Powder :beer:
Weather:
20 degrees F
Friday Night 12+ Inches of dry powder
Saturday: Snow flurries all day and overcast
Satruday Night: another couple inches
Sunday: morning overcast/ afternoon sunny

Trip Report: Awesome powder in the mornings both days. Last time I skied Whiteface was 1973 in blue jeans, minus 10 F degrees, and wind. They must have powder all the time here at Whiteface. I got to ski here more often.

 

[ajl50]

They must have powder all the time here at Whiteface. I got to ski here more often.

Nope. Never. Nobody should ski there. It is called iceface for a reason. They actually rent ice skates there for the rougher days.

 

[catskills]

Nope. Never. Nobody should ski there. It is called iceface for a reason. They actually rent ice skates there for the rougher days.

Yeah but this weekend the conditions at Whiteface were epic. Where else on the East coast can you ski 3100+ continuous vertical feet? Anyway it was a great powder weekend at Whiteface.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

The best part of the weekend was when the sun came out and the wind died down Sunday afternoon. We kept doing Upper Cloudspin to Niagara or Lower Skyward. Pow shots everywhere. I'd have some great pics, but my buddy's camera fell out of his pocket and is buried somewhere on the mountain.

 

[ajl50]

Yeah but this weekend the conditions at Whiteface were epic. Where else on the East coast can you ski 3100+ continuous vertical feet? Anyway it was a great powder weekend at Whiteface.

wasn't serious.
use Search funciton and see my deep affection for whiteface.
Greatest mountain in the east and one of the hardest in the country.

 

[AdironRider]

Whiteface is truely awesome and Im super bummed I missed out on the dry fluffy stuff. Cannon on Sat was pure wet cement. Whiteface has had a damn good season this year, best in my 4 years of being a passholder, but the winter of 04-05 was freakin awful. Since then In the last three years major improvements have been made , and the new expansion will be the icing on the cake.

I will say though that now that Ive made it out west, its opened my eyes up to just how easy eastern mtns can really ski. Blue squares here at JHole are steeper than Skyward/niagra/you name it, I kid you not.

 

[catskills]

I will say though that now that Ive made it out west, its opened my eyes up to just how easy eastern mtns can really ski. Blue squares here at JHole are steeper than Skyward/niagra/you name it, I kid you not.

I will just add that a couple of feet of powder can make even JH's Alta 2 look easy. Skiing east coast iHard Pack conditions can be every bit as challenging as JH. When the snow is good it don't mater where you are as long as your not at work. :smash: Whiteface is a great mountain.

I just wish NY State would lease state park land in the Catskills and Dacks to ski areas. With all the mountains in NY state its a shame NY state only has 2 ski areas with vertical over 2000 feet and those are both run by the state/ORDA. But then this has already been discussed.

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

have the Slides at Whiteface been open lately?

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

have the Slides at Whiteface been open lately?

No, not this season. Ski patrol has been in there several times to check nothing yet though. :sad:

 

[2knees]

No, not this season. Ski patrol has been in there several times to check nothing yet though. :sad:

damn, how much snow does it take to open them? Or did the high winds with the 2 big storms scour them.

 

[kingslug]

damn, how much snow does it take to open them? Or did the high winds with the 2 big storms scour them.

If you saw them you would see that they need a lot to be skiable. Truly scary steep. Awesome place.

 

[AdironRider]

I stand by my statement about skiing out west, the east really doesnt compare.

The slides have been skiable for a while now, patrol just acts like babies about it cause if they open em, they have to be skiable enough so Joe Shmoe from Jersey who skis once a year wont die. I know of several people who just hide out in the woods at the summit till after sweep then shoot in, or hike up the auto road.

 

[kcyanks1]

I stand by my statement about skiing out west, the east really doesnt compare.

The slides have been skiable for a while now, patrol just acts like babies about it cause if they open em, they have to be skiable enough so Joe Shmoe from Jersey who skis once a year wont die. I know of several people who just hide out in the woods at the summit till after sweep then shoot in, or hike up the auto road.

Coming from another person who is totally freaked out by some of the terrain out west, I can't agree that the east doesn't provide close to a comparable challenge, at least for anyone but the very best. While it's true that a place like Jackson has inbound, sustained steeps that you can't find in the east, if those trails were so much harder, good-by-eastern standards skiers wouldn't be able to ski them. Yet I'm sure that many here would have no problem doing a decent job with things like Tower 3, Paintbrush, the Alta chutes, and others .. somehow, the east must have trained us well. That doesn't mean all of us are going to jump into S&S (I know I'm not!), but if you take away the really extreme stuff out there (and remember that you were just at the resort generally considered the most challenging on the continent), I think the east holds up better than most who don't ski here would think.